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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 Radio Clatterbridge is back on the air!
It has taken over three months, but today we finally went back on the air. As is often the case, the engineers still don't exactly know what was wrong. However, they have done a lot of re-wiring and re-routing of cable and a quick check of the wards this evening has revealed that we are once again transmitting to the hospital.
Now comes the job of pulling in an audience again, and our request team will be hitting the wards in the next few days to plug the fact we are back and distribute new leaflets with our programme schedule on.
I did fear that we would lose several of our 30 or so volunteer presenters as a result of being off the air for so long, but that doesn't seem to be the case. A number of them have already called me to tell me they are chomping at the bit to get back on air, and have expressed relief that the wait is over. There is a wonderful loyalty that exists among the Radio Clatterbridge team, and it makes my job a lot easier.
I must say thank you to long-standing member Vic Charles for his assistance and persistence over the last few months in reminding the engineers of the need to sort the fault out, and also to the League of Friends who had expressed concern to the Trust about our situation. The League have been great supporters of Radio Clatterbridge for many, many years and we have been given an awful lot of assistance by Philip Owen and his team. Thanks also must go to Wirral Hospital Trust Chief Executive Len Richards who put one of his engineers on the case with an instruction not to do any other work until we were re-connected!
Normal service has resumed.
posted by Paul Johnston # Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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