Atlantic 252 - terrible radio?

Cee-Jay-Cee

I loved 252 in the mid/late 90's. I was working and travelling all over the country and had 252 tuned in permanently. It was the only station that you could recieve without having to retune the radio (pre-RDS times) and the music was current and excellent in my opinion. I was on the road at all hours of the day/night and the only time i might change over would be to listen to the news on the hour but then it was straight back to 252. I would have continued listening to it except for the fact that they changed the format to talk radio which i had no interest in. I dont have LW on my car stereo any more and so cannot comment on the current format but i can imagine that the LW sound quality fails miserably in comparison to FM stereo quality but i got great value from it back in the 90's.

Nowadays every time i hear Your woman by White Town and Feel it by The Tamperer i'm reminded of 252 as they played them constantly when they were in the charts in 97 & 98 and when i was doing huge mileage each week. I still love them songs today!

Fuzzy Clam

CJC999 wrote: »

I dont have LW on my car stereo any more and so cannot comment on the current format

Current "format" is RTE Radio 1

Thundercats Ho

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

My first car had only MW and LW Radio and no tape facility - never mind CD player! Atlantic 252 was a Godsend at the time as I could pick it up anywhere in the country - sadly Century Radio was not great for picking up on MW.

As others have said, it was a very influential station. I accept that over time it became very repetitive. Then, I changed car and that was the problem solved!

Here are just some of the people (and you should certainly recognoise some of these names) who did stints on Atlantic 252:
Brian McColl (Nails Mahoney)
Liam Coburn (Batman Gomez)
Rick O'Shea
Enda Caldwell
Mark Byrne
Al Dunne
Paul Kavanagh
Steve Hayes (Hollywood Haze)
Henry Condon (Henry Owen)
Derek Flood
Dusty Rhodes
Simon Bates (possibly syndicated)
Dickie Bow
Cliff Walker
Pizzaman
Bam-Bam
Cousin Brucie
Jo King
Jeff Graham
Charlie Wolf
Andrew Turner
Kevin Palmer
"Magic" Marc Henry
Mark Noble
Tony West
Mark King
Robin Banks
Mary Ellen O'Brien
Desparate Dan

What about Sandy Beach...

Greg Parke

There is a lot of people missing from that list. Here is a link to a roll call which has almost everyone. Its information hasn't been updated for a while. http://www.atlantic252.co.uk/

Also this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_252

Declan A Walsh

Greg Parke wrote: »

There is a lot of people missing from that list. Here is a link to a roll call which has almost everyone. Its information hasn't been updated for a while. http://www.atlantic252.co.uk/

Also this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_252

I have spotted at least one inaccuracy in relation to Charlie Wolf on the Atalantic 252 website mentioned above. He was not the breakfast dj in the initial lineup. That accolade goes to Gary King. Initially, Charlie was on around teatime. I think he closed off the weekday's broadcasts - remember it used to shut down at 7pm in the early days? It would have been some months later in 1990, when Gary King left for BBC Radio One, that Charlie got his breakfast gig. Is it correct that Charlie left in 1992 - I thought he was there longer, but I could be wrong about that.

In relation to Jeff Graham (one of the people with question marks on that website), I know that he left Atlantic at some point in the early '90s to be PD for Radio Luxembourg. Not too long after that (a year at the outset), Jeff oversaw Radio Luxembourg's move from medium wave to the Astra satellite.

The following are not mentioned at all on that website: Mark Byrne, Marc Henry, Simon Bates, Liam Coburn/Batman Gomez, Wayne Scales, Jo King, Mark Noble, Jeremy Dixon, Pizzaman and Desperate Dan (Dan the Hitman perhaps?). Johnny Beerling was not mentioned either, buit I believe that was yet another persona for Steve Hayes/Hollywood Haze.

eth0_

Why *did* Atlantic 252 DJ's use pseudonyms? I always found that really cringeworthy.

Greg Parke

Exactly Declan, that site is not 100% like so many although it seems it was still researching by the time everything stopped there for whatever reason.

Sunnyisland

When driving you could listen to it anywhere in the country, brilliant at the time.

ford fiesta

Declan, I didn't know Mark Noble was on 252, is this the same guy currently on FM104?

Declan A Walsh

ford fiesta wrote: »

Declan, I didn't know Mark Noble was on 252, is this the same guy currently on FM104?

I could have sworn that I heard or read something quite some time ago linking FM104's Mark Noble with Atlantic 252. But now I cannot find anything concrete.

Could somebody confirm whether or not Mark Noble was with 252?

My apologies if I got this one wrong.