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Hospital radio to get more airtime

AFTER eight years of pleading for more time on air, a local hospital broadcasting service has been granted its request

Starting next month, the Hull and East Riding Hospital Broadcasting Service, through the co-operation of the Hull Telephones Department, will broadcast to six hospitals in the area for 24 hours each week.

Up to February last the service had only two and a half hours' broadcasting a week. Since then it has built the time up to seven hours, but this was not enough for its needs.

The service is run by amateurs, whose aim is to produce entertainment designed to have a special appeal for hospital patients and their relatives.

Up to the beginning of this year, broadcasts to hospitals went out by landline twice a week from the Wellington Street, Hull, studio.

'But with an average of 300 requests from patients, or messages from relatives to patients, it is just not possible to fit them all in' said Mr Ashley Howard, a member of the committee.