The new local radio for Southend-on-Sea launched this morning. The station broadcasts on 105.1FM, from studios next to the Adventure Island Theme Park, close to Southend Pier.
The new station is staffed by a number of names from former Southend-based radio station Essex FM, including Mike Porter, Tracie Young, Ben Payne, Tracy Cooper, Nick Hull and Adrian Fox.
With the slogan “Playing Just Great Songs”, the station went live on Friday the 28th of March 2008, following weeks of test transmissions consisting of the sound of waves sloshing against the shore.
The station kicked off at 8am, with breakfast show presenter Mike Porter and newsman Nick Hull. In the first link, Mike told listeners that this morning, the “colour of adrenaline is brown”, played a station jingle, remarked that the toilet roll holder in their new building only dispenses one sheet of toilet paper at a time, before kicking off with the first song: Chris Rea’s On The Beach.
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March 31st, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I’m sorry but its still a load of crap no different from bbc essex essex radio essex fm
April 1st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
peter canvey, it,s a lot different to essex fm/bbc essex as it don,t play the same music over and over just good music
May 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Just another publicity stunt for phill millers playground nothing to do with radio just another ruse to get you into his playground and spend money.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
love the station! good and varied selection of music…presenters interact well hence good spontanious humour. Brilliant news coverage !!! Keep up the good work!
Trisha Link
May 24th, 2009 at 6:59 am
What a great station this is. Full of news and information for the area.The music mix is quite good as well.Iv been listening from when they started and have found it a radio station I listen to most.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:48 am
what a pity, as one of the anonymous commentators has said it crap just like the rest of the local stations.they all go down this safe lasy form of radio,they must send the same box of records(downloads) round to each station and to me its an outright lie when they say if you want to hear the same records over and over again your tuned to the wrong station,they just mix them up in a different order the following week and throw the odd new one in
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Listened to the station for the 1st time today,very impressed! A good selection of chat and varied music. What I would describe as an easy listening station. Well done Southend Radio! keep up the good work. M.Binstead