Radio Heatherwood's lOO up club had
eighty members. An influx of staff produced increased broadcast times for
Saturdays; with broadcasts from 1pm till 10pm
This year the station spent £100 on
replacement headsets for the wards.
The radio teams this year were
reported as trying to raise their own funds to replace headsets.
The pop duo, Peters and Lee were
interviewed and the tape was broadcast.
The Windsor lions junior section,
controlled the broadcasting for Sunday evenings.
The station had entered Capital
radio's competition for hospital radio's and had been invited to attend a
forum. Lots of new ideas had been formed and it was hoped that the service
would be able to incorporate some of these and so improve content etc of
programmes.
Radio Heatherwood was asked along
with other Hospital broadcasting organization to help take part in a
special Christmas broadcast of dedications for people in hospital by RADIO
210. Three members of the station, were selected to help.
In the early days there was no
regulation on the amount of requests taken from the wards. Every night
would do something different, sometimes this would mean anything up to 52
requests in a night. A patient could wait up to three hours; before
hearing their request as no time slots of half hour duration were given.
It could be quite normal to arrive back at the studio and find that there
were six requests for 8:45.This method continued until 1984.
