[citation needed] Other original presenters on "Pennine 235" were Peter Levy,[citation needed] Stewart Francis, Roger Kirk, Julius K. Scragg, Liz Allen, Dorothy Box, Austin Mitchell (MP for Great Grimsby from 1977 to 2015), Mike Smith, Gerald Harper, Stewart Coxhead and Mike Hurley.
Later in the 1970s, Jim McVicar, Vyvyan Mackeson (later going to YTV), Barbara Groom (later going to LBC and now BBC World Service Editor), Tim Wyatt, Gerry Radcliffe, Will Venters (later going to YTV) and Christa Ackroyd (a former presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar and later BBC Look North), [1] [2] [3][permanent dead link].
Andy and Tony teamed up to become Ronnie and Gordon Groovesticker on Pennine's tea-time soap opera Mulberry Terrace which ran from spring 1985 to summer 1986.
Having resigned the original franchise early, Managing Director Mike Boothroyd, Programme Controller Will Venters, Chief Engineer Steve Bowley, Sports Editor Tony Delahunty and the rest of the team at Pennine House were thrilled to win back their franchise, which transformed the station from one of the UK's smallest Independent Local Radio (ILR) stations to one of the biggest.
[citation needed] After the takeover of YRN by the Metro Radio Group, Pennine FM was rebranded as The Pulse of West Yorkshire.
In November of the same year, EMAP was forced to sell both The Pulse and its AM sister service, Great Yorkshire Gold - regulations at the time prevented the same owner operating the overlapping AM licences.
Some jingles in later packages produced by Alfasound, the UK agent for JAM Creative Productions, contained vocals by soul singer Jimmy Helms.