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Loyal listeners to Team-FM will know exactly what we are talking about here. Our festive anthem has always been "Once Upon a Christmas Song" by Geraldine McQueen otherwise known as Peter Kay.
And, once again, the Airsleigh40 chart is open!

Airsleigh40 is a top 40 chart of the favourite Christmas songs as voted for by you which we always hear on the station towards the big day. Our Christmas anthem is usually in the top 10, and we'd love to see it get a really high position this time.

So, if you can spare the time, please vote! Here is how to do it.

The secret is out. After 40 years, ABBA are back in town. With two new songs available right now with the remainder of an album to follow in November, there's a lot for ABBA fans still to discover. Some people have waited the best part of a lifetime for this moment.

For a number of years on the Music Machine, I've produced ABBA specials. I am a huge ABBA fan: I have many books about them, (some are better than others), and know a good deal about their music. What do I think of the new material that we've heard so far? Join me on Saturday at 7 PM to find out.

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We're always looking for high quality entertainment to bring you each week on Team-FM. It has to be as good as we can get it as you only deserve the best. So, a new series of the award-winning Totally 80's returns!

Totally 80's is professionally hosted by well-known British broadcaster Gary King. Gary was the first presenter on Atlantic 252, He then spent nearly two years at BBC Radio 1, he's worked for Capital FM and Jazz FM together with Smooth Radio.

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Sadly during the past few weeks, one of our primary presenters and Manager of our station, Lulu, has suffered ill health. This has made it quite difficult for her to complete the shows for Team-FM to the standard we have always thought our listeners should receive.

Yes it's true. On 19 June this year, this version of Team-FM will have been on the air without interruption for five years. Loyal listeners will know that we do not celebrate the station's birthday annually. In fact sometimes, even we forget it and let it go by and just keep producing the best shows we can. But given the date falls on a Saturday, we thought we would do something a little more special.

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You may have seen from our Schedule page that we've made a few small changes for the time being.

In the Music Machine at 7 PM Saturday, our mini theme is Eurovision. Now That's What I Call Eurovision was released today, so we'll tell you what's good and not so good about the album, play plenty of Eurovision tracks and we'll include songs from the actual contests. The whole of hour 2 of the show is devoted to Eurovision. In hour 1, we have our usual features.

Sadly, it has been quite a week for high profile celebrities in the music business passing away this week.

You will have heard that Jim Steinman died on 19 April. He was a composer, lyricist, Record Producer and Playwright. He did a great deal of work with artists such as Air Supply, Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler, to name but three. He will be sadly missed.

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Easter is approaching, and we have a long holiday weekend. We always try to do something a little different during this period, and so we have a slight change to our shows this coming Sunday. For the many people who tell us they love Retro Day, that isn't going anywhere.

A very happy new year to everyone.

We really hope you enjoyed our special holiday programming. We loved producing it for you.

Our usual shows all return this week together with a new one, the Magic Carpet Ride, all the good music from children's animated movies. There's plenty of Disney, but plenty of music from other movies too, including songs from some of the big names in pop. So do join Lulu for that one, Saturday at 5 PM.

Here at Team-FM we pride ourselves on the variety of music we play. You can hear songs from the past ninety years of recorded music, from folk to funk, jazz to jive, from the dance tunes of the 1930's to the dance tune that was released two days ago. But recently we've been thinking about the kind of music we hear when we watch some of our favourite movies. When do we hear that on Team-FM? Usually only once a year. All that is about to change!.