 "Top of The Pops" was a weekly half-hour programme of current popular music, initially conceived and produced by Johnnie Stewart, first broadcast from a converted church in Rusholme Manchester on 1 January 1964.Samantha Juste was assistant to Cecil Korer, the programme's assistant producer.After the first few episodes, Juste replaced Denise Sampey; for 3½ years she sat alongside the host (initially disc jockeys Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, Alan Freeman and Pete Murray), to place records on a turntable and apply the stylus as the artist was about to perform.