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The Hospital Broadcasting Association has cancelled the 2021 Conference and Awards event due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event was scheduled for March in Bolton but the team in charge doesn’t want to take any risks at…
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Colchester’s local station Actual Radio is now available to listeners across Essex on DAB Digital Radio. The service has been streaming online since 2017 but has decided to make the move to a terrestrial platform to better serve local…
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Former Signal 107 presenter Dicky Dodd has joined Wolverhampton community station WCR FM to host the breakfast show. Dicky covered the breakfast show last week but has decided to stay on for the foreseeable future after a sponsor was found.…
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Poole community radio station Hot Radio has been warming up the crowds at a Drive In Movie venue. Presenters entertained people in their cars with music and interaction before the movies started, via a local FM transmitter which carried the…
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Former Rutland Radio presenter Rob Persani has been appointed to lead a new project for Rutland County Council looking establishing a community radio station for Rutland. The Council started the new project following a rebranding of Rutland…
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Former Century and Wish FM presenter Tony Horne has left community broadcaster Rossendale Radio, with both parties issuing statements about the change.
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Soul, Funk and Jazz station Street Sounds Radio has launched in Essex on DAB digital radio..
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BCfm is launching a new local oral history podcast called 12 Communities 1 Bristol. The series, by Marcus Smith, is in partnership with Bristol Museums, Bristol Archives, UWE Bristol and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Each of…
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The first 25 small-scale DAB radio multiplex licences are being advertised today by Ofcom. Applicants now have 12 weeks to prepare and submit applications, while stations wanting a Community Digital Sound Programme (C-DSP) licence to…
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Ofcom has awarded more community radio stations with emergency cash through the Community Radio Fund.
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Gateway 97.8 has produced a special documentary to reflect on the past six months of Lockdown in its local area. Station Editor Johnny Jenkins has created the show which includes interviews with local people and community groups recorded…
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Former Capital FM East Midlands breakfast team Dino, Pete and Tyles are joining a community radio station in Derbyshire. They will return with a weekly show each Sunday as part of a new weekend schedule at the station. Dean…
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Ofcom has fined community radio station Ujima Radio £500 for failing to produce its annual finance report on time. Under its licence conditions, Ujima Radio was required to submit its 2018 finance reports in March 2019, but missed the…
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A new eight-part series exploring the influences and important songs in the lives of Jazz FM’s superstar musicians starts this weekend. The Music That Made Me is part of the Established 1990 season of programmes transmitting across…
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North East Scotland community radio service Mearns FM has joined the Aberdeen DAB digital radio multiplex. The move will give the station a larger coverage area since it launched full time 11 years ago. Mearns FM started life as Stonehaven…
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Former BBC presenter Chris Donald is joining community station Nova Radio North East. Chris will host the same time slot as he did on BBC Newcastle and BBC Tees on Nova, every Friday night, with his Imaginary Soul Club show. His weekly…
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KeeP 106 has launched a fundraising appeal on its second birthday to support a local first school. The Dorchester community radio station is helping The Prince of Wales First School raise £5,000 to enable its wildlife garden to be…
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Ofcom is giving community radio stations a second chance to apply for emergency funding to help them through the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. In May, the Community Radio Fund Panel, which acts independently from Ofcom, awarded grants to nearly…
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South West London community station Riverside Radio is launching on the Trial London multiplex using DAB+ on August 1st. Riverside Radio has been operating for the past five years as an online community radio station, starting out as…
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The Community Media Association is calling on HM Treasury for a Community Radio Stimulus Package. The push comes ahead of an expected summer statement from the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, on Wednesday 8th July to boost the British economy…
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Community radio station Uckfield FM is celebrating ten years of full-time broadcasting. To welcome the landmark, one of its founder members and former chairman Mike Skinner will present a special programme on the 1st of July. The station…
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Swindon 105.5 presenter Dave Woods will be taking to the streets next month to raise funds for the radio station. The money will be used to help upgrade its third studio so it can be used more for training, meetings and be able to host live…
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A new radio station dedicated to under-represented music genres is set to launch this week in Leeds. Leeds Dance Community Radio, also known as LDC Radio, will broadcast from a space within the basement of the James Graham building at Leeds…
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Volunteers at South West London hospital station Radio St Helier are celebrating 50 years of broadcasting with a day of live shows. The service began entertaining patients and staff in Sutton in 1970, and whilst the official celebration…
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An open microphone during a BBC Radio Ulster news bulletin has resulted in private comments from presenter Nuala McKeever being aired. Whilst Damien Edgar read the news about the latest coronavirus death toll at 3pm on Monday, Nuala can…
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Former BBC local radio presenter in the midlands, Nonny James, has died. Nonny passed away on Friday after contracting coronavirus, although she’d been ill for some time. She was 69. Nonny James presented an evening music show,…
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Over 50 community radio stations have written a letter to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden over the recent offer to provide £400,000 funding. The letter points out that the funding was due to community radio later this year as part of…
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Many community radio stations are uniting to urge the Government to take notice of their plea for financial help. They’ve been writing to their local MPs to ask for support, and so far 25 Members of Parliament have signed a joint…
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Community station Radio Tamworth has hired presenter Rob Charles to host a weekend show. The station says listeners might recognise his voice as Mike – the presenter on Peter Kay’s pretend radio station Forever FM for the TV and…
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Basildon community radio station Gateway 97.8 has launched a special project to support vulnerable residents and hand out free radio sets. The initiative is in partnership with Basildon Round Table and includes distributing radios to…
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Virgin Radio and The Sun are planning to hold free concerts at venues across the UK as a thank you to key workers. Tour dates to take in The SSE Arena, Wembley on Wednesday 28 October, Manchester Arena on Thursday 29 October and The SSE…
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Bradford Asian Radio will be playing more music than before after Ofcom approved changes to its Key Commitments. The station asked to change its description of character of service so that it is no longer a “speech-led” radio…
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This year’s Student Radio Conference has been cancelled due to safety concerns surrounding the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. The event was scheduled to take place from April 15th to 17th in Salford but will now not take place this…
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Cheshire community radio station The Cat has raised over three thousand pounds after organising a ‘Sunday Night at the Lyceum’ fund-raising variety show. The money will be going to Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity for the…
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Jorvik Radio, a community station in York, has been found in breach of the Broadcasting Code for the use of offensive language. Ofcom received a complaint about two uses of the word “f**king” during a conversation between the…
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Three community radio groups in England have been awarded a broadcasting licence, along with one in Scotland. The new stations will serve communities in Melksham in Wiltshire, Thornbury in Gloucestershire, Wimborne Minster in East Dorset…
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BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service, talkSPORT and a number of BBC local radio stations picked up awards at the Sports Journalism Awards in London this week. talkSPORT won the blue ribbon Network of the Year award with Jim White and Natalie…
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The live studio video feed for BBC Radio 5 Live has been removed from the station’s website. Until recently, users could watch what was happening in vision 24/7, with multiple cameras covering the studio, and one in front of each…
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Dance station Atmosphere Radio is expanding its weekend line-up with Northern Ireland-based DJ Neal McClelland joining the line-up. Neal already hosts a Nocturnal show on Cool FM in Northern Ireland, but a custom programme will now also be…
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Capital’s Summertime Ball is moving from its previous home at the Wembley Arena to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2020. The date has also been announced today by Global, as Saturday 6th June. The largest football club stadium in…
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Ofcom has awarded four new community radio licences in England and Northern Ireland. The stations are Border City Radio in Carlisle; Chiltern Voice in Amersham and Chesham, Buckinghamshire; Wallingford Radio in Oxfordshire and Radio…
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Community radio service Caithness FM has launched its own frequency of 106.5 in the Scottish Highlands. Until now, and for the last 24 years, the service has used the 102.5FM frequency from MFR to broadcast local programmes in the evenings.…
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Last year was a record year for DAB with 2.38 million new vehicles fitted with DAB digital radio as standard. The data comes from industry analysts CAP and The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) for Q4 2109. DAB in new car…
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The Hospital Broadcasting Association is building its first digital archive of content from over the last fifty years. The move comes as the organisation commemorates its Golden Jubilee, celebrating 50 years. Since its inception in 1970,…
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