Paul Rusling
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Paul Rusling is an East Yorkshire
public house
and restaurant owner, disc jockey
and former radio and publishing entrepreneur who has also identified himself during radio programmes as Paul Alexander.
where he hosted the breakfast programme. In the mid-1970s he moved to London and managed several pubs and clubs.
In 1981 Rusling became a broadcast consultant and worked at several radio stations, including Laser 558
. Rusling was also contracted as a consultant to broadcast projects in the Middle East
, Europe
and Scandinavia
and assisted with license applications for stations in the United Kingdom
, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Russia, including work with Nozema, Sky Radio and Radio 10 Gold. He was a director of several radio companies, including Yorkshire Coast Radio
. On the Isle of Man
Rusling was founder of a company which was licensed to launch an international broadcasting station MusicMann279.
Rusling chaired forums at the Mix Mag International DJ Convention in London in 1986, and at several technical forums, e.g. IEEE conference in Washington. He has published several books including training manuals for radio stations and other speciality publications such as The Lid Off Laser 558 (ISBN 0-948055-00-6) and a "Who's Who in British Radio" (ISBN 1900401045). From 1989 to 1991 he and his wife published a weekly paid-for newspaper in East Yorkshire called the Haltemprice Herald.
East Yorkshire
East Yorkshire could be:*East Yorkshire Motor Services*An alternative name for the East Riding of Yorkshire*East Yorkshire , a former district of Humberside*East Yorkshire...
public house
Public house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...
and restaurant owner, disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
and former radio and publishing entrepreneur who has also identified himself during radio programmes as Paul Alexander.
Life
Paul Rusling attended school in Hull, England and in his spare time performed as a disc jockey in clubs and ballrooms. He then studied radio engineering at Hull College of Technology and became a ship's radio officer. In 1973 he joined Radio CarolineRadio Caroline
Radio Caroline is an English radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly...
where he hosted the breakfast programme. In the mid-1970s he moved to London and managed several pubs and clubs.
In 1981 Rusling became a broadcast consultant and worked at several radio stations, including Laser 558
Laser 558
Laser 558 was an offshore pirate radio station launched in May 1984 by a consortium of British and American business and broadcasting executives, some of whom have never been named. Laser 558 used disc jockeys recruited from the USA. The station was aboard the ship the MV Communicator in...
. Rusling was also contracted as a consultant to broadcast projects in the Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
and assisted with license applications for stations in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Russia, including work with Nozema, Sky Radio and Radio 10 Gold. He was a director of several radio companies, including Yorkshire Coast Radio
Yorkshire Coast Radio
Yorkshire Coast Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in the seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. YCR is officially two Ofcom licenses, one for Scarborough and Whitby in North Yorkshire and one for Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.-History:For many years several...
. On the Isle of Man
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...
Rusling was founder of a company which was licensed to launch an international broadcasting station MusicMann279.
Rusling chaired forums at the Mix Mag International DJ Convention in London in 1986, and at several technical forums, e.g. IEEE conference in Washington. He has published several books including training manuals for radio stations and other speciality publications such as The Lid Off Laser 558 (ISBN 0-948055-00-6) and a "Who's Who in British Radio" (ISBN 1900401045). From 1989 to 1991 he and his wife published a weekly paid-for newspaper in East Yorkshire called the Haltemprice Herald.
See also
- MusicMann279 - details of the proposed international radio station in the Isle of Man
External links
- http://www.thetritoninn.com - Paul & Anne Rusling's restaurant in East Yorkshire
- http://www.cwgsy.net/private%2Foffshorepirateradio/laser1.html - Story of Laser 558
- http://www.laserradio.net/history/ Laser 558 web site
- icce.rug.nl - Paul Rusling on Radio Caroline.
- offshore-radio.de - Offshore radio reunion.
- http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djs7a.htm Paul Alexander on Radio Caroline
- http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsb.htm - Pirate Radio Hall of Fame
- http://www.offshoreradio.de/fleet/kingdavid2.htm - The King David, a Mediterranean radio ship
- http://www.antennex.com/Stones/st0402/propthis.html The Crossed Field Antenna