Magic 1170

Alan Ross grew up listening to the three available radio stations in Britain , (count them - three! All run by the BBC). When offshore radio arrived in 1964 he was nearly a teenager, so you can guess how gutted he was when the government outlawed the pirates after just three years. Imagine how upset you'd be if Magic 1170 was taken off the air! All Alan ever wanted to be was a radio presenter, and he cut his teeth at hospital radio in and around London .

The first people to pay him for doing a radio programme were Pennine Radio in Bradford in June 1979. He repaid them by working for them on three separate occasions, ending up as General Manager and Programme Controller, in charge of its transformation in the early 1990s to The Pulse. He's also worked for DevonAir, Cardiff Broadcasting, Red Dragon Radio, Viking Radio (where he started Viking Gold, the forerunner of Magic 1161), Classic Gold, Lincs FM, and Touch Radio. Not forgetting Magic's sister station 96.6 TFM, where he hosted the Talk In for over two years..... As you can probably tell, radio is in his blood! 

Among many things he likes cats, pasta, New York and New Yorkers, North America, Quebec, Southern Spain & the Boro, and he dislikes patronising politicians, and people who don't say what they mean.... among the more bizarre things that working in radio has got him involved with, he's rung bells in a Devon church, broadcast live from the Rocky Mountain Railroad and Pirates of the Carribean rides at Disney World in Florida, and got his car stuck in a muddy field in Preston Park......