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Moorlands Radio 
Broadcast area Staffordshire Moorlands Frequency 103.7 MHz First air date 7 November 2009 Format Community radio Audience share unknown Owner Moorlands Radio Ltd Moorlands Radio is a community radio station based in Leek in the Staffordshire Moorlands, England. It was granted the full time licence in the second round of community radio licensing by broadcast regulator Ofcom in February 2008.[1] The station is now on air serving the rural Staffordshire Moorlands and covering the main towns of Leek and Biddulph.[2]
It is funded through a combination of grant funding from local authorities and charities; and revenue from the sale of advertising to local businesses.
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History
The Moorlands Radio project was founded by a group of local enthusiasts in 2003, led by established presenter Tony Mullins. From 2003 to 2007, the station undertook three Restricted Service Licence broadcasts of 28 days each in duration.[3]
The full-time station came on air on 7 November 2009 and has a five-year community radio licence. In early 2010, Verity Hilton was appointed Station Manager.
Programming
Moorlands Radio broadcasts a full daytime and evening schedule of programmes 7 days a week. Daytime programming is generally aimed at a mainstream audience and features popular music from the 1960s to today with local news, interviews with local personalities and interactive features.[4]
Evening programmes are specialist in nature, and include shows focusing on Northern Soul, classical music, dance music and folk music. Presenters of these shows, along with most of the staff of the station, are volunteers.[5]
Notable presenters
From the station's launch in 2009 until a few months before his death from cancer in early 2011, a daily programme was presented by local radio stalwart Sam Plank.[6]
The breakfast programme is presented by Doug Wood, a local personality with over thirty years of radio experience on Signal Radio among other stations.[7]
Notes
- ^ Ofcom: Four community radio licence awards, February 2008: http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/current-licensees/awards/feb08/
- ^ Ofcom community radio licence CR-161: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/Community/cr161.htm
- ^ Moorlands Radio: The story so far. http://www.moorlandsradio.co.uk/about/the-story-so-far/
- ^ Moorlands Radio: Programmes. http://www.moorlandsradio.co.uk/programmes/
- ^ Moorlands Radio: Volunteering. http://www.moorlandsradio.co.uk/volunteering/
- ^ Radio Today: Tributes to Stoke's Sam Plank. http://radiotoday.co.uk/2011/02/tributes-to-stokes-sam-plank/
- ^ Radio Today: Moor breakfast for Doug Wood. http://radiotoday.co.uk/2010/08/moor-breakfast-for-doug-wood/
External links
Categories:- Radio stations in Staffordshire
- Staffordshire Moorlands
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