| Broadcast area | Sussex |
|---|---|
| First air date | 5 September 2000 |
| Format | Dance |
| Owner | Passion Digital Radio Ltd |
| Website | www |
Passion Radio is an Independent Local Radio station that broadcasts from studios in Worthing across Sussex on DAB Digital Radio and around the world on the internet.
Independent Local Radio is the collective name given to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom. As a result of the buyouts and mergers permitted by the Broadcasting Act of 1990, and deregulation resulting from the Communications Act 2003, most commercial stations are now neither independent nor local. The same name is used for Independent Local Radio in Ireland.
Worthing is a large seaside town in England, and district with borough status in West Sussex. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, 10 miles (16 km) west of Brighton, and 18 miles (29 km) east of the county town of Chichester. With an estimated population of 104,600 and an area of 12.5 square miles (32.37 km2) the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation, which makes it part of the 15th most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Since 2010 northern parts of the borough, including the Worthing Downland Estate, have formed part of the South Downs National Park. In April 2019, the Art Deco Worthing Pier was dubbed the best in Britain.
Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe, is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and divided for many purposes into the ceremonial counties of West Sussex and East Sussex. Brighton and Hove, though part of East Sussex, was made a unitary authority in 1997, and as such, is administered independently of the rest of East Sussex. Brighton and Hove was granted City status in 2000. Until then, Chichester was Sussex's only city.
Passion Radio's origins can be traced back to 1995 when New Wave Broadcasting, a company the station's founders were involved with, submitted an application to the Radio Authority to run an FM service for Brighton. The licence application wasn't successful, but the brand reappeared in September 2000 as an internet-only station.
Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England that is part of the City of Brighton and Hove, located 47 miles (76 km) south of London.
Today, Passion Radio plays dance music from four decades mixed with local news, features and information. Presenters include former Big Brother 6 housemate Eugene Sully, Ryan Morrison on drivetime, Brighton's Honey Club resident Adam H, Trance DJ Matt Darey, Graham Gold and former Atlantic 252 presenters Simon Hardwick (who is the managing director of the company) and Dave James.
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music. While there exist attestations of the combination of dance and music in ancient times, the earliest Western dance music that we can still reproduce with a degree of certainty are the surviving medieval dances. In the Baroque period, the major dance styles were noble court dances. In the classical music era, the minuet was frequently used as a third movement, although in this context it would not accompany any dancing. The waltz also arose later in the classical era. Both remained part of the romantic music period, which also saw the rise of various other nationalistic dance forms like the barcarolle, mazurka, ecossaise, ballade and polonaise.
Matthew Jonathan "Matt" Darey is an English trance music producer and a member of Lost Tribe. He is known for his work in the Euphoria trance series and for 'Gamemaster' and his remixes of Agnelli & Nelson's "El Niño". In 2005, his first major US albums, an EP, Point Zero, and a double album, Upfront Trance, were released. Darey has sold over two million albums and singles with numerous top 10 and top 20 chart hits.
Graham Gold is a British DJ. Gold is primarily known as a DJ whose sets were broadcast live Friday nights on Kiss and distributed on the Universal Music TV label. These weekly live broadcasts were considered revolutionary in the industry. Gold's popular weekly show played a major role in Kiss FM growing into a radio powerhouse. Gold was ranked No. 83 by Dash Berlin in Dash's "Most Popular DJs in the World of All Time."
Passion Radio became one of the first commercial radio stations in the UK to take part in a trial of Digital Radio Mondiale and could be heard in parts of Sussex on 1386 kHz DRM.
Digital Radio Mondiale is a set of digital audio broadcasting technologies designed to work over the bands currently used for analogue radio broadcasting including AM broadcasting, particularly shortwave, and FM broadcasting. DRM is more spectrally efficient than AM and FM, allowing more stations, at higher quality, into a given amount of bandwidth, using various MPEG-4 audio coding formats.
The station was granted a temporary 28-day FM Restricted Service Licence by Ofcom and broadcast from 1 May 2006 on 87.7 FM in Brighton and Hove. On 24 May 2006 Passion Radio switched on its DAB transmission, broadcasting on the Now Sussex Multiplex to a potential audience of 715,000 digital listeners. However by August 2007 the DAB transmission has stopped, no notice or details have been given for this, but the station has been removed from now sussex multiplex line up website. [1]
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting is capable of better sound quality than AM broadcasting, the chief competing radio broadcasting technology, so it is used for most music broadcasts. Theoretically wideband AM can offer equally good sound quality, provided the reception conditions are ideal. FM radio stations use the VHF frequencies. The term "FM band" describes the frequency band in a given country which is dedicated to FM broadcasting.
A UK Restricted Service Licence, is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event. Licences are granted by the broadcasting authority Ofcom.
The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.
The station is based in the Guildbourne Centre in Worthing, sharing premises with 107.7 Splash FM.
Most of Passion’s shows are ‘voice-tracked’, in keeping with other digital stations, although the station does broadcast regular live shows and outside broadcasts.
