Sound clips from the station’s launch
A former DJ has started an online archive of clips from the early years of south Yorkshire’s main commercial radio station, Hallam FM.
You can listen to 1970s audio samples of the station known back then as Radio Hallam at soundboard.com.
I’m too young to remember Hallam in the seventies, but if you listen to some of the clips then you’ll soon realise how different the station sounded back then. When it launched, it appeared to have had the feel of a community radio station with a broad range of music and speech programmes. This contrasts starkly with the homogenised station we hear in 2010 that plays the same handful of records all day long.
If anyone has any more old tapes of the station then I’m sure the archiver Frank Carpenter would be pleased to hear from you. Perhaps at some stage it will be expanded to also include some clips from the the 1980s and 1990s?
In the meantime there are some more clips and jingles to be heard on radiohallam.co.uk. This site is run by another former Hallam FM DJ, and also the person behind internet radio station Radio 2XS, Jeff Cooper.
A.J.Wright
/ 12 September, 2010Hi!
I an given to understand that some years ago, you had a DJ named Roger Kirk working at Hallam Radio. I am interested in obtaining photographs and sound clips for sentimental reasons – ie non-commercial use. I have no idea when he worked at Hallam (maybe it was the eighties)as the only time I visited the studio he worked at Pennine Radio in Bradford in 1977. Brian Cooke can vouch for my authenticity as he knows Roger’s history. Roger died in 2001. I was Roger’s brother.
With Best Wishes, Alan.
Sheffield blog
/ 14 September, 2010Hi Alan, I think Roger was at Hallam FM in the early 90s, until early 1994. A bit more information is here, along with the photo I have:
http://sheffieldblog.com/2008/05/27/hallam-fm-radio-phone-ins-in-the-1990s/
I’d contact Hallam directly to ask if they have anything in the archives. You could also try DJ Jeff Cooper (studio@radio2xs.com) who was at Hallam in the 90s. He now runs Radio 2XS.