Radio Aire Archive - Radio Aire Archive 1987

Radio Aire 1987 - 1990

In 1987 Radio Aire introduced a fresh new logo and jingle package, produced by MMI (Standard Sound). The station started to play more music, with a mix of songs from the pop charts, together with the best tunes from the previous 2 decades. The station strapline was still 'The County's Number One' and the Bill Mitchell voice overs continued to be used, although the presenters had new name checks with 'acapella' and 'shout' idents as well.

Radio Aire 1987 - Sound of the Station

Radio Aire 1987 - Sound of the Station.mp3

The schedule from 1987 was...

06:00 Ross Dickinson

09:00 Jon Hammond

12:00 Ray Stroud

15:00 Peter Tait

17:30 Radio Aire Reports

18:00 Non-Stop Top 20

19:00 Carl Kingston

21:00 (Mon) Mikey Dreadlocks

22:00 James Whale

02:00 Paul Stead

In 1987, Ross Dickinson returned from Pennine Radio to present the Breakfast Show, while James Whale moved back to his famous Late Night Phone-in.

Weekend & extra presenters included Mickey Laing, Bob Preedy, Adrian Greene, Keri Jones, Barry Glanville and Gerry Raynor with his Fabulous Fifties programme. Networked presenters included Paul Gambaccini and David Jensen.

The station had a 30 minute news programme named 'Radio Aire Reports' at 5:30pm on weeknights. A 15 minute lunchtime edition of the programme at 12:45pm was later added to the schedule. The programmes were usually presented by Christa Ackroyd, John Shires or Clive Settle.

Radio Aire also covered local sporting fixtures on their specialist programme, Sportstime. Broadcast on Saturday afternoons, it was covered by various presenters such as Peter Hutton and Paul Stead.

During this period, Radio Aire held many frequent party nights, which proved to be very successful:

Carl Kingston and Mickey Laing hosted 'Soul Connection Nights', featuring artists such as Adeva and Steve Silk Hurley'.

Peter Tait and Ray Stroud hosted 'Solid Gold Party Nights', featuring older acts such as The Three Degrees, Odyssey, Bobby Vee and Mud.

1987 Radio Aire Jingles

1987 Radio Aire Jingle Montage.mp3

Radio Aire Reports Theme

Radio Aire Reports Theme.mp3

Radio Aire Sportstime Theme

Radio Aire Sportstime Theme.mp3

1987 Presenter Profiles

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Ross Dickinson Air Check

Ross Dickinson Air Check.mp3

Jon Hammond Air Check

Jon Hammond Air Check.mp3

Ray Stroud Air Check

Ray Stroud Air Check 1.mp3

Peter Tait Air Check

Peter Tait Air Check 1.mp3

Carl Kingston Air Check

Carl Kingston Air Check.mp3

James Whale Air Check

James Whale Air Check 1.mp3

Paul Stead Air Check

Paul Stead Air Check.mp3

Mickey Laing Air Check

Mickey Laing Air Check.mp3

Radio Aire in 1988 / 1989

In 1988 Peter Tait took over Breakfast and Ross Dickinson moved to Drive, while Overnights was split into 2 shows presented by Adrian Greene and Paul Stead. Later in the year, new presenters Gary Rogers and Andy Siddell joined the weekend schedule.

Also a new classical music programme hosted by Carl Gresham was added to the schedule on Sunday evenings, replacing Gerry Raynor’s Fabulous Fifties show.

There was little change to the schedule in 1989, except for the arrival of Duncan Larkin, who hosted the late show on a weekend and to cover James Whale in his absence.

The schedule from mid 1988 was....

06:00 Peter Tait

09:00 Ray Stroud

12:45 Radio Aire Reports

13:00 Jon Hammond (Paul Stead from 1989)

15:00 Ross Dickinson

17:30 Radio Aire Reports

18:00 Chart Attack

19:00 Carl Kingston

21:00 (Mon) Mikey Dreadlocks

22:00 James Whale

01:00 Steve Warren