Robbie Owen

Robbie Owen started his radio career in 1974 at a hospital radio station. Then in 1978 he became a true "pirate" presenting Top 40 on the offshore radio station "The Voice of Peace" off the coast of Israel. His association with the Voice of Peace lived on many years after his last visit in 1982, as his voice introduced and closed the nightly "Twilight Time" programme until the station closed in 1993.

In September 1990 he joined the newly established KCBC, a "golden oldies" station in Kettering, and progressed to be their Programme Controller in 1993-94.
At Christmas in 1990, he completed a freelance contract with the Austrian State Broadcaster the ORF, on Blue Danube Radio in Vienna, where he presented music along with news and interviews.
In 1993, 1995 and 1997 he completed working holidays at KOKO (Adult Contemporary + Local News format), the local commercial radio station established in 1952 to serve Warrensburg, Missouri, USA (near Kansas City). This gave him inside experience of how American local commercial radio really operates!

At KCBC he developed a show for aficionados of the 60's "beat boom" , which was later called the "Jukebox Drive-In". This programme aired weekly on the High Wycombe station elevenSEVENTY from 1995 to 2000, and from March 2001 the Jukebox Drive-In moved to hertbeat FM where Robbie was Programme Controller. This ran until May 2010.

Then, after hertbeat FM became Jack FM, the Jukebox Drive-In moved to community radio station Biggles FM in Potton, Bedfordshire, until July 2012. Then in October 2016, after a long break, it returned to Northamptonshire on the new community radio station NLive, where Robbie was a founding member. It then returned to the “KCBC area” in October 2017 on Corby Radio, each Sunday.

Today, presenting soul music is a new challenge for Robbie when he accepted an invitation to join ESR: Everything Soul Radio in July 2026, to present “The Quiet Storm”, Friday evenings at 10PM.