Invicta Supergold

Supergold (Europe) was an oldies radio sustaining service originally operated by the Telstar Satellite Music Network(TSMN) and later by Chiltern Radio Group in the United Kingdom. Originally devised by entrepreneur and DJ Graham Kentsley, it was one of Europe's first satellite delivered radio stations, receiving a Satellite Television Technology International (STTI) award for satellite communication innovation.

The Supergold oldies radio format was originally a creation of Mike Harvey the US Disk Jockey in the mid 80's . Mike could to be heard on weekday mornings on WEBG-FM 100.3 and on Saturday nights coast to coast in the US as the host of "SuperGold". In 2017 Harvey still has two syndicated programs broadcast in the US.The nightly Mike Harvey Show and SuperGold Weekend. The format was acquired from Transtar Radio by the "Satellite Music Network" of Dallas Texas USA - Supergold became one of SMN's many radio formats.

In 1987 Graham Kentsley a young entertainment music and media entrepreneur and satellite communication expert from St Albans UK. Decided that with the launch of several new european Satellites there was now a need for a Pan European satellite sustaining radio service and set about with his brother Steven Kentsley in launching the Telstar Satellite Music Network (a division of Kentsley's own Telstar Satellite TV company). Kentsley being a music and radio enthusiast had previously installed the first Satellite TV/Radio system in any licensed premises (The Adelaide Wine House in St Albans UK). In 1987 Kentsley visited the studios of the SMN in Dalles Texas and reached a agreement with SMN to  take the "Supergold" format to Europe on a trial basis.

Supergold was launched in the UK in November 1988 from the EAP studios in Frinton Essex UK and broadcast on the Intelsat Satellite 27.5 (on a mono audio subcarrier) initially heard between the hours of 11pm and 6am UK time (a high quality ISDN line took the signal from Frinton in Essex  to the British Telecom Docklands uplink facility via the British Telecom Tower in central London). "Supergold" was put off the air for a whole night on one occasion when a cow chewed the ISDN line somewhere outside Clacton in Rural Essex UK.

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