Independent stations

[Deleted User] · 29/12/14 - 18:48

Are there any in left or are they all now part of a bigger group??

jackpotjackpot · 29/12/14 - 18:53

AKhanna1 wrote: »

Are there any in left or are they all now part of a bigger group??

Ever heard of Google or doing your own research possibly?

[Deleted User] · 29/12/14 - 18:58

jackpotjackpot wrote: »

Ever heard of Google or doing your own research possibly?

I have had a look thanks and don't seem to be able to find any, seeming as this is a discussion forum about radio, I assumed someone on here may know if there are any left.

Thanks for the helpful advice.

Orangy · 29/12/14 - 18:58

Or contributing to another thread already discussing this, which others have been commenting on as recently as 5 mins before this thread was started!?

hmeister · 29/12/14 - 18:58

All been taken over and destroyed by Global and Bauer.

jackpotjackpot · 29/12/14 - 19:46

I have a strong feeling your a reporter, Hanna.No doubt your in the process of writing an article about radio and you want 'us' to help you write it?

jon craig · 29/12/14 - 22:18

jackpotjackpot wrote: »

I have a strong feeling your a reporter, Hanna.No doubt your in the process of writing an article about radio and you want 'us' to help you write it?

Of course, journalists regularly use posts from the DS discussion forums as reference points when writing their articles. After all, everything your read on here comes from well-informed, reliable sources. What could possibly go wrong? ;-)

All been taken over and destroyed by Global and Bauer.

And there's an example of why no journalist worth their salt would come anywhere near here when looking for material. Clearly hmeister has never heard of UTV, Orion, UKRD, Celador, Media Sound, Anglian Radio, Lincs Group, Town & Country, Quidem etc..........Either that or just wanted to get away another cheap shot!

hmeister · 29/12/14 - 23:00

jon craig wrote: »

Of course, journalists regularly use posts from the DS discussion forums as reference points when writing their articles. After all, everything your read on here comes from well-informed, reliable sources. What could possibly go wrong? ;-)

And there's an example of why no journalist worth their salt would come anywhere near here when looking for material. Clearly hmeister has never heard of UTV, Orion, UKRD, Celador, Media Sound, Anglian Radio, Lincs Group, Town & Country, Quidem etc..........Either that or just wanted to get away another cheap shot!

I have actually heard of some of them, UTV are the ones who are ruining Juice FM by adding loads of networked crap. It's basically becoming another Radio City:(

jackpotjackpot · 29/12/14 - 23:03

hmeister wrote: »

I have actually heard of some of them, UTV are the ones who are ruining Juice FM by adding loads of networked crap. It's basically becoming another Radio City:(

All the radio stations in this country are ruined. The future is internet radio stations.

jon craig · 29/12/14 - 23:05

hmeister wrote: »

I have actually heard of some of them, UTV are the ones who are ruining Juice FM by adding loads of networked crap. It's basically becoming another Radio City:(

And what about the other 8 companies I listed?

paulx23 · 29/12/14 - 23:14

hmeister wrote: »

I have actually heard of some of them, UTV are the ones who are ruining Juice FM by adding loads of networked crap. It's basically becoming another Radio City:(

Loads of networked 'crap'? Its 3 hours a day.

hmeister · 29/12/14 - 23:16

paulx23 wrote: »

Loads of networked 'crap'? Its 3 hours a day.

That's 3 hours too long and it's obvious that even more will quickly infest Juice.

Juice FM is as dead as Radio City now and Liverpool doesn't have any proper local stations.

omnidirectional · 29/12/14 - 23:17

hmeister wrote: »

I have actually heard of some of them, UTV are the ones who are ruining Juice FM by adding loads of networked crap. It's basically becoming another Radio City:(

It's just a 3 hour evening show Monday-Thursday, and the Big Top 40 on Sunday. I'd rather they didn't take these shows, not because they're networked but they don't exactly fit the Juice format/music policy.

UTV have nothing else suitable to network on Juice so I can't see any more networked shows being added.

radio tuner · 30/12/14 - 09:13

AKhanna1 wrote: »

Are there any in left or are they all now part of a bigger group??

in greater manchester there are 2 independant stations imagine fm and revolution96.2

david16 · 30/12/14 - 09:50

Long may they continue to keep a proper ilr presence on the radio.

ney · 30/12/14 - 10:07

Im my area Kingdom FM is still Independent and I can also pick up Central FM that is also still Independent I beleve.

Darren

Inkblot · 30/12/14 - 10:33

Jazz FM is an independent station with over half a million listeners.

vinnielo · 30/12/14 - 10:49

Whilst there may be some mostly-automated independent radio out there, some are still providing a decent local service to their broadcast areas.
Kingdom FM, Time 107.5, Radio Jackie, Wave 105 and MKFM are all very enjoyable listens with locally-relevant content that doesn't seem like it's being done out of "speech requirements" quotas, i.e. unnaturally forced.

hyperstarsponge · 30/12/14 - 11:05

There is some independent ones in the north too.

mfr · 30/12/14 - 12:01

Original 106 in NE Scotland is independent.

vinnielo · 30/12/14 - 12:17

mfr wrote: »

Original 106 in NE Scotland is independent.

Which reminds me. Wave 102 is a good local listen as well where presenters can talk to listeners and not at them. Just a shame about their low-quality webstream.

Radiogram · 30/12/14 - 12:34

mfr wrote: »

Original 106 in NE Scotland is independent.

vinnielo wrote: »

Which reminds me. Wave 102 is a good local listen as well where presenters can talk to listeners and not at them. Just a shame about their low-quality webstream.

God forbid this ever happens but you have to wonder why Global don't buy these 2 stations to have coverage of one of their brands on FM in the other 2 main Scottish cities.

As I say, please don't let it happen.

radio tuner · 30/12/14 - 13:06

vinnielo wrote: »

Whilst there may be some mostly-automated independent radio out there, some are still providing a decent local service to their broadcast areas.
Kingdom FM, Time 107.5, Radio Jackie, Wave 105 and MKFM are all very enjoyable listens with locally-relevant content that doesn't seem like it's being done out of "speech requirements" quotas, i.e. unnaturally forced.

wave 105 is owned by bauer..mkfm is a community radio station

Mr Wi-Fi · 30/12/14 - 14:21

Team Rock
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hmeister · 30/12/14 - 16:18

jackpotjackpot wrote: »

All the radio stations in this country are ruined. The future is internet radio stations.

I can't think of any radio stations worth listening to other than Gaydio, Team Rock and a pirate I found when I was in Birmingham a few months ago.

I usually stick to Digitally Imported or some of the many foreign stations on TuneIn that don't play the same 6 songs over and over and choose to talk about 1D instead of the news.

CiderMonster · 30/12/14 - 16:40

hmeister wrote: »

I usually stick to Digitally Imported or some of the many foreign stations on TuneIn that don't play the same 6 songs over and over and choose to talk about 1D instead of the news.

Ditto, both of those platforms are a real little boon

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