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PLYMOUTH SOUND
At 6am on Monday May 19th 1975 a 9-years-old Plymouth school boy by the name of Master Andrew Knight launched Britain's 11th commercial radio station, Plymouth Sound. Although the station expected teething troubles, everything went smoothly. [1] It was founded jointly by Mr Bob Hussell, a member of a well-known Plymouth business family, and Mr David Bassett. The first programme was "Sunrise Sound", a four-hour breakfast show in which Mr Colin Bower presented music, news, traffic information, local topics and a special link-up with Radio Swansea. This was followed by "Phone Forum", with Mr David Bassett, and "Louise Churchill's Tradio", described as an 'on the air market'. [1] Other names associated with the radio station were Mr Mike Allen; Mr Malcolm Carroll, head of news; Mr John Coates; Mr Chris A'Court; Mr Ian Calvert; Mr Peter Greig; Miss Carmella McKenzie; Mr Brian Measures; Mr Gordon Sparks. On March 23rd 2009 Plymouth Sound became part of Heart FM, a national radio station owned by Global Radio. Sources:
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