Chorley FM was a radio station based in Chorley, Lancashire, England. The station was created by volunteers back in 2001 to broadcast a special two week licence in conjunction with the Midsummer Festival which was located on Botany Bay near the M61.
Cam FM is a student-run radio station at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. The station broadcasts on an FM frequency of 97.2 MHz and online. It currently broadcasts from Fitzwilliam College and Anglia Ruskin University after spending its first 32 years located in Churchill College. Cam FM once held the world record for the longest team broadcast marathon, at 76 hours.
South London Radio was a South London-based radio station, previously known as FLR 107.3, Fusion 107.3 and Time 107.3, which ceased broadcasting in April 2009.
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.
L107 was a Scottish independent local radio station, serving Lanarkshire. The station broadcast on 107.5 and 107.9 FM from studios and offices in Hamilton.
Revival FM was a British Christian-based community radio station in Scotland, operating under a Community Radio Licence.
Original 106fm was formerly a radio station broadcasting to the Solent region of southern England, centred on the towns and cities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth, from its transmitters at Chillerton Down, Mannings Heath (Poole) and Crabwood Farm (Winchester). It was awarded its broadcast licence in September 2005 and launched on 1 October 2006 and ceased broadcasting on 30 September 2008.
Goldbeat was an AM radio station broadcasting on 828 kHz in Cookstown, Northern Ireland. It was launched in 1995 as Townland Radio, but was purchased in 1997 by media tycoon Owen Oyston who had already bought and relaunched Belfast Community Radio in 1996. The Oyston group relaunched Townland Radio as Goldbeat 828, but the station folded in 1999 along with sister station Heartbeat 1521 AM in Craigavon. Both AM licences were handed back to the then UK regulator The Radio Authority. At the time only one other radio licence in the UK had ever been handed back to the regulator.
Beat 103 is a community radio station based in Preston, Lancashire, broadcasting pop and dance music. It was initially established in 2008 as Preston FM before relaunching in 2015.
Takeover Radio is a community radio station broadcasting on FM to Leicester and online. It also has a sister station, that broadcasts to the Ashfield district in Nottinghamshire. Takeover Radio specialises in helping children gain experience and direct participative involvement in radio broadcasting.
101.8 WCR FM is a radio station that broadcasts to the city of Wolverhampton, England, on the VHF frequency of 101.8 under an Ofcom - Community Radio licence, at 6:00 a.m. on 30 March 2007 originally from studios in the Newhampton Arts Centre. WCR FM aims to be a vibrant, informative and hyperlocal station providing the city with an alternative service with a mix of speech, specialist and niche programming. The station's licence states it must broadcast a speech content of no less than 30% of its total output and this is achieved primarily by a weekday lunchtime magazine show and a heavier, local news/current affairs series with the station's Community Director, Chris Allen. Other programmes offer additional speech content to cover the requirement.
Phonic FM is a community radio station in Exeter, Devon, England. The station was set up in 2008 and started broadcasting on 15 February 2008. Phonic FM was originally called Vibraphonic FM and broadcast as part of a one-month Music Festival in the City of Exeter called The Vibraphonic Music Festival.
Rathergood Radio, formerly known as Star Radio, was an independent local radio station. It formerly broadcast in Darlington, County Durham, North Yorkshire and surrounding areas on FM. The County Durham licences were owned and operated by UKRD Group until 31 March 2017, when it was purchased and later rebranded by View TV Group.
Branch FM is a community radio station based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, which has operated since May 2007. It broadcasts on the 101.8 FM frequency, in the West Yorkshire, area on an OFCOM licence until 2017. It was one of the first Christian radio stations to be given a broadcast licence in the UK.
RWSfm 103.3 is the community radio station for Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and the surrounding areas offering music and local information. The station was awarded a community radio licence by Ofcom in 2010 and began broadcasting on 13 August 2010. Community Radio stations in the UK are required to provide a social gain to the community they serve. RWSfm 103.3 is one of a growing number of such community stations in the UK and currently broadcasts around 70 hours of live programming each week, including Bury's Big Breakfast with Julie MacLeod from 7am, Bury's Big Drive Home With Ryan McClean from 4pm. During the day the station plays a mixture of popular music with local news, sport, interviews, information, traffic and travel and weather. During the evenings and at weekends there is a selection of specialist music shows including a rock, world music and country.
Môn FM is a bilingual community radio station serving Anglesey and Gwynedd. The station broadcasts on 96.8, 102.1 and 102.5 FM and online from studios in Llangefni town centre.
Point FM was a community radio station serving northern Denbighshire and eastern parts of Conwy County Borough in North Wales. Owned and operated by Radio Elwy Ltd, the station broadcast locally on 103.1 FM and online.
This is a timeline of the development of radio in Northern Ireland.
Iman FM (103.1 MHz) was a British community radio station based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Broadcast from a transmitter site at Wincobank, to the east of the city of Sheffield, its programming was primarily religious in nature and focused on the Muslim community. It was the first community radio station in the United Kingdom to have its broadcasting licence revoked after broadcasting a number of lectures by radical cleric and al-Qaeda extremist Anwar al-Awlaki.
