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Simon Bates

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Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946 in Birmingham) is an English disc jockey and radio presenter. [1]

55 relations: Atlantic 252, Australia, BBC, BBC One, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 (former), BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Southern Counties Radio, BBC Two, Ben Elton, Birmingham, Brit Awards, Classic FM (UK), Classic Gold, Disc jockey, Food and Drink, Franco Zeffirelli, Gold (radio), Good Morning with Anne and Nick, Gordon Sparks, Haberdashers' Adams, Harry Enfield, Jonathan King, LBC, Liberty Radio, Longwave, Matthew Bannister, Mid Devon, New Zealand, Nino Rota, Our Tune, Radio Today (website), Received Pronunciation, Resignation, Romeo and Juliet (1968 film), Shropshire, Simon Bates at Breakfast, Sky One, Smooth 70s, Smooth Radio, Suffolk, Talksport, The Golden Hour (radio feature), The Proms, Tom Browne (broadcaster), Tony Blackburn, ..., Top 40, Top of the Pops, Video Standards Council, Voice-tracking, Western Morning News. Expand index (5 more) »

Atlantic 252

Atlantic 252 was an Irish longwave radio station broadcasting across Ireland and Great Britain on 252 kHz (1190 metres) from its 1988 purpose-built transmission site at Clarkstown radio transmitter, County Meath, which provided service to Atlantic 252 from 1989 until 2002.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Radio 5 (former)

BBC Radio 5, a BBC radio network, carried sport, children's and educational programmes from 1990 to 1994.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live (also known as just 5 Live) is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, interviews and sports commentaries.

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BBC Radio Devon

BBC Radio Devon is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Devon.

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BBC Southern Counties Radio

BBC Southern Counties Radio was the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Surrey and Sussex.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Ben Elton

Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Brit Awards

The BRIT Awards (often simply called The BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards.

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Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM (stylised as Classic M) is one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations.

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Classic Gold

Classic Gold was a network of three "Gold" music formatted stations which broadcast on AM in Bradford, Hull and Sheffield.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Food and Drink

Food and Drink is a British television series on BBC Two.

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Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli, KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born 12 February 1923) is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television.

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Gold (radio)

Gold is a network of oldies radio stations which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold Network in August 2007.

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Good Morning with Anne and Nick

Good Morning with Anne and Nick was a British daytime television show presented by Anne Diamond and Nick Owen.

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Gordon Sparks

Gordon Sparks is an author, journalist and BBC Radio Devon disc jockey and football commentator.

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Haberdashers' Adams

Haberdashers' Adams is a grammar school for boys aged 11–18 and girls 16-18, located in Newport, Shropshire, offering day and boarding education.

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Harry Enfield

Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director.

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Jonathan King

Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, and former television and radio presenter.

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LBC

LBC (originally the London Broadcasting Company) is a London-based national talk and phone-in radio station.

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Liberty Radio

Liberty Radio is a UK radio broadcaster and company based in London, England that,, is transmitted free to air from the Astra 2F satellite at 28.2° East to most of Europe, and on the Internet, but not on analog or DAB terrestrial radio.

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Longwave

In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band.

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Matthew Bannister

Richard Matthew Bannister (born 16 March 1957) is a British media executive and broadcaster.

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Mid Devon

Mid Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nino Rota

Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

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Our Tune

Our Tune is a long-standing feature/segment on British radio presented by broadcaster Simon Bates.

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Radio Today (website)

Radio Today (address RadioToday.co.uk) is a UK-based website providing news, features, photos and reviews related to the radio industry in the United Kingdom.

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Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.

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Resignation

A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position.

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Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)

Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian romantic drama film based on the play of the same name (1591–1595) by William Shakespeare.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Simon Bates at Breakfast

Simon Bates at Breakfast was the flagship show on Smooth Radio in the United Kingdom from January 2011 to March 2014.

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Sky One

Sky One is a British general entertainment channel operated and owned by Sky plc, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Smooth 70s

Smooth 70s was a British radio station dedicated to music from the 1970s.

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Smooth Radio

Smooth Radio is a network of adult contemporary local radio stations broadcasting on FM and MW stations in the United Kingdom.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Talksport

Talksport (styled as talkSPORT), owned by Wireless Group, is a sports radio station and the Global Audio Partner of the Premier League.

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The Golden Hour (radio feature)

The Golden Hour is a long-standing feature/segment on UK radio station BBC Radio 1, where records are played that all charted in the UK Top 40 in a certain year and listeners are invited to guess the year.

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The Proms

The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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Tom Browne (broadcaster)

Tom Browne (born 11 November 1945) is a British broadcaster and actor, born in Lymington, Hampshire, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon.

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Tony Blackburn

Antony Kenneth "Tony" Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Video Standards Council

The Video Standards Council (VSC) is an administrator of the PEGI system of age rating for video games.

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Voice-tracking

Voice-tracking, also called cyber jocking and referred to sometimes colloquially as a robojock, is a technique employed by some radio stations in radio broadcasting to produce the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the radio studios of the station when one is not actually present.

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Western Morning News

The Western Morning News is a daily regional newspaper founded in 1860, and covering the West Country including Devon, Cornwall, Isles of Scilly and parts of Somerset and Dorset in the South West of England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bates

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