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8th Apr 2024, 8:27 am | #1 |
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FM Station Closures
WE already have a couple of threads recording AM radio closures but I could not find one for FM stations.
Please close if not appropriate. Wave 105.2 stopped transmitting on the 28th March after 25 years https://sussex.news/sussex/wave-good...-sunset/22302/ This covered the South coast. Peter |
8th Apr 2024, 10:54 am | #2 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
Looks like it has been borged by one of the three big UK-wide radio companies. Will probably continue as part of the Greatest Hits Radio, Bauer or suchlike 'symbol-groups', the equivalent of Londis, Spar etc in the convenience-store business.
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8th Apr 2024, 11:03 am | #3 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
So it's not a transmitter closure then?
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8th Apr 2024, 11:20 am | #4 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
It may have gone off air for a transitional period. Bauer bought lots of secondary local stations a couple of years ago and has been adding them to the Greatest Hits Radio pseudo-national network. Oxford's two Jack FM stations went to GHR last year.
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8th Apr 2024, 1:16 pm | #5 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
Wave 105 has become Greatest Hits Radio on the South Coast. Some of the old presenters are still staying on - Rick Jackson is still doing the breakfast show, for example.
Bit of a shame as Wave 105 was pretty good, as local stations go. I still miss Jack FM down here, though! |
8th Apr 2024, 1:54 pm | #6 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
Hello,
This thread kind a' bookends my recent thread regards VHF/FM being used in the early days of North European offshore pirate radio Terry |
8th Apr 2024, 3:38 pm | #7 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
That's what happened the Eagle in the Surrey/Guildford area. It was re-branded and became GHR in September 2020.
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9th Apr 2024, 7:57 am | #8 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
I hadn't realised that Wave would continue transmitting as GHR, it wasn't clear from the article I found, a loss of local diversity then rather than a transmitter closure.
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9th Apr 2024, 11:11 am | #9 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
Yes, Ofcom have allowed local commercial radio to largely die out over the last 20 years. The operaters are still required to produce some vaguely regionalised programming (hence GHR South Coast not GHR) but it's really just a token gesture. These are national branded networks in all but name.
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9th Apr 2024, 11:31 am | #10 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
Our local Lincs FM is now DAB only, the FM transmitters are for Greatest Hits Radio like others have gone.
Just an edit to say Capitol seem to be worst here for buying up the smaller stations. You can tune across the FM band and all you hear is the same station. A bit sad because we loose variety of what to listen to. Last edited by Spec-chum; 9th Apr 2024 at 11:37 am. |
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Re: FM Station Closures
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"Coming to you locally wherever you are in the nation; this is Britain's first national, local radio station" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_...(radio_series) |
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9th Apr 2024, 1:20 pm | #12 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
That URL just points to a wikipedia announcement that wikipedia does not have such a page Very appropriate to the sense of humour of that series. I fully enjoyed it.
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9th Apr 2024, 1:58 pm | #13 |
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Re: FM Station Closures
It's because the forum software doesn't parse URLs with closing brackets correctly. I've fixed it.
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9th Apr 2024, 6:33 pm | #14 | |
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Re: FM Station Closures
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It is currently DAB only, no local FM stations lost as of now. I bet they have their eyes on Nation Broadcasting though. |
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