106.3 Bridge FM

Bridge FM
City	Bridgend
Broadcast area	Bridgend County Vale of Glamorgan
Frequency	106.3 MHz, 106.3 Bridge FM Live online Streaming] RDS: BridgeFM
First air date	May 2000
Format	CHR
Owner	Nation Broadcasting
Website	bridgefm.wales

Bridge FM is a Independent Local Radio station serving Bridgend County Borough and surrounding areas. It is owned and operated by Nation Broadcasting and broadcasts on 106.3 FM from studios near the St Hilary transmitter in the neighbouring Vale of Glamorgan.

The station plays chart music from the 1980s to the present day, alongside local news, travel and community information.

Overview

Bridge FM was formerly owned by Tindle Radio Group but sold to Town and Country Broadcasting (now Nation Broadcasting) in 2006, becoming the company's fifth local radio station.

The very first Bridge FM logo used between 2000 and 2003
The second Bridge FM logo used between 2003 and 2006
The third Bridge FM logo used between 2006 and 2015

Programming

The majority of Bridge FM's output is produced and broadcast from Nation Broadcasting's St Hilary studios. All programming and presenters - including music - is shared with sister station Swansea Bay Radio.^[1] Split transmission is used to allow the two stations to broadcast local content relevant to their area.

Presenter-led shows air from 6am - 10pm on weekdays, 8am - 6pm on Saturdays and 8am - 7pm on Sundays. The station's main presenters are Lee Jukes (weekday breakfast, Saturday mornings), Mark Powell (weekday drivetime) and Mike Jordan (weekday evenings). Bridge FM also airs a rugby magazine show, Rugby Nation (presented by Sean Holley) on Wednesday evenings, networked with other Nation-owned stations.

The Vodafone Big Top 40 is produced by Global Radio at its Capital studios in London for broadcast on 145 commercial radio stations in the UK every Sunday afternoon.

News

Local news bulletins air hourly from 6am - 6pm on weekdays and 8am - 12pm at weekends with headlines on the half-hour during the weekday breakfast and drivetime shows. Bridge FM also airs bespoke News from Wales bulletins during daytime hours (produced by Nation Broadcasting's newsroom) and Sky News Radio bulletins from London overnight.^[2]

The station's journalists are Mike Hughes, Brogan Hubber and Natalie Beer.^[3]

References

External links

Nation Broadcasting

Radio	106.3 Bridge FM Nation Radio 97.1 Radio Carmarthenshire 102.5 Radio Pembrokeshire Radio Ceredigion 97.5 Scarlet FM Swansea Bay Radio

Radio in Wales

BBC Cymru Wales national stations	BBC Radio Cymru BBC Radio Wales

Regional commercial stations	Gold Heart North Wales Heart Wales Kiss 101 Nation Radio

Local commercial stations	96.4 The Wave 102.5 Radio Pembrokeshire 106.3 Bridge FM 97.5 Scarlet FM Capital Cymru Capital North West and Wales Capital South Wales Swansea Bay Radio Radio Carmarthenshire Radio Ceredigion Smooth Wales Sunshine Radio Swansea Sound

Community, charity & non-profit stations	BRfm Bro Radio Calon FM GTFM Môn FM Point FM Radio Cardiff Radio City 1386AM Radio Tircoed Tudno FM

Student stations	Bay Radio (Aberystwyth) Radio Noize Storm FM Tequila Radio Xpress Radio Xtreme Radio

Defunct local stations	Radio Hafren Heart Cheshire and North East Wales Heart North Wales Coast Radio Maldwyn Valleys Radio XS

Welsh DAB multiplexes	Cardiff and Newport Mid and West Wales North Wales Severn Estuary Swansea SW Wales

UK national BBC services	BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 5 Live

UK national commercial services	Absolute Radio Classic FM Talksport

UK national DAB multiplexes	BBC National DAB Digital One

Coordinates: 51°30′17″N 3°34′13″W / 51.504665°N 3.570254°W / 51.504665; -3.570254

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