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Duration 1'50"	BBC Six O'clock News 29th December 1988

BBC TV's Radio Revolution programme A documentary shown on BBC Midlands television looks towards the revolution of radio in Coventry, broadcast in January 1990 (if I remember correctly) reflecting the recent frequency split of Mercia Sound to form Mercia FM and XTRA AM, also looks at the imminent launches of the BBC's CWR and the new incremental station Radio Harmony.
Duration 1'36"	Opening sequence
Duration 1'53"	Mercia splits / CWR launches
Duration 2'53"	Commercial v's BBC
Duration 2'48"	Mercia merges
Duration 3'04"	FM or AM - The future!