The Story of Hereford Hospital Radio - Part 2

Roger Smith at the helm sometime in the 90's at Wyevale Garden Centre in Hereford.

Throughout the nineties the station went from strength to strength winning HBA (Hospital Broadcasting Awards) and increasing its output and members. We were undertaking regular Outside Broadcasts around the county, from coverage of Hereford United's home matches via our own makeshift 'studio' at the ground to broadcasting solemn events marking services for Remembrance Day in the city. At one point in the early noughties, we had programmes for every evening from 6 to 10pm and throughout the weekend from 9am to 10pm at night, including Sports programmes, relaying the hospital church service in the hospital and even outside broadcasts (OB's) of concerts at the leisure centre.

Website designer and presenter Julian Robbins, and HHR President, Mr Paul Keetch, Hereford MP launch the new website in 1999.

The height of our output probably occurred in  the late nineties doing OB's for the Daniel O'Donnell and the Bootleg Beatles. The O'Donnell concert had been fully booked for months, and there were jovial stories in the local paper about people desperately trying to be in hospital so they could get to listen to the great man !

But tougher times were just around the corner  ...