Welcome to the TLR
Thanet Friends Page
TLR first went on air in January 1998 broadcasting to Thanet, Sandwich and Deal. Broadcasting 24 hours a day from studio,s near Margates sea front. The station was one of 5 small scale licenses to be handed out in Kent. The station Broadcast on 107.2 FM with a power of 100 watts. The format was Big hits of the day mixed in with the best music from the past 35 years. In March 2003 TLR was re branded kmfm Thanet.
Below you'll find a selection
of pictures of the people who worked at the station over the time it was
on air. Sorry I just did not have photos of everybody, but will keep adding
to the page one more become available.
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Let's
meet some of the crew who made TLR work for Thanet, Sandwich, and Deal
On Mid Mornings Was 'ooohhhh'
Mike Stevens
Afternoon Drive was Jon Rogers,
here with one of the sales team..Amanda
Some of TLR's Early staff from
1998 in the main studio
Breakfast DJ Pete Willson cooking
up a delight
TLR's Studio's were in The
High St in Margate, with the TX sited about 5 miles away just outside
Broadstairs.The station also had a mobile OB studio on 'The Big Blue Bus'
many show's did come from this bus via a Radio link to both Margate and
the Tx site at Pyson Road, Broadstairs
The Big Blue Bus, the side
lowered to make a rather nice stage to work from
Pete Willson and myself doing
a live OB from the Bus
At TLR we did have loads of
fun while out with the bus and back in the studio as well. On one of Jon
Rogers Birthday he did get a little surprise while on air.
Jon Rogers was not the only
one to have fun while on Air, Paul Mccartney our first MD went for a swim
in the harbor at Margate and then the two of us while doing an OB in Deal
went for another swim, any excuse to get our clothes off
OB from Deal beach. Amanda
has the Mic.
Some more of the Crew out enjoying
themselves and in the studio in Margate
Having a chat with one of the
Red Arrow pilots
Lovely girls in the office
Jill and Caroline, nice smiles. on the left is Howard Evens who helped a lot with the stations outside events
Bob Mower(Matthews on Caroline)who
was on CTFM in Canterbury at the time
Hope you've enjoyed having
a look at this page, I will be adding and changing the photos here from
time to time so do pop back.
Going for a sponsored dip in
the North Sea in Feb 1998. Yes it was cold!
On Thursday 17th January a
whole load of staff both current and past celebrated 10 years of Local
Radio in Thanet at the Fayreness
Hotel in Kingsgate.
What was then TLR and now kmfm
Thanet has been serving the area with news, information, music and Fun
since 1997.
