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Opening Date

25th February 1965 (tests)

24th March 1965 (regular programmes)


Closing Date

22nd September 1965

(Became Radio 390)

Format

Middle-of-the-road, Country and Western, Rhythm and Blues and Latin American music, together with a sprinkling of pop classics

Broadcasting Hours

Daily

7.00am-7.00pm

Red Sands Fort

Red Sands Fort

Wavelength/

Frequency


236m (1259kHz),

later changed to 237m (still announced as 236m) (1267kHz)

KING Radio

Owners


Charles Evans and John Thompson

(who withdrew from the project in the early days of the station)

Mike Raven,  Maurice Gothing

Landbased Address

Oxford House,

Folkestone,

Kent

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