Glasgow’s Insight Radio broadcasts on 101FM, from an Anniesland based transmitter, and is available throughout the UK and Europe via satellite.
The station is now reported to be in talks with DAB multiplex operators with a view to securing space on that terrestrial digital platform. This could be a national DAB network or a series of local DAB networks.
It has also been reported that the station will launch on Freesat next month.
Just 10 months after launching, community radio station Radio Cardiff has cease broadcasting.
Radio Cardiff began broadcasting on October 8th 2007, providing local news and information with music featuring reggae, soul, jazz, funk and house music.
The station reportedly blames the closure on a delay in funding from the Welsh Assembly Government and Cardiff County Council.
London community radio station TGR Sound, broadcasting to the Bexley, Dartford, Thamesmead and Woolwich areas, will cease broadcasting at 1pm on Sunday 22 June.
A statement published on the TGR Sound website describes the financial conditions which have led to the closure:-
It is with much regret we have to announce, that as of Sunday 22nd of June, your local Community Radio Station, 103.7 FM TGR Sound will cease broadcasting.
Since its launch in 2004, the station has provided over 300 community groups with support and free publicity for their events and services, trained in excess of 5,000 people and forged partnerships with 200 organisations. This has all been achieved by the hard work and dedication of a team of mainly volunteers.
103.7FM TGR Sound was well regarded by OFCOM and had become as one of the foremost community radio stations and possibly one of the only stations that would have been in a position to offer ‘Live’ broadcasting from 6.00am to Midnight, seven days a week had it been able to continue.
However despite the efforts of our members to bring in advertising and sponsorship from the local councils and both local and national companies, it has proved an impossible task in an increasingly difficult and competitive environment.
Although regular revenue from training and hosting festivals existed, it is not sufficient to cover the total costs of running an FM Radio Station and therefore we became increasingly dependant on grants and funding to survive and pay for the cost of rent, electricity and other essential services. These forms of funding by their very nature cannot be guaranteed and a succession of rejected applications have left 103.7 FM TGR Sound with no major source of income for the remainder of this year.
We would like to thank everyone for all their hard-work and involvement – not only the volunteers but the community groups, organisations and individuals who helped to make 103.7 FM TGR Sound the number one listened to local radio station across Bexley, Dartford, Thamesmead and Woolwich.
