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Channel 107/Cream - August 2020 Schedules

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 Channel 107/Cream - August 2020 Schedules Sunday 2nd August 2020 (Wirral Wave) 2pm The Museum of TV Themes of the North & North West TV Themes from Northern England's most famous programmes. Monday 3rd August 2020  (ReachOnAir) 11pm Chill - Just Beautiful Songs (1989-1997) Just the most beautiful songs between 1989 and 1997. Recently broadcast on Wirral Wave Radio. Tuesday 4th August 2020 (ReachOnAir) 11pm NEW! Hits of Now 6 & 106 Now 106 covered the hits released during the lockdown summer of 2020 (notably missing Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande's massive hit "Rain On Me"), whilst the Now re-issues from the 80's continued  The best hits from the 2020 lockdown summer and 35 years ago as featured on the newly released Now 106 & Now 6 from late in 1985! Ed - led to a personal fallout with the Now That's What I Call Music Collectors Group trying to promote this show to their Now fangrop on Facebook, since created another one and joined another one. The...

Channel 107 & Cream - July 2020 Schedules

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Channel 107 & Cream  - July 2020 Schedules Wednesday 1st July 2020 (ReachOnAir) 12Midnight - Chill - Just Beautiful Songs - One Song, One Year (1989-2002) Chilled songs one year after another. First broadcast on Bridge County FM Sunday 5th July 2020 (Wirral Wave) 2pm-3pm Big Summer Songs Monday 6th July 2020 (ReachOnAir) 5pm Big Summer Songs - One Song, One Year (1974-1989) 11pm Best of Now 4 & 104 The best choices from the re-issued Now 4 from 1984 and the hits of late 2019 on Now 104. Wednesday 8th July 2020 (ReachOnAir) 1pm - UK Top 100 of the Tens (#100-86) The first part of the epic Top 100 best selling, streaming and downloading singles of the Tens decade in the UK. Friday 10th July 2020 (ReachOnAir) 1am The UK Top 40 of 2019  The official top selling, streaming and downloading singles of 2019. 3.20 Every UK No.1 Of The Year 1980-1989 The best sellers of each year in the UK. (listen on Mixcloud) Sunday 12th July 2020 (ReachOnAir) 1pm Big Summer Songs - One Song, ...

Detention With Mr Dodd - Episode Guide

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Detention With Mr Dodd (Those That Can Do, Those That Can't Teach) Airing on Channel 107/GOODLAUG radio is a series about a school where Miss Trunchbull from Matilda would seem like a more lenient option. If it's not so authoritarian you couldn't even blink without being given detention, so brutal that you could ask for help from Amnesty International, life in the school is so ridiculous that the only thing you could learn in the school is how stupid some people are. Welcome to the world of Detention With Mr Dodd! Characters Mr Dodd - Timid, meak and completely subservient to authority, whilst he is completely dominated by his egotistical and tyrannical boss he is petty and exacting about what he expects from his students and fairly ruthless about it, apart from the dedication to his work he has so little other personality that he is often labelled boring, he realises that his only success is what little he gets out of his teaching and feels that the rest of his life is a ...

Now That's What I Call a Milestone!

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  Listen to Now That's What I Call The Middle Of The Night on Bridge County FM/Cream, and various other shows dedicated to playing the hits of the Now albums, just don't mention it on one of the official Now album fan groups on Facebook (Ed - as I was kicked off for doing so!) The chart compilation series has been going now for over 35 years, not only offering a convenient single release to get most of the latest chart music but also now many spin off releases giving an easy place to get the biggest dance, disco, country hits etc.  The latest chart music releases has now reached the number of 106 in July 2020 to date, with the 1st one on record/cassette having been released back in 1983.  CDs followed with Now 4, and continuously from Now 8, tapes continued until Now 63 in 2006, you could get the latest Now on vinyl which was once the dominant format until Now 35 in 1996 (super rare if you can find that one!) Here are some of the most major milestones for the se...