The mainstay of any local radio station apart from music and speech content
is it's news output, and to make a news bulletin stand out a Radio Station
needs a viable set of news jingles. From October 1974 through to the mid eighties
Radio City used the news jingle which was composed by Gerry Marsden M.B.E.
and vocally realised by Madaleine Bell, a former vocalist with the 70's pop group
Blue Mink. As soon as you heard that TOTH jingle you knew that it was news
time. Even though Radio City had new jingle packages in 1977 (Emison), 1979 (Sue
Manning) and 1982/3 (Standard Sound) they still used the Gerry Marsden TOTH
up to the mid to late eighties. The only difference with the various packages that
City used up to the mid to late eighties was the news outro jingles, there
is a selection of the news jingles on this page in real audio format. |
