Bernie Quayle Wonderful World of the  Wireless A Career in Radio  Page 2

If you've listened to the audio clip on the previous page, you will have heard  Peter Kneale reading the news "as supplied by the Examiner News desk."   Yes, the local papers supplied our news copy in those days and it was Terry  Cringle's job to pop the news copy in our letter box ready for broadcast  next  morning. Pictured left, I'm interviewing Terry for our "Factory Requests"  programme, our equivalent of the BBC programme, "Down Your Way"  Charles Webster is recording and Curwen Clague, managing editor of the  Examiner watches.  Sadly, none of these programmes were ever archived, we  couldn't afford to keep replacing the tapes !   Nowadays, every minute of our  broadcast day is recorded in broadcast quality and then compressed for  storage on DVD. There is one disc for each 24 hour period. August 20th 2007 update Following the broadcast of my 40th anniversary programme, I was presented with a cassette of a Factory Requests programme form 1968.  Ronnie Cowin was company secretary for Heron & Brearley and he kindly let me have a copy of tape, if you click on the link, you'll hear my 2 min' interview with Ronnie from December 1968. Ronnie Cowin also gave me the picture on the right, . It is the Manx Radio cricket team circa 1966. Back row left to right: Boy, Jack Cretney, Ronnie Corrin, Peter Kneale, David Callister Front row: Sidney Magee, Garth Quayle, Stuart Lord, John Grierson, ?? Bill Cain. With the pirate radio stations being closed down by the Marine Offences bill,  the Manx Government saw an opportunity to expand  our service to become Britain's first national commercial station.  Negotiations with the UK Government were well underway and the  on-air staff were beginning to worry that all the former pirates, who were now household names across the British Isles, would be  knocking on our door looking for jobs.   We all felt very amateur by comparison.  It was Daffy Don Allen, who'd joined us from  Radio Caroline, that suggested that I take myself off to his home town in Canada to gain "real commercial radio" experience in order  to secure my future with Manx Radio.  Don (pictured belowt) was a very big influence in my early career. Emigrating to Canada seemed too much at the time and as my sister Pauline had recently moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, I thought a few weeks there would be enough to give me some good background at least.  In September 1968, Pauline very kindly made a number of appointments for me to meet the programme directors at all the major stations in the area, there were 10 in total. WKGN was first on her list,  a top 40 station, loved by the students of the University and rated number one in the youth market The next station, WATE was more like the format on Manx Radio, aimed at a more mature listener.. In both cases,  I was offered a job!         Each station I visited kept telling me how great it would be to have a British sounding DJ on air  in America at the height of the British  pop invasion, it would have been quite a coup for them.   But it was WNOX that made me an offer I couldn't refuse.  See the "Sir Bernard" page. On the left, dressed in my Carnaby Street gear, ready to take on the USA.