Ohh childhood memories... Sky Radio was carried on the analogue Videotron cable TV network around Southampton UK. The splitter box on the wall had 2x coax outputs. You could have 2x Jerrold cable boxes or 1x cable box and feed the other coax to an FM tuner to get all the national and local stations plus (i think) an FM Stereo feed of Sky Movies and the Dutch Sky Radio station. Mum has it on just for the music.
I love these jingles! Always had it on via Sky One Astra Satellite Channel 8 11.318 GHz / V polarisation, Stereo 7.38 / 7.56 MHz piped thru my stereo from my Nokia stereo satellite receiver and 80cm Astra dish equipped with genuine Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction, it sounded fantastic!
I used to make tapes of Sky Radio through the hifi system and loved the jingles and music, a lot of it apart from the news on the hour was in English! I used Maxell UDI, BASF Chromdioxid Super II, TDK SA and Realistic Supertape / Radio Shack Concertape C-120 cassettes to make the recordings and the satellite receiver's Wegener 🐼 One noise reduction circuit removed all the hiss and made it so good I didn't need to use Dolby B or C noise reduction at all. The tape deck did automatically engage Dolby HX Pro noise reduction but it just kept it good without being detrimental to the recordings.
I remember, somewhere in the beginning of the 1990-s, or even before (we got our cable tv network about 1987), we had this Sky Radio in our radio channels. I remember this was completely automatic radio station - only somewhere in the weekend was some kind of program in air where one men read something, probably letters from listeners or just poems etc. All other was 24/7 only music 3...4 songs and signature and so on. I also remember that songs after signature where a little predictable and signatures after certain songs were also predictable after listening this program for hours and hours every day. I also very liked that songs started and ended in carefully selected points because a lot of these songs otherwise had boring beginnings and ends. I do not know how was this program made in these early years, this would be great to know! There were no such computers in this time, we have today. But I believe this was some kind of multi disk CD jukebox driven by some kind of early and primitive computer system. I remember seen something in our local radio station in 1995. And listening these singles here, I can tell this is later time I remember. Most of my memories are from time before they put this "100.7 FM" into these singles. Greetings from Estonia.
Thanks for your comment. I saw it just now. On TH-cam there's a video of Sky Radio in 1988. Maybe you'd like to check it out: th-cam.com/video/nzNK0Ui-cqI/w-d-xo.html The poet program was called Candlelight, the host was Jan van Veen. You can see him in another video, after 25 seconds: th-cam.com/video/FkHngJPWNkI/w-d-xo.html Jan van Veen started his radio career back in 1964, according to Wikipedia. Candlelight was already on the radio on other stations before commercial radio had started.
I love this classic sky radio dutch 1999❤❤❤🎉
Eindelijk gevonden en ze staan sinds een aantal jaar gewoon op TH-cam ❤
Rowin, super bedankt! Ik zoek al 15 jaar naar de classic Sky Radio jingles!
This sounds completely different than today's jingles! 😂
At skyradio evolution 🎉 1996 - 2023
How I remember as a kid, listening to Skyradio during the 90's. It's a Throughback!
Thank you for sharing this!
Ohh childhood memories... Sky Radio was carried on the analogue Videotron cable TV network around Southampton UK. The splitter box on the wall had 2x coax outputs. You could have 2x Jerrold cable boxes or 1x cable box and feed the other coax to an FM tuner to get all the national and local stations plus (i think) an FM Stereo feed of Sky Movies and the Dutch Sky Radio station. Mum has it on just for the music.
I love these jingles! Always had it on via Sky One Astra Satellite Channel 8 11.318 GHz / V polarisation, Stereo 7.38 / 7.56 MHz piped thru my stereo from my Nokia stereo satellite receiver and 80cm Astra dish equipped with genuine Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction, it sounded fantastic!
Evolution in 1980-2023
I used to make tapes of Sky Radio through the hifi system and loved the jingles and music, a lot of it apart from the news on the hour was in English! I used Maxell UDI, BASF Chromdioxid Super II, TDK SA and Realistic Supertape / Radio Shack Concertape C-120 cassettes to make the recordings and the satellite receiver's Wegener 🐼 One noise reduction circuit removed all the hiss and made it so good I didn't need to use Dolby B or C noise reduction at all. The tape deck did automatically engage Dolby HX Pro noise reduction but it just kept it good without being detrimental to the recordings.
I remember, somewhere in the beginning of the 1990-s, or even before (we got our cable tv network about 1987), we had this Sky Radio in our radio channels. I remember this was completely automatic radio station - only somewhere in the weekend was some kind of program in air where one men read something, probably letters from listeners or just poems etc. All other was 24/7 only music 3...4 songs and signature and so on. I also remember that songs after signature where a little predictable and signatures after certain songs were also predictable after listening this program for hours and hours every day. I also very liked that songs started and ended in carefully selected points because a lot of these songs otherwise had boring beginnings and ends. I do not know how was this program made in these early years, this would be great to know! There were no such computers in this time, we have today. But I believe
this was some kind of multi disk CD jukebox driven by some kind of early and primitive computer system. I remember seen something in our local radio station in 1995. And listening these singles here, I can tell this is later time I remember. Most of my memories are from time before they put this "100.7 FM" into these singles. Greetings from Estonia.
that was a poem program, by Jan van Veen
Thanks for your comment. I saw it just now.
On TH-cam there's a video of Sky Radio in 1988. Maybe you'd like to check it out: th-cam.com/video/nzNK0Ui-cqI/w-d-xo.html
The poet program was called Candlelight, the host was Jan van Veen. You can see him in another video, after 25 seconds: th-cam.com/video/FkHngJPWNkI/w-d-xo.html
Jan van Veen started his radio career back in 1964, according to Wikipedia. Candlelight was already on the radio on other stations before commercial radio had started.
Candlelight
have you the skyradio jingles from 2007 (have a nice day)
0:21-1:26-2:09 KOST 103.5
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0:21-1:26-2:09 KOST 103.5