Torbay Hospital
Radio started life in the seventies when its members (all of whom
are volunteers) broadcast to patients staying in Torbay hospital
from a small windowless room in the bowels of the hospital.
Thankfully, in 1977, the hospital’s League of Friends gave the
station new, purpose-built studios with windows and lots of space to
hold all its equipment and the record library.
In 1994, the station
was re-launched with a new management committee and named “Radio
Active”. Two years later in 1996 the studio was upgraded and a new
sound mixer installed. Since then computers have been introduced, to
assist in maintaining the record library and also to allow the
station to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Today, Torbay Hospital Radio volunteers are responsible for bringing their
listeners a wide variety of music, information, conversation and
sport via the Premierline system, through which people can also
phone in free to request their favourite tune.
Some of the members of THR have been with the station for
over twenty years and have helped to create the history you have
just read about, but we are always looking for new members to help
us write the next chapter in the history of Torbay Hospital Radio.
If you would like to get involved, please go to the contact us
page.
