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Ocean Sound
Ocean Sound, Ocean FM, Ocean
Ocean Sound replaced Radio Victory on 12th October 1986 after a licence battle for the Portsmouth station failed. Ocean Sound's application suggested coverage of a wider area, incorporating Southampton in addition to Portsmouth.
To start, there were two Ocean Sound services: The East service (serving Portsmouth and surrounding areas) on 1170 kHz MW / 97.5 FM and the West service (serving Southampton and surrounding areas) on 1557 kHz MW / 103.2 FM.
At 10am on Sunday the 6th December 1987, the service was extended to Winchester and the surrounding areas. This was called The Light FM and could be heard on 96.7. It had separate programmes from 6am-2pm and then carried the same output as the East service. The 5-9pm show was also separate at a later date.
On 4th December 1988, the station then split in all manner of different directions to create Ocean Sound, Power FM and the Gold AM. This produced the most excellent of adrenalin pumping situations for the local news team as one jounalist pre-recorded one bulletin for Light FM, immediately followed by a live newscast for Power FM at two minutes to the hour, with seven seconds to spare, they then opted into Ocean Sound to provide the main news bulletin. Chris Carnegy said this system was created "because it could". Genius.
In 1990, the Southern Radio Group (Southern Sound) took over and transformed the FM services (Ocean Sound & The Light FM) to Ocean Sound Classic Hits. The programming was the same as Southern Sound FM except for breakfast. Southern Sound and Ocean Sound later became Southern FM and Ocean FM. The Southern Radio Group was taken over by Capital Radio plc.
Information amended from the excellent Aircheck UK webpage
Ocean Sound Jingles
- Ocean Sound - LBS Jingles from 1986