Presenters and Staff
Tony West, formerly with Chiltern Radio and Atlantic 252 was the first official voice on KLFM. At 8am on Wednesday the 1 July 1992 he opened the station with the words "It's 8 o'clock on Wednesday the 1st of July 1992. This is your very first independent radio station, broadcasting from studios in Blackfriars Street, King's Lynn - KLFM!" The first song played was Bachman–Turner Overdrive's 1974 hit, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".
Paul Baker had originally been lined up for the job of weekday Breakfast presenter but management thought the West Norfolk area wouldn't understand his Scottish accent and so gave him a show at 8am on weekends.
Other presenters included Mandy Walker, Mervin J Futter, singer-songwriter Terry McKenna, Warren Davies, Steve Allen, Craig Morris, Mick & Sarah-Jane, Chris Brown and Harry Giltrap. 'Networked' shows on the station included programmes featuring Jimmy Savile, David Hamilton and Dave Lee Travis whose syndicated programme was broadcast from 10 am on Sunday mornings from October 1993 via satellite radio station 'Quality Europe FM'. Another former national radio presenter is Gary King, formerly of Atlantic 252 and BBC Radio 1, who presents 'Totally 80s' every Sunday, 2-4 pm until 25 February 2007.
Even Hospital Radio Lynn, the town's Hospital radio service, linked up for 2 hours of requests on a Saturday evening.
Other members of the original team included Peter Robinson (news) and Sasha Twining (news and presentation), Paul Gardner, Richard Tree and Sarah Harding (all 3 in sales), Jim Warwick (engineer based at Hereward Radio), and Amanda Wildman (on reception).
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