Mike Stewart
A reporter/newsreader for BRMB Radio and Head of News at Beacon Radio, Mike was tempted to Bristol as Radio West’s first Head of News & Sport in 1981, and built up excellent local news coverage with a team of nine reporters. In 1983 he became Programme Controller in place of Dave Cash. Mike has a liking for soul music and presented or co-presented many programmes on West (and on Radio Broadland) dealing with the genre. In 1984 Mike left Bristol for Norwich, to become Radio Broadland’s first programme controller. A number of features familiar to Radio West listeners, such as Tom Clapton’s Saturday SuperSquares, subsequently also appeared on Broadland, and that station met with a massive success, proving to me what Radio West could have achieved with a better start. Mike stayed with the company after it became part of the GWR empire, and became MD at Broadland’s sister stations, SGR fm at Ipswich & SGR Colchester. All these stations, like Radio West itself, are now Heart. He left GWR in late 2002 and has since been involved in groups applying for new licences.