1978 Year Two
1978
Radio Heatherwood's lOO up club had eighty members.
An influx of staff produced increased broadcast times for Saturdays; with broadcasts from 1pm till 10pm.
This year the station spent £100 on replacement headsets for the wards. The radio teams this year were reported as trying to raise their own funds to replace headsets.
The pop duo, Peters and Lee were interviewed and the tape was broadcast.
The Windsor lions junior section, controlled the broadcasting for Sunday evenings.
The station had entered Capital radio's competition for hospital radio's and had been invited to attend a forum. Lots of new ideas had been formed and it was hoped that the service would be able to incorporate some of these and so improve content etc of programme's.
Radio Heatherwood was asked along with other Hospital broadcasting organization to help take part in a special Christmas broadcast of dedications for people in hospital by RADIO 210. Three members of the station, were selected to help.
Staff Joining This Year 5 Staff Leaving 1
Patient Record Request Form
An early request form. Over the years there has been many versions of this form.
At this point in time Radio Heatherwood was paying £30 for 900, which would last about 5 months.
That was the year that was 1978.
