Lincs FM

Radio station


name = Lincs FM
airdate = March 1 1992
frequency = 102.2 MHz, 96.7 MHz, 97.6 MHz
area = Lincolnshire
format = Contemporary
owner = Lincs FM Group
website = [http://www.lincsfm.co.uk www.lincsfm.co.uk]
sister_stations = Compass FM
Trax FM

Oak FM

Dearne FM

Ridings FM

Rother FM

Rutland Radio
webcast = [http://asx.abacast.com/lincsfm-lincsfm-64.asx 64 kbit/s]

Lincs FM is an Independent Local Radio station serving Lincolnshire and Newark, from the Humber to The Wash. It is the current holder of the licence which was advertised by the Radio Authority on 4 March 1991.

Background

The Station has a 2.4% share of the audience within its TSA with people listening for an average of 0.9 hours a week (Rajar June 2006). Lincs FM broadcasts from studios at Witham Park in Lincoln, [http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/gallery/4222541_LCXPH/1/267412693_h6PwK#267412693 next] to the River Witham at the far end of " [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/690311 Waterside South] " where the river is crossed by the Nottingham-Grimsby railway. The building used to be the "Titanic Works" owned by the Clayton and Shuttleworth engineering company. Captain Roy Brown's Sopwith Camel, which shot down Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") on April 21st 1918, was made in this building.

Award nominations

In 2002, [http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?category=Station_Of_the_Year:_300_000_-_1_million&year=2003 2003] , [http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?category=Station_Of_the_Year:_300_000_-_1_million&year=2006 2006] and [http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?category=Station_Of_the_Year:_300,000_-1_million&year=2007 2007] , the station was nominated for a Sony Radio Award for Station of the Year in the 300,000 to 1 m listeners category. [http://www.rbooks.co.uk/author.aspx?id=16678 Jane Hill] (now a novelist and stand-up comedian) was [http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?category=The_Station_Programmer_Of_The_Year&year=2004 nominated] for Station Programmer of the Year in 2004. David Lloyd, who helped launch the station and was [http://www.lbc.co.uk/contactus.asp Managing Director] of LBC and now works at Virgin Radio, is one of the judges.

Transmitters

The main and far-reaching 102.2 FM signal comes from the Belmont transmitting station. It also has lower-powered frequencies in Grantham, south of the town [http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.892296,-0.655586&spn=0.002906,0.006523&t=k&z=17&om=1 near] the bypass, on 96.7FM and [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=scunthorpe&ie=UTF8&ll=53.571091,-0.670139&spn=0.00143,0.003262&t=k&z=18&om=1 Trent View Flats] (near the John Leggott College) in Scunthorpe on 97.6FM. Lincs FM can be clearly heard in northern Nottinghamshire and eastern South Yorkshire. The Belmont transmitter has the Digital One and MXR Yorkshire 12A multiplexes but does not transmit Lincs FM on DAB. The EMAP Humberside 11B multiplex transmits Lincs FM across East Yorkshire, with a transmitter at [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Grimsby&ie=UTF8&ll=53.572827,-0.069619&spn=0.00143,0.003288&t=k&z=18&om=1 Bevan Flats] in north Grimsby. A further DAB transmitter at Trent View Flats was planned as a later possibility when the licence was [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/rau/newsroom/news-release/00/pr183.htm awarded] in December 2000. EMAP was the [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/rau/newsroom/news-release/00/pr127.htm only] bidder for the licence.

DAB Licence

The Lincolnshire DAB licence has been [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/dcr/adverts/lincolnshire advertised] since October 24th 2007, with a likely bidder in place by late 2008. The far south of the county (South Holland, Bourne & Stamford) will not be covered (as it is covered by the Peterborough multiplex), yet all of North and North-East Lincolnshire will be. On January 24 2008, Ofcom received one application for the Lincolnshire DAB licence - from MuxCo Lincolnshire, which is 51% owned by Lincs FM, and was awarded on February 19 2008. It will also carry Compass FM and another new Lincs FM digital-only station called Lincs Country, and use four transmitters at Belmont, High Hunsley (East Yorkshire), Grantham and Lincoln County Hospital. It will be available before July 2009, and possibly as early as April 2009.

Branding

The station uses the "Link-up" jingle package produced by S2blue.The strapline for the station is "hits and memories".

chedule

The Sunday morning half-hour Farming programme presented by [http://www.lincsfm.co.uk/sean.php?id=923 Sally Elkington] at 7am is at the same time as Radio Lincolnshire's similarly titled programme. It often interviews students at Riseholme Agricultural College. [http://www.lincsfm.co.uk/sean.php?id=913 John Marshall] has the Breakfast programme from 6-10am. [http://www.lincsfm.co.uk/sean.php?id=916 Rob Hammond] has the afternoon show from 2-6pm.

Former presenters

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2007/02/08/breakfast_jeremy_buxton_feature.shtml Jeremy Buxton] - went to BBC Radio Humberside, then Radio York (left in [http://www.jeremybuxton.co.uk/audio/finallincs1995.mp3 1995] ).
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2006/04/04/veronica_capaldi_feature.shtml Veronica Capaldi] - Sunday presenter for Radio Lincolnshire (left in April 2001).

External links

* [http://www.lincsfm.co.uk Lincs FM Homepage]
* [http://www.lincsfmgroup.co.uk Lincs FM Group.]
* [http://www.geocities.com/thehotw/aircheck_UKLincs.htm History of local radio stations in Lincolnshire.]
* [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/amfm/AL132-2.htm OFCOM licence]
* [http://www.ciao.co.uk/102_2_Lincs_FM__5114513 Review of the station at Ciao!]
* [http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/music-radio-stations/lincs-fm DooYoo]
* [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/belmont/index.shtml Belmont Transmitter.]
* [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/grantham.php Grantham transmitter.] Neil Franklin Left and went to sister station Compass FM 2005

Audio clips

* [http://radio.cyber-net.com/linkup.mp3 Jingles package]
* [http://www.s2blue.com/whats_video_lincs.cfm Recording the jingles for Lincs FM Group stations at S2 Blue in Leek]
* [http://www.intervalsignals.net/sounds/ukg-lincsfm_100903.mp3 There's more to Cleethorpes than meets the eye in 2003]
* [http://www.jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/lincs_fm_95.mp3 1995 series of jingles]
* [http://www.martika.eclipse.co.uk/lincsfmcockup.mp3 How not to record jingles]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTFHCC1NHK0 YouTube]