1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire
1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire was a temporary name used for the AM sister station of The Pulse of West Yorkshire.[1]
History[edit]
The station began life as Pennine Radio which was part of the Yorkshire Radio Network, but when it split its AM and FM frequencies, the medium wave licence became Classic Gold. Following a take over it was then relaunched as Great Yorkshire Radio, and then Great Yorkshire Gold.
In 1997, it was decided that regional Great Yorkshire Gold would close, and be replaced by a new easy-listening pop music station called Magic and promotional trailers for the new station began running across all three licenses in the network, despite the fact that this would not be the case in West Yorkshire, where negotiations were underway to take GWR's Classic Gold service. Unhappy with the confusion, bosses in Bradford decided to create an emergency local service, hence the name 1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire, which ran for the month between the ending of Great Yorkshire Gold and the start of the simulcast of Classic Gold.
The station later became West Yorkshire's Big AM, Pennine's Big AM, West Yorkshire's Classic Gold, Pulse Classic Gold and Pulse 2.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Aircheck UK". Archived from the original on 22 October 2009. Unknown parameter
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