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VHF (FM) broadcasts from Radio Jackie were heard on Saturday nights. Other stations began to appear on VHF and an organisation along the lines of the then IBA (The Independent Broadcasting Authority) was formed to put out different programmes on different nights.
This become the famous 'London Transmitter of Independent Radio' and was started by a man identified on air as Abe Cohen. Formally involved with Radio Jackie and a former television engineer, 'Abe' built his own sophisticated fifty watt transistorised transmitter which began broadcasting as Radio Aquarius, a station dedicated to playing easy listening 'sweet music' and identified itself as 'The Station Of The Stars'.
Abe Cohen formed the L.T.I.R. which broadcast nightly on 94.4 VHF and gave free access of his transmitter to groups or stations who did not have the finance or technical expertise to transmit, in return for their own high quality programmes.
Signing on nightly with the 'Born Free' instrumental theme, some of the stations heard on the L.T.I.R. included Radio Aquarius on Friday nights, Radio London Underground on Sunday nights (which grew out of the London Underground programme on Radio Jackie VHF), Radio Star, Radio Odyssey, Radio Classic and eventually Radio Jackie.
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