My FM Archive : May 2018

 MY apologies for not posting more regularly, here on Reporting From The Fox Tower!

This is a short post, as I try to return to posting on a regular basis.

A previous post of FM logs, dated April 2018, can be found here.

Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in MegaHertz (MHz). Logs transcribed from the original notes. Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW).

Receiver used: Sangean ATS-405.

May 2018 : FM

• [Friday] 11 May [2018]: 2314 UTC: 107.5 MHz: Eden FM  Penrith, 25 watts via Penrith.
  ID: 'This is your community radio station, Eden FM'. Music: Bryan Adams (+ Chicane?) 'Don't Give Up'; Richard Ashcroft 'Fill The Night With Colour'. ID: 'Your community radio station, Your 107.5 Eden FM'. Music: 'Never Can Say Goodbye'.
  Fair to poor reception - 25 watts via Penrith.
  Music: Tim McGraw + Faith Hill 'The Rest Of Our Life'.
  Logged to 2324 UTC.

I would like to use this space to salute the broadcaster Johnnie Walker, who has retired, due to ill health.

Here is a little video I made of his final rock show, broadcast Friday, 25 October, 2024 on BBC Radio 2. Enjoy.

Thank you for visiting Reporting From The Fox Tower - Enjoy listening to your radio!

Eden Country playlist, 12 November 2017

EDEN Country is two hours of classic, contemporary and bluegrass Country music on Eden FM.

The show is broadcast every Sunday, from 12 noon to 2pm (UK Time) on 107.5 FM in Penrith and the Eden Valley, online via the website and the TuneIn app.

Here is the playlist for the show, broadcast Sunday 12 November 2017:

Hour 1:

Rascal Flatts - 'She Goes All the Way’

Billie Jo Spears – ‘Blanket On The Ground’

Shania Twain - 'Any Man Of Mine'

Rick Trevino – ‘Bobbie Ann Mason’

Jim Reeves – ‘He’ll Have To Go’

Darius Rucker – ‘Wagon Wheel’

Gram Parsons – ‘Hickory Wind’

Rodney Crowell – ‘I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried’

Don Williams – ‘I Recall a Gypsy Woman’

Hank Williams – ‘I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry’

Radney Foster – ‘Just Call Me Lonesome’

Little Big Town – ‘Fine Line’

Johnny Cash – ‘Belshazar’

Junior Brown – ‘My Wife Thinks You’re Dead’

Hour 2:

Charlie Rich – ‘The Most Beautiful Girl’

Nanci Griffith – ‘This Heart’

Jimmie Dale Gilmore – ‘Treat Me Like A Saturday Night’

Kathy Mattea – ‘Walking Away a Winner’

Joy Lynn White – ‘Wild Love’

Beth Nielsen Chapman – ‘Even As It All Goes By’

West Virginia – ‘Light Years Away’

Mick Flavin – ‘Take Me Back Home To Mayo’

Glen Campbell – ‘Honey Come Back’

Alan Borders – ‘Waycross Georgia Blues’

Raul Malo – ‘Moonlight Kiss’

Joni Bishop – ‘Everyday Miracles’

Steve Earle – ‘Copperhead Road’

Lonestar – ‘Amazed’

Willie Nelson – ‘On The Road Again’

That was the playlist for Eden Country, broadcast Sunday 12 November 2017.

Caitlyn Beth Rasmussen

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We must catch up!

REPORTING From The Fox Tower has been quite quiet recently, due to a technical outage at RFTFT HQ, which, thankfully, was resolved by the good people at KTD, Kendal.

The plan for posts over the last couple of weeks was to address the summer of sport which is now upon us, which I shall bring you, but as Wimbledon 2017 is coming to a close, one Penrith business is thriving as they supplied Traybakes to the Championships. Learn more from this recent ITV Border report by Kate Walby:

WATCH: A Cumbrian bakery will serve almost 30,000 of its handmade traybakes at Wimbledon. Kate Walby explores why it's ace for business: pic.twitter.com/DWHc5VqNuO

— ITV News Border (@ITVborder) July 5, 2017

Here is a recent photograph of the team at Traybakes, Redhills, Penrith, who have won a contract to supply cakes to TV chef Paul Hollywood and also to Wimbledon.
[Managing Director Justine Carruthers, centre, with sales administrator Chris Raffel, left, sales and marketing manager Judith Keating, right and their bakery technician team, back; 16 May 2017. PAULA THANNER]:

The Traybakes team, May 2017

As this post is a 'hello again' after a couple of weeks, I shall be back in a day or so to re-establish regular posts. Until then, enjoy the weekend!

M a r t i n

Discover Penrith

THIS post on RFTFT takes us up to the market town of Penrith, Cumbria. A town that has been going through a regeneration in recent years, which has included the building of the new Castle Park Retail site, on the A592, Ullswater Road, as well as the New Squares development, around the Southend Road area. I do like the metalwork which greets visitors to the New Squares, as seen above. A new website was launched in late 2013, on which visitors can learn more about the town, the website is Discover Penrith. There is lots more to Penrith than just the new retail areas; The Musgrave Monument in the Market Square, St Andrew's Church, the statue of the Black Angel in Castle Park (to commemorate the Boer War), the Band Stand in Corn Market, not forgetting Penrith Castle, as well as the sporting facilities in Castle Park. Regarding sports, Penrith Rugby Union is based at Winters Park, Carleton; Penrith AFC [Football Club] is based at Frenchfields Park. Learn more about sport in Penrith on the Eden FM Sport Facebook page. Eden FM is the Community Radio station based on Ullswater Road Business Park. Also based in Penrith is the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald (weekly newspaper) and Cumbrian Local (monthly community magazine). I do hope this posting regarding Penrith has been enjoyable. Do enjoy the remainder of your weekend.

Happy Olympic Torch Anniversary!

TODAY I have been thinking back one year, to Wednesday 20 June 2012, the date on which the Olympic Torch relay passed through Eden on its way to Carlisle. This posting marks the first anniversary of that day with links to media sites hosting videos, blogs and photographs of the Olympic Flame making its way through Cumbria for the first time. Click on the links below and enjoy a few memories.

• The Olympic Flame in Brough - Videos from ITV Border - Click here.
• The Olympic Flame in Appleby - Video from ITV Border - Click here.
• The Olympic Flame in Penrith - Videos from ITV Border - Click here.

To provide fairness and balance in this post, the next link is to the BBC Torch Relay site. I'm not sure if the videos are still available, but you can read the blog of the day's events on the right hand side of the page - Day 33 of the Olympic Torch relay. To enjoy a few more memories, click here.