Search for 50s

We’ve searched for media titles (including their former names and callsigns), tags, places, and people named ‘50s’, and for media news stories. We’ve also attempted to correct some misspellings, too.

Media titles and organisations

Radio

3SH

Swan Hill 

Boom Light

UK 

Absolute Radio 90s

UK 

All Oldies Radio

Herts, Beds & Bucks 

Antenna Radio

Manchester 

BGfm Community Radio

Blaenau Gwent 

boom 97.3

Toronto 

Boom Radio

UK 

Calder Valley Radio

Calder Valley, West Yorkshire 

CandoFM 106.3 107.3

Barrow in Furness and Ulverston 

Chesil Radio

Dorset, Hampshire, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset 

Classic Hits

UK 

Classic Hits 103.7

San Francisco, CA 

Delite Radio

London, Birmingham, Freeview TV CH 277, Freely TV CH 566 National TV Coverage, UK & Worldwide 

Geronimo

UK 

Greatest Hits Radio Sussex

Sussex 

Heart 00s

UK 

Ignite Radio

Exeter 

Jazz Radio

France 

Laser558

UK 

Max

Newcastle & Gateshead 

Mid Sussex Radio

Burgess Hill, Hassocks, Ditchling and Hurstpierpoint 

NEON Radio

UK 

NonStopOldies.com

 

1 Brighton FM

Brighton & Hove 

Pride Radio

Newcastle-upon-Tyne 

Radio TugaNet

London 

Radio X 90s Manchester

Manchester 

Reverse FM UK

Belfast 

Ritzy

UK 

Rock 101

Vancouver 

Susy Radio

Redhill, Reigate, Horley, Gatwick, Crawley, Parts of Tandridge and Mole Valley 

Swinging Radio 60s

Portsmouth 

SWU.FM

Bristol 

Triple M Esperance

Esperance, WA 

Triple M Limestone Coast

Mount Gambier, SA & the Limestone Coast 

Television

S4C

Cymru / Wales 

Scuzz

 

showcase

Australia 

Sky Showcase

UK & Ireland 

Sky Replay

UK 

Magazines

Schuh

 

Scuz

 

She

 

Show House

 

SW

 

Other organisations

Saga

 

Sky

 

Based in ‘50s’

Newspapers

Eastbourne Advertiser

 

Eastbourne Gazette

 

Eastbourne Herald

 

Horsham Advertiser

 

West Sussex County Times

Horsham district 

Magazines

Friday-Ad

Various  

Media news archive

The Block heads back to the ’50s

TV Tonight - published 2 years, 8 months ago

Daily’s 1950s delivery van gets new lease of life at open-air museum

Hold the Front Page - published 3 years ago

Regional news title for over 50s nominated for royal honour

Hold the Front Page - published 4 years ago

Gallery: Mirror legend Donald Zec pictured with stars of 1950s and 1960s after death aged 102

Press Gazette - published 4 years, 3 months ago

Getting typecast in a 1950s newsroom | Brief letters

The Guardian - published 4 years, 4 months ago

Free DAB radio sets for the over 50s from BCfm

RadioToday - published 4 years, 10 months ago

2RRR recalls Sydney Radio in the 1950s

radioinfo.com.au - published 5 years, 5 months ago

Ofcom has approved a Format change request which will see JACK 3 replace JACK 2 on 107.9FM in Oxford. JACK 2, which currently plays a mix of new and recent chart music for 15-29 years olds, will now be rebranded as ‘JACK 3’ playing ‘easy hits for the over 50s.’ The published Format will change […]

RadioToday - published 5 years, 10 months ago

The decade that changed TV: BBC reveals Radio Times magazines from the 1950s

BBC Media Centre - published 5 years, 11 months ago

Medium Rare launches over-50s magazine with Greenstone

Mumbrella - published 6 years ago

Jeremy Paxman made Saga columnist as over-50s magazine revamps under new editor

Press Gazette - published 6 years, 7 months ago

Jacki Weaver on being forever young: 'I’m 71, I still get offered roles for women in their 50s'

The Guardian - published 6 years, 11 months ago

Welcome to the new (old) moralism: how the media’s coverage of the Joyce affair harks back to the 1950s

Mumbrella - published 7 years, 10 months ago

As big as television in the 1950s – the ABC lays out plans for the next 20 years

Mumbrella - published 7 years, 10 months ago

Editor and other Saga Magazine journalists axed in pre-season mass redundancies at over-50s group

Press Gazette - published 8 years ago

We’ve returned the last fifteen stories - there are 27 in our database.