Kerrang! 105.2

Radio station


name = Kerrang! Radio
airdate = June 10 2004
frequency = 105.2 MHz and Digital UK
share = 3.4%
share as of = March 2008
share source = [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php]
area = West Midlands and UK
format = Rock
owner = Bauer Radio

Kerrang! Radio is a specialist rock music radio station broadcasting to the West Midlands in England. The station's format mixes modern & classic rock with speech programmes targeted at young people. A similar (automated) service was broadcast on digital radio via Sky Digital (along with Kerrang! TV), on DAB and on Freeview, but this broadcast has now become virtually identical to Kerrang! Radio. It is connected with the Kerrang! print magazine in name, ownership and style, although the radio station has a more mainstream output than the magazine, featuring more indie and alternative rock.

The station is based in Lionel Street in the city of Birmingham opposite the BT Tower, and it broadcasts from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, covering a wide area including Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire and at times can be heard in Kingswood, Bristol.

The station has come under scrutiny from radio regulator Ofcom a number of times due to the controversial presenter Tim Shaw, who presented the late night show before moving to the breakfast show.

Current Presenters

*Kate Lawler and Lucy - Drivetime,
*Stuart Cable - The Rock and Roll years and 'Cable and Caroline'
*Emma Scott - Afternoons,
*Loz Guest and Christian Stevenson - Evenings,
*Nick Margerrison, Alex and Amy - The Night Before
*Dan Morfitt - Early Breakfast and Lazy Sundays
*Hywel & Jamie - Sunday Afternoon
*Simon James and Hill - The Morning After
*Ian Camfield - The Kerrang Show

External links

* [http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk Kerrang! Radio]
* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/story/0,12636,1414580,00.html Media Guardian article on Shaw's "sacking"]
* [http://www.timshaw.co.uk Tim Shaw's personal website]
* [http://www.geocities.com/thehotw/aircheck_UKWarks.htm History of local radio in the Birmingham area.]
* [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/suttoncoldfield/index.asp Sutton Coldfield transmitter]