Personally I think that Caroline only started to lose it's consistency during 1990. Up until then it was still pretty good in my opinion. I agree that they increasingly struggled against the ILR competition at that time. Lots of former Caroline people had moved on to Invicta, Coast, Breeze and Essex FM and they were all first rate stations. Such a shame that within a few years they were all swallowed up by the big radio groups and disappeared completely. And so did Caroline.