Preston FM
Motto | "The Beat of Lancashire (Transition phase)" |
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Formation | 2005 (2008 Full-time) |
Type | Local Radio |
Headquarters | Cannon Street |
Key people | Preston FM Ltd |
Website | www.preston.fm |
Preston FM was a community radio station radio station broadcasting on 103.2 MHz from its base on Cannon Street, Preston, UK, which commenced full-time broadcasting on 6 October 2008.
The station has broadcast previously on six one-month trials, in October 2005, March 2006, November 2006, May 2007, November 2007, and 2–29 June 2008. The community broadcaster, which was led by station manager Richard Lace, subsequently received a full-time community radio licence from UK regulator Ofcom.[1] The station has been partly backed thanks to EU funding. As of April 2012, the station will go independent due to the closure of the arts charity Prescap.
As at 10th April 2015 Licence Number CR000158BA/3, designated to run until 5th October 2018, was registered to Preston Community Radio 23,[2] a limited company differing in make up, and constitution, to Preston FM Ltd which had run the station from April 2012.
Commencing 4th May 2015, 103.2 Preston FM has rebranded as "CityBeat" with a new logo, schedule and sound.
Current shows
All current shows on the station are mainly presented by various people from Preston and neighbouring towns. A schedule revamp took place in December, 2014, and now is as follows:
Daytime (7am-7pm):
Monday-Friday:
- The Memories (7-9am)
- Hughie Parr's Late Breakfast (9am-12pm)
- DJ Tim's Oldskool Hotmix (12-1pm)
- The John Nicoll Show (1-4pm)
- Drivetime with LJ (4-7pm)
Specialist Shows (Evenings & Weekends):
- Desifusion
- The Andrew and Dave Show
- Sean Galdo's Feel-Good Hour
- The Lair with Nick Axford
- Smooth Groves with Naresh
- Something Completely Different
- Democracy Now
- Folk and Local
- Tim Melia
- Hardtalk with Julie, Dave and Sian
- Soulman
- The Weekend Show with Ben Arnold
- The ABC Of Music with Dave Chambers
- The Sarah O'Rourke Show
- Geek On Radio with Millie Lavelle
- New Music with Simon Howarth
- Shaun Cairns
Projects
Many volunteers and staff will occasionally organise workshops that focus on teaching DJing radio and broadcasting, editing and mixing music along with oral and presenting skills. The workshops have, since the station went full-time in 2008, reached out to schools and colleges.
Preston FM launched a project named 12 weeks of summer, where across a twelve-week period, the radio station went on a tour of six locations in and around the city of Preston, and broadcast from each of the six locations for 2 weeks at a time, starting in Leyland, at the Rococo Coffee lounge and then moving on to Ingol, Ribbleton, Garstang Discovery Centre, Moor Park at the Preston College Park campus and then ending the tour with Preston FM broadcasting live from the City Centre, from inside the St. George's Shopping Centre.
Notes
- ↑ Ofcom licence award announcement
- ↑ "Ofcom". Ofcom. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
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