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John Magnetron. Waves FM, Tenerife 2000 - 2002 Once described as one of the worst DJ’s ever to have broadcast in the history of Radio, John Magnetron, managed to keep his job as a DJ, Radio Presenter for two years. The point of contention in these two years was that he tried to copy the former BBC Radio Presenter ‘Jimmy Savile’ in a program, which he insisted on quoting (was) ‘The Old Record Club’ A direct parallel with the BBC’s ‘Old Record Club’ broadcast at the same time on The  Radio on a Sunday Afternoon, in Tenerife, as the BBC broadcast their original ‘Old Record Club’ by which time Jimmy Savile was no longer the presenter.

Radio Listeners said that while they enjoyed listening to an orderly line up of nostalgic tunes, they could not understand why John Magnetron’s program was made up of the original seven inch 45 R.P.M Records, when they had already heard some of the tunes played in much higher quality on the same Radio Station on other days, and that they could not understand why John Magnetron’s program contained Records that sometimes were scratched or in pour condition. Magnetron insisted that there was nothing wrong with copying the BBC’s idea, as, he said, ‘that there were only three points that were similar‘. The first was that, during the 1970’s he had listened to Jimmy Savile on the Radio, and he had admired the thing that he thought was most important, which was that ‘Savile’ would say for example ‘give yourself three points if you can remember the artist’ which John Magnetron said he thought was a good idea, and defended that there had been many telephone calls to Waves FM asking if it was a competition. John said, in an interview, ‘There were other DJ’s that had Food Mixers, and Washing Machines to give away, but I thought Jimmy Savile and his Producer’s idea of making it purely a personal thing in one’s own mind could do no harm’ The other two things John Magnetron upheld, were quite simply that the name ‘The Old Record Club’ best described what he was doing, and that the cycle of years, being similar to the BBC’s ‘Old Record Club’ worked well, although he said that there were now more years since the UK Hit Parade  begun in 1952 so he had adapted the program to accommodate a cycle that would suit the audience better. And that as everyone was in Tenerife, or a near by island, he saw no reason not to use the UK Top 75 that he got from ‘The Guinness Book Of Records’ which would have been the same as the BBC chart, rather than use the commercial chart

Later on in time, questions were asked, as to whether John Magnetron had ever been a guest on Jimmy Savile’s Television program, either ‘Clunk Click’ or ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ when he was a boy, and if, during the time that he was on Radio, he had been promoting ’Jimmy Savile’ as he admitted to mentioning him on his show, to which he exclaimed that he had never met the famous Radio and Television Presenter who was categorically accused of being a sex offender during the early years of the second decade of the Millennium, after his lifetime. John Magnetron said that he did not know Jimmy Savile’s sexual orientation, at all at the time, and also admitted to having been sent as a child to boarding school, and in admitting that his free time there, comprised of listening to popular music and Radio One DJ’s, his reflection of his program was to try to make Waves FM, sound as much like BBC Radio One during the 70’s as possible, rather than the Savile ’Old Record Club Program’ he said that it was more like Noel Edmunds’s show, where Noel Edmunds always used to talk over the musical introductions of a Record. John Magnetron also said that it was the program idea that had consumed him, although he really was not such a fan of the Radio DJ’s that he admitted to tying to copy which was a direct controversy with what he had said about his admiration of the actual Radio Programs that he had listen to whilst he was a boy.

Since January 2016 John Magnetron, has undertaken the long task of uploading the majority of popular records from the 1970’s as Video’s on the internet site ‘Youtube’ which he contests are played at exactly the same speed as BBC Radio One had played them when they were in the UK Hit Parade Chart, and which he writes about, saying that, there are times where he can not find the original recording on the internet, and that internet sites, have been populated by live versions, rather than the original version of each recording. And that even computerized normalization makes the sound tracks sound unlike the original record. He also claims that his videos contain a necessary pictorial set of identification pictures for the sake of the Artist. His claim that there is a Sky Arts Documentary where there are two men from the Music Business who reminisce of how the Record Decks at BBC Radio One made the songs that they had produced, sound slightly slower and therefore out of key is yet to be verified