- Goldbeat
Goldbeat was a mediumwave radio station broadcasting on 828 KHz in
Cookstown ,Northern Ireland . It was launched in 1995 as Townland Radio, but was purchased in 1997 by media tycoonOwen Oyston who had already bought and relaunchedBelfast Community Radio in 1996 (now Belfast CityBeat). The Oyston group relaunched Townland Radio as Goldbeat 828, but the station folded in 1999 along with sister station Heartbeat 1521 AM (formally Radio 1521) in Craigavon. Both AM licences where handed back to the then UK regulater The Radio Authority (nowOfcom ). At the time only one other radio licence in the UK had ever been handed back to the regulator.After years of campaigning by locals for the re-advertising of a radio licence for Mid-Ulster,
Ofcom awarded an FM licence for the area toBelfast CityBeat (now owned by CN group) in 2002. Belfast CityBeat launchedMid FM from the same premises previously occupied by Townland Radio/Goldbeat at Park Avenue,Cookstown inCounty Tyrone . In 2006Belfast Citybeat sold their majority stake in Mid FM to Northern Media, owners of 7FM inBallymena .Mid FM was rebranded to 6FM in 2006.
Sources
* [http://www.transdiffusion.org/rmc/commercial/ulster.asp Radio Transdiffusion]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/38999.stm BBC News]Related
* [http://www.citybeat967.co.uk Belfast CityBeat]
* [http://www.sixfm.co.uk 6FM]
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