- Sunrise Radio
Infobox Radio station
name=Sunrise Radio
airdate=November 5 1989
frequency= kHz - 1458 kHz
Sky: 0133
share= 1.8%
share as of= September 2007
share source= [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php]
area=Central London
format =Asian
owner =Sunrise Radio Group :"Not to be confused with
Sunrise Radio (Yorkshire) orSunrise Radio, Ireland ".Sunrise Radio was theUnited Kingdom 's firstIndependent Local Radio station to cater specifically for the Asian community. Dr Avtar Lit is the chairman, but the station is run by one of his sons, Tony Lit who has also appeared as a newspaper reviewer onSky News and who stood unsuccessfully for the Conservatives in theEaling Southall by-election in July 2007. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/22/ntories222.xml]Transmission
It initially broadcast in
Central London on 1413kHz . Now on 1458 kHz from theBrookmans Park Transmitter north ofLondon .Sunrise also broadcasts to
Coventry ,Wolverhampton ,Edinburgh andGlasgow and is also available Sky Channel and on DAB nationally.It is also available in internet through
Realplayer at mms://193.218.160.20/sunriseBackground
Sunrise describes itself as "the Greatest Asian Radio Station in the World", a slogan that features prominently on the station's
jingle s.History
Sunrise Radio actually started out as a
pirate radio station inLondon , in the 1980s [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1442191,00.html] .Sunrise Radio has now released its television channel Sunrise TV which is available on Sky channel 830.External links
* [http://www.sunriseradio.com/ Sunrise Radio website]
* [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/rau/newsroom/news-release/01/pr073.htm Radio Authority fines Sunrise Radio £10,000 (press release)]
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