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Blast 1386 - news archive

This is an archive of news about Blast 1386. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Ex-Blast boss heads to Greece
From Radio Today. Posted April 26 2006, 12.15am
Bobby Gee, former station manager and presenter of Reading's Blast 1386 has landed a new job on Island 88.6 FM in Zakynthos, Greece, presenting the breakfast show for the summer season. Island 88.6 FM is an English-speaking radio station that launched in June 2005. It broadcasts from the island, which has a permanent British population of approximately 3,500 and over 450,000 British visitors each year during the summer. The station has generated plenty of interest and positive feedback from its listeners, who are predominantly British; although the variety of music attracts listeners of all nationalities. (more)

New studio for Reading
From Radio Today. Posted April 12 2006, 10.45pm
Hospital Radio Reading have become the latest hospital radio station to install the Sonifex S2 Solutions Studio Package. The station, known on-air as Blast 1386 took advantage of a move from Battle Hospital in West Reading to the site of Royal Berkshire Hospital to ditch all their old equipment in favour of a complete new station package based around Sonifex S2 (also recently installed recently launched ILR stations such as 107 The Bee in Blackburn) and the Myriad automation and playout computer software from PSquared. (more)