Supergold

In 1987, Graham Kentsley a young entertainment music and media entrepreneur and satellite communication expert from St Albans UK.

Kentsley being a music and radio enthusiast had previously installed the first Satellite TV/Radio system in any licensed premises (The Adelaide Wine House in St Albans UK).

"Supergold" was put off the air for a whole night on one occasion when a cow chewed the ISDN line somewhere outside Clacton in Rural Essex UK.

Supergold used an innovative sub-audio tone switching system to allow local stations on the network to opp in and out of the program's the system was developed by Graham Kentsley and his brother technical director Steven Kentsley - to the listener it sounded as if they were listening to their own local radio station during this overnight period allowing affiliates to substantially cut their operating costs.

Supergold broadcast its experimental service successfully for approx 6 months signing up several European affiliates including stations in Spain, the Channel Islands (UK)/France Contact 94 - Gibraltar (GBC) and Vienna in Austria (Blue Danube Radio).

[9] However it became clear to Kentsley and to the TSMN management that they would not be able to reach the critical mass of radio affiliates required to make the station commercially viable after this initial trial period.

It achieved a 17% reach in a JICRAR survey; some say much to the disgust of its Southern Radio Group bosses who, it has been said, preferred their AM stations to hover around the 9% mark.

Burrell later went on to become the Breakfast Show presenter, and Morgan became the Head of Music for the SuperGold network, and latterly the Programme Controller of SuperGold, as well as presenting most of the station's 'specialist programmes inc. Beatles Hour, Classic Soul Hour, Rock & Roll - The Real Thing (co-hosted with Burrell), Get on The Right Track (a classic Album Track show).