WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER THE BREAK!

Northumberland Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was the retail centre of the north east in June, 1975.

ByANDY FLEMING, Webmaster

Thanks are once again due to Neil Siddaway who has contacted the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute website with some more commercial breaks.

So once again, it's time to delve into the anals of north east broadcasting nostalgia for another snapshot of social and economic history from a late seventies perspective on Metro Radio. Neil of Middlesbrough in Teesside has lovingly taped programmes, jingles and commercial breaks from the station and most importantly has kept them all this time and has indeed built up a superb audio archive.

Please enjoy these latest recordings, that are nearly forty years and thanks once again to Neil, of whom we're heavily indebted.

Don't forget we're approaching Metro Radio's fortieth birthday on July 14, and if you'd like to contact the website to just say "hi", recall your memories of listening to or working for Metro Radio, or to send some media for sharing, then please free to send us an e-mail here. We'd love to hear from you!

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Includes the soundtrack of an advertisment for Metro Radio itself on Tyne Tees Television. This showed a close-up of a woman's mouth miming to the different sounds of Metro Radio.
B.T. Astrophone; Oasis Bar, The Galleries; Camshaft. Pity Me; Sava Centre's Third Birthday; Metro's TV Advert; At The Mill. Mill Garages; Door Tunes Doorbell; Think, Before You Drink, Before You Drive; 1979; 5 mins 55 secs.

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Ken McKenzie Show, Promo; Radio Rentals, Colour TV; Minories, Customers Matter; Northern Gas. Gas Cooker Trade In; Windows, James Last L.P. K-Tel, Super Bad L.P.; The Big New Sound. Promo; Burton's Made To Measure Suits for £30. (WOW, yes 30 quid)' You Listen, and I Listen....To The Sound of Metro Radio; Designers & Coal Miners....To The Sound of Metro Radio; Take The Tranny on a Picnic, Promo. (Yours for The Asking ???); Sunday Supplement Programme. Promo; Weather Jingle; La Dolce Vita. Newcastle;  1975; 6 mins 32 secs.

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Irvine Motors, Newcastle; Eric Petch, Photocopiers; Makro Washington, 5th Birthday; Initial Towel Rental; Leach Homes, Home Seekers Advice; The Journal, Killer On The Loose; North Eastern Coop. Heinz Prices; Mothercare, Goes Up To Ten; Vidor Batteries; September 5, 1978; 5 mins 19 secs.

More of Neil's fantastic archive of commercials and jingles is available on Time for a Commercial Break page. 

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SEE YOU BACK AFTER THE BREAK!

ByANDY FLEMING, Webmaster

Thanks are due to Neil Siddaway who has contacted the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute website again with another couple of montages of commercial breaks.

So once again, it's time to delve into the anals of north east broadcasting nostalgia for another snapshot of social and economic history from a late seventies perspective on Metro Radio. Neil of Middlesbrough in Teesside has lovingly taped programmes, jingles and commercial breaks from the station and most importantly has kept them all this time and has indeed built up a superb audio archive.

Please enjoy these latest recordings, that are nearly forty years and thanks once again to Neil, of whom we're heavily indebted.

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Metro Job Time; Yorkie; Starks DIY, Shiney Row. (Bobby Thompson); Weetabix; Patterson Ford. (How Can We Help You); Cowies, Sunderland; Ross's Beetroot; H.G.Block & Son; The Journal; Green Shield Stamps; 1978; 5 mins 12 secs.


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Octopus Books; Wallsend Service Station, (Merry Christmas); Keep On Trucking, Promo; Elvis 40 Greatest Hits; Christmas Cards; Harp Lager; Metcalfe's Radios (Merry Christmas); Golden Rail Holidays; Corbett & Company; Tom Thumb Cigars; Carlsberg Special Brew; ; 1979; 5 mins 40 secs.

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Fine Fare Department Store, Peterlee; On The Road, Weekly Car Guide; Fine Fare Superstore, Stanley; Heaven Can Wait Film. (1978); Nurodol, Pain Killer; Top Rank Club. (Pat Coombes); Student Rail Card. (Noel Edmonds); Esso Tyres; PER Employment News. (Redvers Kyle); La Dolce Vita; 1978; 5 mins 24 secs.

More of Neil's fantastic archive of commercials and jingles is available on Time for a Commercial Break page. 

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KEEPING THE SHAREHOLDERS HAPPY WITH 3 BUMPER COMMERCIAL BREAKS!

ByANDY FLEMING, Webmaster

Once again, many thanks are due to Neil Siddaway who has contacted the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute website again with three mega montages of commercial breaks.

So we're once again about to embark in our magical time travel machine on a journey of north east broadcasting history, and take another look at some snapshots of social and economic history from a late seventies perspective on Metro Radio. Neil of Middlesbrough in Teesside has lovingly taped programmes, jingles and commercial breaks from the station and most importantly has kept them all this time and has indeed built up a superb audio archive.

Enjoy these advertisements and if you have any material you would like to share via the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute Website, no matter what the quality (we have ways of digitally cleaning it up!), then please don't hesitate this friendly historical website. We are starting to gain thousands of visitors many of whom are listeners and former presenters, and any material you possess I'm sure would bring nostalgic memories flooding back!

Submitting material couldn't be easier either via e-mail attachment, a free file hosting service or by post. To submit audio visual material and/or your memories or for inquiries, please contact the site here. 

Many thanks,
Andy.

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Len Groat. Various; John Denver Live At The London Palladium Album; Motor Cycle Racing Films At The People's Theatre; Death Race 2,000 Film; Tropical Ryslip, Paperback Book; Michael Parrish; Murray Mints. (Ad One); Just Jeans, Grainger Street, Newcastle; Murray Mints. (Ad Two); Metropopolis; Giles Squire, Show Closing; Big Phil Promo; 1974/75; 6 mins 27 secs.

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Big Phil intro; Mr Quilp, Film; Scottish & Newcastle, Merry Christmas; Sombrero Club, Chester Le Street; Compliments of the Season; Guinness, Christmas;
Prontaprint, Happy Christmas; North Eastern COOP, Goodbye '75 Sale; Maxwell's, Tynemouth; Guinness, New Year; Keep On Trucking, Promo; Guinness, Ad 3; Babycham; Gallagher & Lyle at The City Hall; Bellway Homes; Farnon's Sale; Hunting Lambert Travel; 1975; 7 mins 04 secs.

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Bridges Intro, with Alan "Fluff" Freeman; Northern Gas. The specialists; Schweppes Challenge Mile, Gateshead Stadium; Suite Centres, Newcastle & Sunderland; Roy's Two Rooms, Newcastle; Turners Photography; Kojak Shades, Sunglasses; Hotpoint Service Pledge; Metro Sports Quiz Final; Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Shepard's of Gateshead; Joplings, Sunderland; 4-7-11, (Ad 1); Airport Way Filling Station; Complan; Only The Beginning, Album. Minories; Maxwell's of Tynemouth; Father's Day Cards; Juicy Fruit Gum; Minories, Lower Hire Charges; Waterloo House Sale; 4-7-11, (Ad 2); 1976; 10 mins 03 secs.

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MORE COMMERCIALS!

ByANDY FLEMING, Webmaster

It's time to have another nostalgia trip, this time back to 1975 and 1978 with four commercial breaks thanks again to Neil Siddaway of Middlesbrough, Teesside. Neil has lovingly taped programmes, jingles and commercial breaks from the station and most importantly has kept them all this time, and has indeed built up a superb audio archive!

Enjoy these advertisements and if you have any material you would like to share via the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute Website, no matter what the quality (we have ways of digitally cleaning it up!), then please don't hesitate this friendly historical website. We are starting to gain thousands of visitors many of whom are listeners and former presenters, and any material you possess I'm sure would bring nostalgic memories flooding back!

Submitting material couldn't be easier either via e-mail attachment, a free file hosting service or by post. To submit audio visual material and/or your memories or for inquiries, please contact the site here. 

Many thanks,
Andy.

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The Flying Scotsman. (The Journal); Stanley Discount Superstore; Esso Extra Motor Oil; Kenwood Cook Pot; North Of England, Equestrian Centre, Stannington; Woman's World; Manpower Services Commission; Blue Boar Disco, Stanley; The Journal; Minories Car Hire; The Carpet Warehouse, Willington Quay; 1978; 6 mins 01 secs.

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.Visit Hexham; Tavaras Promo; Crossley Carpets. (Willie Rushton); Jaffa Grapefruits; Liverpool Express Promo; Clunk Click, Every Trip; Metro T-Shirts Offer. McEwans Best Scotch; Derek Thorpe, TV & Hi Fi, South Shields; 1978; 5 mins 06 secs.


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Tyneside Summer Exhibition 1975; Windowlene; Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Viking Taxi's Jarrow; Lambton Pleasure Park, Chester le Street; Stolen Car Message; Circus, Debut Album; The Daily Express Telephone Challenge.
Maxwell's Old Time Music Hall, Tynemouth; Leach Homes; The Sunday Sun; 1975; 5 mins 35 secs.

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Spiderman, The Dragons Challenge, Film; Unipart; K. Tel; A Reason To Live, A Reason To Die, Film; Dave Gregory, Promo; Brazilian Blend Coffee; The Seven Golden Vampires, Film; Dreams, Promo. (Metro Daily); Metro Your Station, Promo;  1979/1975; 5 mins 51 secs.

More of Neil's fantastic archive of commercials and jingles is available on Time for a Commercial Break page.

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