On 4 April 2007, UKTV Gold unveiled a new on-air identity centred around a branded golden space hopper, playing to contemporary trends toward 1970s nostalgia, and emphasising the station's re-run content.

With Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Prince as highlights of the station's broadcast, this will focus on music originating from the 1970s.

The station's music was easy listening / MOR-based until the 1970s, when the music was more of an adult contemporary-type sound.

For several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, CBKST used the brand " Saskatoon 11 / 12 " on-air and in print, reflecting the station's respective over-the-air and cable positions in the city.

This station received a minor overhaul in the late 1970s when MTA fixed the station's structure and the overall appearance, and it repaired staircases and platform edges, removed pedestrian ramps, and replaced lighting.

The station featured more commercially-identifable rock in the 1970s and early 1980s ; many of the platinum and gold records that hang in the station's offices reflect this.

During its heyday in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Frankie Crocker was WBLS ' program director and afternoon disc jockey, and is credited with defining what became the station's signature Urban Contemporary sound.

The show, which first went on the air in the waning days of WMMR, searched through the station's considerable library of 1970s pop music, playing both the best and worst from that decade ( with occasional forays into the recordings from the rest of the 20th century ).

ATN's engineering staff received two Emmy Awards-making ATN the first Australian company to receive such an award-for the technology, invention and further development of RaceCam, live mobile point-of-view TV cameras which were initially developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the station's coverage of touring car races at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales.

For a period during the 1970s, the station's slogan was 5, The Originator, in reference to all of the local programming that was produced by the station.

This station was given the name " Huguenot Park ", even though no park was actually located nearby ; by the 1970s the word " Park " had been dropped, but later a branch of the New York Public Library was opened one block west of the station, replacing what was once the smallest New York Public Library building just east of the station ( still standing ), and named the Huguenot Park Branch, perhaps in honor of the station's former name.

In the early 1970s, Gerry Gazlay was the station's News Director.

During the 1970s, the station's hourly ID ( required by the FCC ) stated: " 50, 000 watts on 1190, WOWO, Fort Wayne, Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting.

The 1970s recession impacted the station's operations ; Sun World encountered financial difficulties and was forced to file for bankruptcy in January 1976.

It was considered important enough to the station's broadcasting, especially in the 1970s when the Bruins were one of the perennially elite teams in the National Hockey League and enormously popular in Boston, that then-station owners Storer Broadcasting purchased and owned the Bruins for several years.

The station's playlist consisted of music almost entirely from 1964 to 1979, dividing about equally between the 1960s and 1970s, playing only a handful of pre-1964 oldies and songs from the 1980s.

In the 1970s and 1980s, WDCA's best-known personality was Dick Dyszel, who played Bozo the Clown, horror movie host " Count Gore de Vol ", kids show host " Captain 20 ", and also served as the station's main announcer.

As the station's wattage increased, shortwave radio enthusiasts in North America started receiving the station's broadcasts, submitting reception reports in order to provide the HCJB engineers feedback on the station's signal strength and quality. An HCJB envelope with a 1938 postmark which contained a QSL card sent to the addressee Since a popular practice in the hobby of shortwave radio listening was to request a QSL card, HCJB started creating its own QSLs in 1932. An HCJB QSL card from 1955 By the 1970s, the station was one of the most powerful and most readily received shortwave stations.

Don Russell is the station's longest-tenured personality, having worked at the station on six separate occasions since the 1970s.

Then in late 2004, the station's owner, now Clear Channel Communications, switched the music format to " My 107. 3 " and played 1970s and 1980s music.

The station's overhaul in the late 1970s included fixing the station's structure and the overall appearance ( including the staircases and platform edges ), replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights.

The crew's main mission was to overhaul the Salyut 6 space station's systems and prepare it for further long-duration crews.

When the sale to Murdoch was completed on January 19, 1987, Fox renamed the station WFXT and made a complete overhaul of the station's presentation.

As part of Derby's City Centre Eastern Fringes Area Action Plan, plans for new urban village development ' Castleward ' suggest a complete overhaul of the rail station's frontage.

This station underwent an overhaul in the late 1970s, which included fixing the station's structure and replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting with 1970s modern-look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights.

Following the announcement, a long montage of Thames ' very best programmes through an edited-for-time version of The Tourists ' cover of " I Only Want to Be With You " with of montage, variants of which were also aired in the last days of the station's broadcasts, comprised clips of notable Thames programmes, and included short segments of some of the station's previous idents and ended with a modified version of the ident used at the time and an announcer reading the tagline to shown mostly on Thames final week:

The montage, variants of which were also aired in the last days of the station's broadcasts, comprised clips of notable Thames programmes, and included short segments of some of the station's previous idents.

Upon resolving the dispute, LWT suffered poor rating figures as the station's idea of peak viewing included a Stravinsky musical drama, an avant-garde drama from Jean-Luc Godard, a tribute to Jacques Brel and ' Georgia Brown Sings Kurt Weill '.

Other opening night programmes included a Filmed Playhouse drama entitled The Last Reunion, a preview programme called Coming Shortly, an episode of the American crime drama Highway Patrol and most notably, a networked opening night programme entitled Southern Rhapsody, starring Gracie Fields and the Lionel Blair Dancers, televised from the station's studios in a converted cinema in the Northam area of Southampton and the ocean liner Caronia which was berthed in Southampton docks.

These included the addition of a second docking port, a new main propulsion system and the station's primary scientific instrument, the BST-1M multispectral telescope.

According to Edward Tufte's book Envisioning Information, space debris objects have included a glove lost by astronaut Ed White on the first American space-walk ( EVA ); a camera Michael Collins lost near the spacecraft Gemini 10 ; garbage bags jettisoned by the Soviet cosmonauts throughout the Mir space station's 15-year life ; a wrench and a toothbrush.

Other programmes broadcast on YTV's opening day included the first edition of its regional news programme Calendar, the station's first networked production-the ' Playhouse ' drama Daddy Kiss it Better-and a light entertainment special, First Night, hosted by Bob Monkhouse.

Some of the experiments the Soviets described included studies of the heart and circulatory systems in orbit, studies of intracranial pressure, monitoring of blood composition, measuring of lung capacity and inhalation / exhalation rates and the testing of a water purification system which condensed moisture from the station's atmosphere.

Particular programmes which weren't shown an hour later included the premier of Sky1's Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, the station's latest adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

Mission milestones included: the delivery and installation of the SO ( S-Zero ) Truss ; the first time the station's robotic arm was used to maneuver spacewalkers around the station ; and the first time that all of a shuttle crew's spacewalks were based from the station's Quest Airlock.

Also, during the mid-1980s, the station's ID included a " Pet of the Day ," each of which was offered by a local viewer.

Immediately prior to the pending sale to Clear Channel, the station's programming included:

New brass door hardware and reproduction period light fixtures and plaster decorative work were included to reproduce the former character of the station's interior.

The cutbacks also affected the station's three-hour breakfast programme Channel M Breakfast, which had been airing on weekdays since 16 April 2007 and included regional news, weather, travel, sport, features and entertainment.

The station's studio in Wiltshire included two broadcast and production studios, several offices, a " glass room " ( meeting space ) ( dismantled in latter years ), a technical equipment hub, and a garden adjacent to the River Wylye.

The line-up at the station's closure included Roger Noble ( drivetime presenter ), Paul Ellery ( Breakfast presenter ), Simon Hancock ( News Editor ), Adina Campbell ( Journalist ), Jon Beese, Chris Hanson and Neil MacDonald.

Its investors, who included Terry Wogan and Chris de Burgh were anxious to secure a quick return on their money, and were unwilling to wait to see would the station's fortunes turn around.

The first show also included messages of congratulations from Kenny Everett at the equivalent local commercial station in London, Capital Radio, and from the station's first managing director Bruce Lewis.

These included radio hosts ' nicknames, the low pitched Americanised accent, strange noises ( such as the station's callsign ), forced laughter at poor jokes, an emphasis on playing new music and not repeating any tracks, segments that play the " greatest hits from the 80s, 90s and mid-90s ", large amounts of advertising and competitions-especially those that give away " cold hard cash ".

Many of these conflicts were dramatized in Stern's autobiographical book and film Private Parts which included an amusing scene where he is instructed by Metheny ( fictionalized for the film as Kenny Rushton, with a nickname change to " Pig Vomit ", and played by Paul Giamatti ) on the preferred " W-ehhNNN-B-C " pronunciation of the station's call letters.

As the deal only included the license for WNBC and not the station's intellectual property, GE would proceed to shut down the station for good.

Also, the redevelopment of the square around the station's entrance included the addition of a sculpture, Révolutions, by Michel de Broin.