- Tower FM
Radio station
name=Tower FM
airdate=March 20 1999
frequency=107.4 MHz
share= 9.5%
share as of= September 2007
share source= [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php]
area=Bolton &Bury
format =Contemporary|owner =UTV Radio Tower FM is an
Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts across the towns ofBolton andBury and parts of North Manchester in the UK from an old mill in Bolton.The radio station was given the name "Tower" as a local link to both towns in the station's coverage area; Turton Tower, Bolton and Peel Tower on Holcombe Hill at Ramsbottom,Bury.
Originally an RSL (restricted service licence) radio station, the team behind the project won the full time licence and the station began broadcasting on March 20th 1999.
As an RSL, Tower FM broadcast from Bury via a link to the transmitter on Peel Tower. The radio station only broadcast from Bolton once the main base was established on Gaskell Street, Bolton.
Since that time the station has changed ownership twice and is now owned by UTV Radio.
Relocation
In early 2007, the station's owners approached UK media regulator OFCOM to ask permission to move the station's base from Bolton to the Haydock or Newton Le Willows area of Merseyside as part of a plan to house it in a single building with two other stations from the UTV Radio group: Wish FM (Wigan) and Wire FM (Warrington).
External links
* [http://www.towerfm.co.uk/ Tower FM]
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