Radio City 1386AM
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| Broadcast area | Singleton Hospital in Swansea |
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| Frequency | AM: 1386 |
| First air date | 1968 |
| Format | Hospital |
| Website | www.radiocity1386am.co.uk |
Radio City 1386AM - The ABM University Health Board's Radio Service is the Hospital Radio service based in Singleton Hospital, Swansea.
Radio City 1386AM, is one of the longest running Hospital Radio station in Wales. It produces chat and news programmes, as well as playing music to patients at Singleton Hospital in Swansea. It broadcasts on 1386AM (LPAM) and on channel no.4 (wards 1 - 12) and on channel no.12 (wards 14 - 20).
The Swansea Hospitals Radio service was founded on 1 August 1966 by Robert Rees, David Vaughan and Clive Thomas - three school friends who had been watching a television programme on radio in hospitals run by voluntary groups. The early programmes were recorded on tapes in people's houses including two of the initial DJs, Tim Richards and Tony Bowden.
On New Year's Eve 1966, the station was launched at Morriston Hospital on a three-month trial basis. Due to accommodation difficulties initially the station broadcast from the basement and temporary accommodation in the car park, broadcasts were restricted to only four hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Soon broadcasts were extended to include a Welsh language programme and all day broadcasting at weekends.
In 1968 a new studio at Singleton Hospital was opened which later became Radio City's base. The station at Morriston became a separate organisation, known as Radio LF.
Expansion followed with Mount Pleasant, Hill House, Cefn Coed Hospital, Gorseinon and Garngoch Hospitals all receiving programmes. The hospitals were linked using a network of telephone landlines, all of which became very expensive to maintain.
Due to the restructure of the Health Authority and the closure of some of the hospitals Radio City's broadcasts were concentrated on Singleton Hospital, without the need for expensive landline links.
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