96 Trent FM

Infobox Radio station


name=Trent FM
airdate= July 3 1975
frequency=96.2 MHz (Nottingham),
96.5 MHz (Mansfield),
DAB
share = 10.6%
share as of = Jul 08
share source = [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php]

area= Nottingham, Mansfield
and Loughborough
format =Contemporary
owner = GCap Media plc
website = [http://www.trentfm.co.uk/ www.trentfm.co.uk]

Trent FM is an Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts from Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Its frequencies are 96.2 (Nottingham) and 96.5 (Mansfield) megahertz in the FM band - and the station is also available on DAB.

Launched July 3 1975 as Radio Trent, initially broadcasting on FM and medium wave, the station began transmissions to neighbouring Derbyshire in 1987. Renamed Trent FM in 1988, it launched a separate oldies-format service, GEM-AM, on its medium wave frequencies.

Taken over by the GWR Group in 1993, the Nottingham and Mansfield FM services were branded 96 Trent FM, while the Derby service became known as RAM FM. The medium wave GEM-AM service was then sold off, to become Classic Gold GEM. By spring 2005, Trent found itself owned by GCap Media, after GWR Group's merger with Capital Radio Group. It became part of GCap's One Network brand, a network of FM and DAB music stations across southern England, the English Midlands and Wales. The station will change hands again in 2008 when Global Radio's buy out of GCap Media completes.

After thirty-one years based at a converted hospital building in the historic street leading to Nottingham Castle, the station began broadcasting from new studios at the Chapel Quarter development at Chapel Bar, at midday on January 9 2007.

Trent lost the "96" prefix in its name in July 2007, to become once again Trent FM.

Current Presenters

* Emma Caldwell
* James Cook
* Rachel Craggs
* Ivan D'Sa
* Mark Del
* Mark Dennison
* Tim Disney
* Neil Grayson
* Mark Hitchings
* Julian Jones (aka 'J')
* Steffan La touche
* Joe Rudd
* Joanna Russell (soon leaving for Absolute Radio)
* Andy Twigge
* Justin Walker
* Jon Wyer

Trent FM News

Trent has local bulletins from 6am until 7pm, including a mixture of locally produced and researched stories, and national content syndicated from London. At 5pm there is a seven minute news programme, 'Trent FM Tonight'.

GCap Ideas Studio at Trent FM

The Trent FM building also houses the majority of the production studios for GCap Ideas, the commercial arm of GCap Media. GCap Ideas Studio produces the commercial output of GCap's regional radio stations, through 8 dedicated studios. Trent FM's Castle Gate building housed 6 of these studios, and the facility remained with the station when it moved to its new home at Chapel Quarter, Nottingham in January 2007.

logans

Some of the more well-known slogans used on air were/are:

* Sounds Like You Wanna Hear
* Magic Trent
* Your 24 Hour Friend
* Today's best mix, today's best variety
* More music, less talk
* Playing the best mix of the 80's, 90's and today.
* Today's best mix.
* Your hit music station

External links

* [http://mediasrv-the.musicradio.com/96TrentFM Listen to Trent]
* [http://www.trentfm.co.uk Trent FM's website]
* [http://www.cubwolf.co.uk/trent.htm Trent FM jingles.]
* [http://www.geocities.com/thehotw/aircheck_museum945home.htm Trent in Derby]
* [http://homepages.tesco.net/~condor/rtjingles.htm More Trent History]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXekK8DUmcg The 1st ½ of a documentary of Radio Trent from 1979 (year incorrectly given as 1977)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CianpZiMQGA The 2nd ½ of the 1979 Radio Trent Documentary]