XS (radio)

XS South Wales

City of license	Neath Port Talbot
Slogan	Neath & Port Talbot's Hit Music Station
Frequency	97.4 MHz (Neath & Neath Valleys) & 107.9 MHz (Port Talbot) RDS PS code: ___XS___
Format	Contemporary Hit Radio
Owner	Neath Port Talbot Broadcasting CIC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	XS South Wales

XS was a community radio station serving the Neath Port Talbot county borough.^[1] The station was owned and operated by Neath Port Talbot Broadcasting CIC and provided a range of dance and alternative music together with information services, primarily for 11- to 25-year-olds, from studios in the Water Street Business Centre in Port Talbot.^[2]

History

Afan FM was established in 2003 and went on to run five Restricted Service Licence (RSL) trial broadcasts before becoming the UK's first new Community Radio station (following the initial tranche of 16 "Access Radio" trial stations) by the award of Licence CR005 by the UK Broadcast Regulator Ofcom in April 2005. Afan FM began test transmissions on 107.9MHz on 17 April 2007 and was officially launched at 2pm on 20 April 2007.

The station completed its second coverage phase when it launched its transmitter on 97.4 MHz for the Neath and Neath Valleys area on Thursday 23 October 2008. There were plans for extending coverage to the remainder of the Neath Port Talbot area via a series of relay transmitters. The station also streamed online via its website with a 192kbit/s .mp3 feed. Afan FM was rebranded as XS Wales on 7 January 2011 in order to reposition itself as Neath & Port Talbot's Hit Music Station, complete with a new logo, audio imaging, website, and a launched schedule.

The station ended live programming on Tuesday 13 December 2011 and ceased broadcasting a day later.

References

↑ Broadcast Radio MCAs maps
↑ "CR005 - UK Radio Licensees - community". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2008-04-07. Retrieved 2010-12-05.

External links

Official website

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 Nation Hits 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°35′24″N 3°48′38″W / 51.5901°N 3.8106°W / 51.5901; -3.8106

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