A difficult call as I'm drawn to different aspects for different reasons. I was at work Fridays but managed to coerce the girls to listen in - we had the awful Trent FM play list weekdays that they liked to sing a long with....got one covert out of it though. I was also out clubbing in late 90's to 2001. My tapes from that era are bitty and interspersed with Pete Tong, save a couple of little mixes I've uploaded, hence I've the tunes but don't know the artist - except for the obvious classics. So I can't really tell how good a show is by just looking at the listing.....it's nice to take a chance and get a surprise and think 'I've got that!', but I don't like all that cheesy disco-esque type stuff.
Early '00s I stayed in with the radio on - up dating the Saturday footy data for our syndicate. But there were some powerful mixes from that era - so I can't say the earlier shows win hands down 'cos to me it was the mixes that made it. His shows just built up to that final half hour. (He did have a phase of playing something particularly dreadful in this era which just wasn't music - perhaps he was just nob twiddling........ thing is, I can still hear that shite!)
Finally stopped listening 2006 so can't comment.