Station Name
The name of the station was to have been Radio KLIF London because the floating station was to have used recorded programmes from KLIF, Dallas. When it was decided that the sound should be live instead of recorded, Pierson hired Ben Toney as programme director. Philip Birch was appointed CEO in charge of the radio station and of advertising sales. Birch suggested calling the station Radio Galaxy, in anticipation of its star making ability. As a compromise the minesweeper was renamed MV Galaxy while the station became Radio London. However, the PAMS jingles caused a further refinement of the name so that it was known as Wonderful Radio London and Big L; just as KLIF in Dallas called its hometown Big D.
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Famous quotes containing the word station:
“To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.”
—Sarah Ellis (1812–1872)
“How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn’t love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)