Steve Martin <...> said:
I'm probably also in a minority when it comes to Laser, most people seem to
think it was the "bees knees", but I just thought it was "poor man's" Nova!
I much preferred the English and Irish voices on Nova and Sunshine to the
Yanks on Laser!

From what I can recall Laser was great and gave not only radio in this country a good kick up the @r$e that it needed, it also did the same for Caroline as they actually started broadcasting a loose format that tightened things up. I can't remember the exact time but there were some good capable presenters on there like Johnny Lewis, Kevin Turner.

To be fair on hindsight Caroline was always a hit or miss affair throughout her history, occasionally a Tony Allen would come along but for the majority they were learning there trade with no real proper strong PC. I suppose to be honest I listened to Caroline most of the time as it was unpredictable, it was like the first reality show on the radio, were they going to be there, were they not the format was secondary which is probably why no other station landbased has ever captured my imagination and probably never will.

Steve