RADIO JACKIE PHOTO ARCHIVE 

...by John Gorst's Local Radio Association...
...with a Marconi MW frequency plan - yet...
...just a few large area coverage stations...
...were permitted
from 1973...
...a Local Broadcasting Authority was endorsed in 1977's Annan Report-
...as a means of "giving local services the chance to develop"...
...and duly ignored in the White Paper...
...a Radio Jackie booklet in 1979...
...made perfectly sound proposals...
...as did The Broadcast Bureau, in 1982...
...with campaigns by Free The Airwaves and CRADLE - ...
..the Community RADio Licence Experiment...
...Jackie's submissions had foreseen how radio would develop...
...and proved that governments' eternal...
..."no frequencies are available" claims...
...were completely...
...and utterly untrue...
...the BBC agreed...
...engineers agreed...
...journals campaigned..
..books were published..
...putting forth the arguments...
...activists lobbied...
...1986's Peacock Committee wanted hundreds of stations...
...in 1987, minister John Butcher supported freer access to the airwaves..
...including for Radio Jackie 227...
...yet progress was blocked at every turn.
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