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Jackie's back in business: Dave Owen.(Radio Insider)
Programme controller, Radio Jackie South West London's legendary pirate station Radio Jackie served the area from 1969 until it was closed down by the regulatory authorities in 1985. It was the training ground for many popular broadcasters including Radio One's Dave Pearce and hypnotist Paul McKenna.
Radio Jackie campaigned for the legal right to broadcast for many years, but was frustrated by the Radio Authority's award of the licence for South West London to Thames FM in 1996. But Thames FM's reach of less than 1% contributed to financial problems.
In March of 2003, the original Radio Jackie management team completed the purchase of Thames FM, which was rebranded as Radio Jackie seven months later and has since won the approval of the Radio Authority's successor Ofcom to continue broadcasting until at least 2009.
Dave Owen, a DJ on the 1969 Radio Jackie who has since built up a wealth of radio ...
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...did the pirate station and blackmailed him into letting me work with him. Then we ran one from college. 'I was also on Radio Jackie, a pirate station in south-west London. At that time there wasn't much choice of radio stations and we were playing...
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...Koons Garcia with Maude Barlow and many other Canadian critics, and heard the war correspondent in Iraq for National Public Radio, Jackie Lyden, speak about the dishonest and manipulated coverage of that conflict. Then I went to a full-house viewing of a...
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...http://www.bloodwatermission.com/, or http://www.globalwaterchallenge.org/ CONTACT: Print, TV, Talk Radio, Jackie Marushka for Jars of Clay, +1-615-261-6500, or pr@pmgsonybmg.com Web site: http://www.globalwaterchallenge...
