NOW Nottingham

Now Nottingham
Licensed area	Nottinghamshire
Frequency	12C (227.36 MHz)
Air date	April 25 2004
Owner	Now Digital (East Midlands)
Website	www.now-digital.com
Coverage Map	from www.now-digital.com
Transmitters	Mapperley Ridge (Nottingham) Waltham Fishponds Hill (Mansfield)

NOW Nottingham is a local commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which serves Nottingham, Mansfield, Newark-on-Trent and the surrounding area. It launched on April 25th 2004 and is operated by NOW Digital on behalf of Now Digital (East Midlands) Ltd.

Stations carried

The following channels are receivable on any digital-equipped DAB radio in the Nottinghamshire area:

Station Name	Bitrate	Audio Channels	Description	Analogue Availability	Launched
BBC Nottingham	128kbit/s	Joint Stereo	Full Service	103.8, 95.5, 95.1FM	April 25 2004
96-106 Capital FM East Midlands	128kbit/s	Joint Stereo	Contemporary Hit music	96.2, 96.5, 102.8, 105.4FM	January 3 2011
Gem 106	128kbit/s	Joint Stereo	80s 90s and current adult contemporary music	106.0FM	December 31 2010
Gold	128kbit/s	Joint stereo	Oldies Music	999MW	August 3 2007
Heart London	128kbit/s	Joint Stereo	Adult Contemporary - London version		January 3 2011
Kiss	128kbit/s	Joint Stereo	Dance and R'n'B		April 22 2011
Pop Up Radio	64kbit/s	Mono	Various events		August 24 2010
Smooth Radio	128kbit/s	Joint Stereo	Easy Listening	106.6FM	March 27 2007
XFM	128kbit/s	Joint Stereo	Alternative Indie/Rock music led station		January 24 2006

Former Services

Services previously carried on the multiplex include

Station Name	Ceased	Description↓	Notes
Traffic Radio	August 31 2011	Rolling Traffic News, Midlands version	Launched June 28 2007 [1]
Trent FM	January 3 2011	Contemporary Hit music	Merged with Ram FM and Leicester Sound and re-branded Capital FM East Midlands
Galaxy (Yorkshire)	December 31 2010	Dance and R'n'B	Normal branding ceased December 19 2010 in advance of the launch of Capital. Replaced by Heart London.
Heart 106	December 31 2010	80s 90s and current adult contemporary music	Re-branded by Gem 106
Chill	March 21 2009	Ambient; Chill-out	Required under Office of Fair Trading ruling
Classic Gold GEM	August 3 2007	Classic Hits	Merged with the Capital Gold network and Re-branded Gold
Capital Disney	June 30 2007	Pop music aimed at children	Replaced by Traffic Radio
Saga 106.6	March 27 2007	Classic Hits and programmes aimed at the over 50s	Re-branded Smooth Radio
Sabras Sound	October 23 2006	Asian	Replaced by Chill
The Storm	January 24 2006	Modern Rock	Replaced by XFM
106 Century FM	September 2 2005	80s 90s and current adult contemporary music	Re-branded Heart 106

Office of Fair Trading concerns

In August 2008, the Office of Fair Trading, reporting back regarding the acquisition of GCap by Global Radio indicated in their report that due to competition concerns and in accordance with the Communications Act 2003, Global Radio will have to remove Gold Nottingham alongside either Galaxy, XFM or Chill from the NOW Nottingham multiplex.^[2] On March 21, 2009 Global Radio partially remedied the OFT's concerns by closing Chill on the multiplex.

See also

• Waltham transmitting station

References

1. ^ http://www.wohnort.org/DAB/archives07.html
2. ^ "Completed acquisition by Global Radio UK Limited of GCap Media plc" (pdf). Office of Fair Trading. 2008-08-27. pp. page 76, section 222. http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/mergers_ea02/2008/Global_GCap.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-28. 

External links

• Fishponds Hill transmitter
• Mapperley Ridge transmitter
• Waltham transmitter