Rediffusion

[mercurydancer 1,104]

I recall Dennis McCarthy with affection. he called his daughter the "youngest DJ in the world" Her name was Carla?

[Blondie 1,392]

Mercurydancer - I loved listening to them on Sunday mornings - I think her name is Tara and she is now a Barrister............

[mercurydancer 1,104]

Tara, thats her!

[Merthyr Imp 729]

When she was first on he used to call her 'the world's worst DJ'. I remember his son - known as 'Digger' for some reason - also used to be on, or may have been the show's producer.

[bamber 128]

Help, I've become an unwilling Rediffusion cable spotter! Once your eyes are trained you can't help but notice the stuff allover the place. I need treatment. Quick!

[katyjay 5,091]

I remember reading about Dennis McCarthy's funeral, I think half of Nottingham turned out to line the streets as the hearse went past. By the way how did you pronounce Rediffusion? For us it was Red-iffusion, posher folks said Reedi-fusion.

[Cliff Ton 10,483]

Dennis - you either loved listening to him or couldn't stand him. Eventually, he wasn't broadcasting just to the Radio Nottingham area, the programme was also transmitted via Radio Derby, Leicester and Lincoln. He had the total monopoly of radio listeners over the age of 50 in the east midlands.

And yes katyjay, the combined funerals of Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria, and Lady Di would have been overshadowed by the Dennis event.

[Commo 1,292]

Blinkin eck Katy, never knew as a wer posh !!

[bamber 128]

By the way how did you pronounce Rediffusion? For us it was Red-iffusion, posher folks said Reedi-fusion.

Well as the word means to re-distribute it has to be the latter.

[TBI 2,351]

Dennis Mccarthy lived not far from us in Bingham on the A46. You'd see him around the market place sometimes and he was always bright and breezy. He was certainly an institution, especially to the old folk, my dad was a huge fan.

BTW we always called it Reddy-fusion.

[Tim in the North East 200]

Although the later switch boxes had channels A to L - the channels after about G or H were not wired up. This meant that when Radio Nottingham came along they had to share a channel with BBC2 (possibly F). During the day you got Radio Nottingham sound and BBC2 pictures (as BBC2 then only showed its test card and occasional afternoon 'test' documentary film in the mornings and afternoons) and then from early evening it was BBC2 sound and pictures. This was a problem if you wanted to watch the BBC2 afternoon documentaries (e.g. when you were off sick from school) or listen to Radio Nottingham in the evening!

We must have been posh - we called it Reedifusion!

Tim

[mick2me 3,033]

Two Rediffusion vehicles