HUNDREDS of patients will on the same wavelength, following the launch of a new hospital radio station.
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust's new station will be run by 36 volunteers.
The scheme has cost £43,000 to set up and will operate in new studios at Queen's Park Hospital.
The radio station was originally founded under the name of Radio Blackburn in 1954 by Eddie Ellis and Bill Cunliffe, who had the idea of collecting requests from the hospital wards before taking them home to Eddie's garden shed to record them on to tape.
In 1958, Radio Hospitals, Blackburn, became the first hospital radio in the country to provide football commentary exclusively to hospital patients.
Radio Hospitals had its first studios in the YMCA in Blackburn and, in 1977, moved to Park Lee Hospital, Blackburn, where it remained until 1998, when the hospital closed.
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