"by buying the Faze FM operated stations which were Kiss 102 in Manchester (which became Galaxy Manchester) and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire (which became Galaxy Yorkshire) respectively. In 1998, black community station Choice FM was acquired in Birmingham and became Galaxy Birmingham. Chrysalis Radio scored another success in 1999 with the Radio Authority's award of the North East regional licence to Galaxy North East. However, Galaxy 101's success in Bristol was starting to falter, and the station was sold to the GWR Group in 2002, becoming Vibe 101 (now Kiss 101). On 7 November 2008, Xfm Scotland became Galaxy Scotland"
"Town 102 Town 102 is a radio station serving Ipswich, previously owned by Tindle Radio and the Anglian Radio Group now owned by Celador. The station's slogan is ""Just Great Songs for Ipswich"", the playout is identical to sister stations Dream 100, North Norfolk Radio, Radio Norwich 99.9 and The Beach with the exception of Jingles, Adverts and local news and travel. All 5 radio stations are output from a single system at Radio Norwich 99.9's headquarters. Its last set of RAJAR results, published in February 2018, were the lowest ever, with a reach of just 36,000 weekly listeners (down"
"85th largest metro area in the United States. The 12+ population is estimated at 603,000. The overall population of the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz Market is 710,000 The transmitter for KC102 is located at Williams Hill, California KC102 is at 102.1 on the FM dial. It is an FCC authorized Class B 50,000 watt signal. KC102 features a Hot AC format. The KC102 on air slogan is ""Caution May Contain Awesome..."" Its sister station KRKC is at 1490AM and 104.9 FM. Its on-air slogan is ""KRKC Country"". The main DJ personality on KC102 is Michael Davis (28 years) in afternoon drive. Long"
"Ipswich 102 Ipswich 102 is a local radio station serving Ipswich. The station took over the FM frequency from Town 102 on 18th October 2018, 10 weeks after launching on DAB Digital Radio on 1st August 2018. The station is owned by the shareholders in MuxCo Suffolk Ltd, the company that operates the DAB Digital Radio multiplex that broadcasts to the area. The licence for the area had previously been held by Town 102 but Ofcom awarded the licence to Ipswich 102. This had been the first time in its history that Ofcom had not awarded a re-advertised licence to"
"KRKC-FM KRKC-FM (102.1 FM, ""KC 102"") is a radio station licensed to King City, California in the Monterey, California radio market. It is owned by King City Communications Corporation. The Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market includes all of Monterey County and Santa Cruz County. KRKC FM/AM has been owned by King City Communications Corporation since 1982. KC102 plays current Hot AC rock music and a mix of classic hits from the past 25 years. KC102 also covers Northern San Luis Obispo County the Big Sur region and other portions of the Central Coast of California. Monterey is Nielsen Rated Market #85. The"
"the station Ipswich 102 replaced. Ipswich 102 Ipswich 102 is a local radio station serving Ipswich. The station took over the FM frequency from Town 102 on 18th October 2018, 10 weeks after launching on DAB Digital Radio on 1st August 2018. The station is owned by the shareholders in MuxCo Suffolk Ltd, the company that operates the DAB Digital Radio multiplex that broadcasts to the area. The licence for the area had previously been held by Town 102 but Ofcom awarded the licence to Ipswich 102. This had been the first time in its history that Ofcom had not"
"Radio 702 702 is a commercial FM radio station based in Johannesburg, South Africa, broadcasting on FM 92.7 and FM 106 to the greater Gauteng province. The station is also webcast via its website. It claims to be Johannesburg's number one news and talk station, offering news, sport, business and actuality programming and plenty of phone-in debates. The station itself was established in 1980 and was initially a young adult music station, moving to a talk format in 1988. During South Africa's apartheid era it, and Capital Radio 604, were the only independent sources of broadcast news. The station is"
"Q102.9 Q102.9, ""Northwest's Best Music"", is a radio station based in Derry, County Londonderry. It broadcasts on FM 102.9 to the north west of Northern Ireland, Q102 also broadcasts via DAB (Digital Radio) throughout Northern Ireland via the Score NI multiplex. It is part of the Q Radio Network, which also owns a number of other stations in Northern Ireland. The station also broadcasts to parts of County Donegal, chiefly Inishowen and East Donegal. The station is one of the sponsors of local football team, Derry City F.C., for their 2007 season. Q102.9fm was formerly known (prior to licence) as"
"their local studios in Lowestoft and Stody and from the following day their output originated from the studios of Radio Norwich in Thorpe St Andrew, and was the same on all three stations, with the exception of commercials, individual local travel broadcasts, local events updates, and station idents. Celador Radio acquired Anglian Radio shortly after, on 31 January 2017. From 11 September 2017, all five stations were broadcast from the Norwich studios and the Ipswich headquarters were subsequently vacated. A smaller base in Ipswich was acquired for news and sales staff. On 12 June 2018, Ofcom announced that Town 102"
"Station of the Year in 2013. Touch FM's Pride of Stratford Awards won the Arqiva Commercial Radio marketing award in 2012. Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon) 102 Touch FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the town of Stratford-upon-Avon and much of the counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire, The Cotswolds and the surrounding area in the south of the English Midlands. They play a mix of new music and classics. The station, which launched in 1996 as FM102 The Bear and was later known as The Bear 102, was taken over by Cumbria-based CN Group in 2001 and relaunched, along with"
"from a peak of 68,000 in Q4, 2014). On 12 June 2018 Town 102's licence was not renewed when, for the first time since its inception, Ofcom, did not award a re-advertised licence to the incumbent licensee. Consequently, Ipswich 102 replaced Town 102 on 19th October 2018. Programmes between 0600 and 1900 Monday to Friday and between 0800 and 1200 on Saturday and Sunday are produced in Norwich. Some programmes outside these times are shared with The Breeze network of radio stations. Town 102 Town 102 is a radio station serving Ipswich, previously owned by Tindle Radio and the Anglian"
"Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon) 102 Touch FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the town of Stratford-upon-Avon and much of the counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire, The Cotswolds and the surrounding area in the south of the English Midlands. They play a mix of new music and classics. The station, which launched in 1996 as FM102 The Bear and was later known as The Bear 102, was taken over by Cumbria-based CN Group in 2001 and relaunched, along with Kix 96 in Coventry, as Touch FM on 16 January 2006. The Midlands stations are now known as Touch FM. In"
"Group, LLC. WGUS-FM WGUS-FM 102.7 is a Southern Gospel radio station licensed to New Ellenton, South Carolina, but is part of the Augusta, Georgia radio market. The station is licensed by the FCC to broadcast on 102.7 FM with an ERP of 4.3 kW. Its studios are located just two blocks from the Augusta-Richmond County border in unincorporated Columbia County, Georgia and the transmitter is east of Aiken, South Carolina. 102.7 signed on in 1990 as WAJY with an Adult Standards format as ""Joy 102.7"". In 2004, it became Contemporary Christian under the Joy 102.7 moniker for a brief time"
"local advertising remains locally sold. All programming, with the exception of weekday breakfast/drivetime and weekend afternoons, originates from Capital studios in Leicester Square, London. Specialist dance music programming remains on overnights excluding Sunday. Galaxy fell silent on 30 June 2015 when a MXR Yorkshire ensembles was closed and Capital moving to local multiplexes. Galaxy (radio network) Galaxy was a radio network owned by Global Radio and broadcast across the British Isles on FM in regional areas of England and Scotland, through the digital platform with Sky and DAB and online respectively. Stations included stations: Galaxy Birmingham, Galaxy Manchester, Galaxy North"
"Powell's Infinity Radio consultancy, and included shareholders UKRD, Eastern Counties Newspaper Group and 3i. Gary Burton, who had presented at Radio Trent for much of the 1980's and early 1990's, was Kiss 102's first breakfast presenter. The station became a victim of its own success when months after opening a second station, the Yorkshire regional Kiss 105, the station's board accepted a £17.6 million takeover bid from the Chrysalis Group in 1996 for a company that had cost just £600k to set up three years earlier. Chrysalis rebranded the station as Galaxy 102 in 1997. Eleven days after the transfer"
"all programming is shared with Town 102 using the same playout and announcer but with station unique idents. Dream 100 FM Dream 100 (100.2 FM) is an Independent Local Radio station that formerly broadcast 24 hours a day across north east Essex and south east Suffolk from Colchester. Since the inception of sister station Town 102 in Ipswich in 2006, Town 102 has taken over the South Suffolk broadcasting area, leaving Dream 100 to focus on North Essex. The station has its roots as Mellow 1557 on 1557MW in 1990. On September 1, 1998, it was sold by Radio First"
"rule that a DJ could not mention Derry or Londonderry but should only refer to the city as 'the maiden city' or 'the capital of the north-west'. Some of the original broadcasters on Riverside 101 included Steve Marshall, Vince Martin, Frankie's brother Pascal, Mike Henry, John Young (Mc Laughlin), Paul Mc Cafferty, Delbert Jackson, Nikki Walker/Joanne Savage, Peter Wright, Neal McClelland & Joe Ferguson. Q102.9 Q102.9, ""Northwest's Best Music"", is a radio station based in Derry, County Londonderry. It broadcasts on FM 102.9 to the north west of Northern Ireland, Q102 also broadcasts via DAB (Digital Radio) throughout Northern Ireland"
"WGUS-FM WGUS-FM 102.7 is a Southern Gospel radio station licensed to New Ellenton, South Carolina, but is part of the Augusta, Georgia radio market. The station is licensed by the FCC to broadcast on 102.7 FM with an ERP of 4.3 kW. Its studios are located just two blocks from the Augusta-Richmond County border in unincorporated Columbia County, Georgia and the transmitter is east of Aiken, South Carolina. 102.7 signed on in 1990 as WAJY with an Adult Standards format as ""Joy 102.7"". In 2004, it became Contemporary Christian under the Joy 102.7 moniker for a brief time before being"
"was launched in 1990 in South West England – initially broadcasting solely from Bristol – and operated under the Chiltern Radio Group. In 1994 the station won the first regional FM licence and moved frequency to 101.0 MHz, rebranded as Galaxy 101 and expanded coverage to include South Wales. At the same time a second studio was opened in Cardiff to provide some programming alongside the existing Bristol studio. Chrysalis Radio purchased the station in 1996 and, a year later, expanded the network by buying Faze FM's stations: Kiss 102 in Manchester and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire. In 1998, black"
"from ""Majic 102"" to avoid it. KTCX KTCX is an Urban Contemporary formatted radio station in Beaumont, Texas. It serves the entire Golden Triangle and is owned by Cumulus Media. The station's studios are located on South Eleventh Street in Beaumont, and its transmitter is located between Beaumont and Fannett. KTCX ""Magic 102.5"" was launched on December 3, 1998 based on its current format. Because it is the market's only Urban-formatted station of any kind, it plays a variety of Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Old School, and Gospel music to cater to all African American demographics including the Mainstream audience"
"the XYZ Building in the Spinningfields district of Manchester City Centre. Capital Manchester shares facilities with sister station Heart North West and two Communicorp-owned stations, Smooth North West and XS Manchester. Capital Manchester (2011 - present) Galaxy 102 (1997 - 2011) Kiss 102 (1994 - 1997) Local programming is produced and broadcast from Capital's Manchester studios from 6-10am and 4-7pm on weekdays and 12-4pm at weekends. All networked programming originates from Global Radio's London headquarters, including the syndicated ""Vodafone Big Top 40"" on Sunday afternoons. The station's local presenters are Rob Ellis, Rachel Burke-Davies and Nigel 'Wingman' Clucas (""Capital Breakfast""),"
"of glass allowing people to see DJs at work similar to the ""Good Morning America"" Studios. Galaxy divested itself of its Albany, New York cluster and swapped several stations in a multi-owner deal that included Clear Channel Communications in Utica/Rome 2007. In October 2016, Galaxy Communications (through Galaxy II Media, LLC) agreed to acquire Gamma Broadcasting's stations in Berkshire County, Massachusetts for $3.15 million: WBEC, WBEC-FM, and WUPE in Pittsfield, WNAW and WUPE-FM in North Adams, and WSBS in Great Barrington. In 2018, Galaxy Communications rebranded to Galaxy Media company and brought aboard 10 new investors to buy out the"
"Beat 102 103 Beat 102 103 is an independent regional radio station in Republic of Ireland licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland covering counties Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Tipperary in South East Ireland. It began broadcasting on 1 July 2003 from studios at The Broadcast Centre, Ardkeen, Waterford City (shared with Waterford station WLR FM), becoming the first station to operate under a regional licence. The station is a Top 40 Hit/CHR station aimed at listeners aged between 15 and 35. On 13 April 2007, Cork based Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) announced it had acquired 75% ownership of"
"shutdown in June 2007. Today the station is known as 702. Radio 702 702 is a commercial FM radio station based in Johannesburg, South Africa, broadcasting on FM 92.7 and FM 106 to the greater Gauteng province. The station is also webcast via its website. It claims to be Johannesburg's number one news and talk station, offering news, sport, business and actuality programming and plenty of phone-in debates. The station itself was established in 1980 and was initially a young adult music station, moving to a talk format in 1988. During South Africa's apartheid era it, and Capital Radio 604,"
"KKGO KKGO (105.1 MHz, ""Go Country 105"") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California and broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area. The station airs a country music format. KKGO was founded by Saul Levine and is still owned by his corporation, Mount Wilson Broadcasting. It remains the only independently owned-and-operated commercial FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles. Saul Levine launched the station at 105.1 FM in February 1959 as KBCA, one of the first FM stations to broadcast from Mount Wilson. In 1979, the station changed its callsign to KKGO. This was prompted by"
"Press International Texas Broadcasters' Association (UPIBAT) for outstanding achievement in radio broadcast journalism. The original KAJC was later sold and now operates in Houston as Magic 102. KAJC KAJC (90.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format. Licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States. The station was established by CSN International, and is currently owned by Calvary Chapel Monmouth-Independence. The station was assigned the call sign KAJC on October 8, 2002. CSN International filed an application to change the city of license to Millersburg, to increase power, and to move the transmitter location. This application was granted on"
"the City of Discovery after the RRS ""Discovery"", which is docked there. The brand name was changed to Wave 102 after The Discovery Channel stated that people would mistakenly associate the station with its network. On 15 May 2008 New Wave Media became the new owners of Wave 102, which was eventually joined by sister stations Original 106 in Aberdeen and Central FM in the Forth Valley. On 26 October 2016 Ofcom approved an application from Wave 102 and Heartland FM to allow Wave 102 to take over the 106.6FM transmitter covering Perth. On Monday the 9th of January 2017"
"WRNY simulcast to become variety hits-formatted ""Tony FM"", a simulcast of WKLL-HD2. Galaxy then switched WIXT to Tony FM on March 23, 2018, in order to ensure full market coverage of the format. WIXT (AM) WIXT is an AM radio station broadcasting on a frequency of 1230 kHz and licensed to the city of Little Falls, New York. Owned by Galaxy Communications, the station airs a variety hits format under the branding Tony FM 99.1. WIXT signed on June 22, 1952 under the call letters WLFH (the call letters stood for Little Falls and nearby Herkimer, two of its primary"
"FM in Preston as the weekend overnight presenter. Aged 20, she moved to London where she produced and co-hosted the breakfast show as part of ""Flynn and McGlynn in the Morning"" on Millennium FM. From 1999 to 2000 she worked as a presenter for Virgin Megastore Radio in London. And in 2000 she was co-presenter and producer of the breakfast show on Channel 4 FM, Dubai, UAE. She then moved back to England and worked as a presenter on Juice 107.6 in Liverpool until 2001. Later that year she moved to Galaxy 102 in Manchester, where she was presented the"
"Star 102.7 Star 102.7 FM (Formally Zinc 102.7) (ACMA callsign: 4ca is an adult contemporary-formatted commercial radio station based in Cairns, Queensland and broadcasting to, owned by Grant Broadcasters. Prior to 2009, the station was known as 4CA-FM, and was the second FM station in the market (after 103.5 Hot FM). 4CA-FM was purchased by Prime Media Group Limited in 2005 from Macquarie Regional RadioWorks, and was rebranded as 102.7 Zinc FM on 23 March 2009. At that time, the 4CA branding returned to sister station 4EL. In August 2013 Grant Broadcasters acquired the station and Prime Media's other nine"
"102.7FM (Toowoomba) 102.7FM (ACMA callsign: 4DDB) is a community radio station operating in Toowoomba, Queensland. Established in the 1970s, it broadcasts from studios in the city's CBD, and is transmitted from the University of Southern Queensland in Darling Heights. It is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Association. 102.7FM's signal propagates throughout Toowoomba, the Darling Downs and Lockyer Valley and listeners report acceptable signals from as far away as North Brisbane, the Lockyer Valley, Dalby, over the NSW border and to the South Burnett. As a ""generalist"" style community broadcaster, 102.7FM seeks simply to connect with its audience"
"702 is a commercial FM radio station based in Johannesburg, South Africa, broadcasting on FM 92.7 and FM 106 to the greater Gauteng province. It was established in 1980. KFM is a FM radio station based in the Western Cape, South Africa. 947 is a radio station that broadcasts on the 94.7FM frequency from Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Eyewitness News is Primedia Broadcasting’s news brand. Crimeline is an independent Initiative started by Primedia aimed at helping South African authorities fight crime through anonymous tip-offs. Lead SA is a Primedia Broadcasting initiative, supported by Independent Newspapers to promote active citizenship. Founded"
"Capital Birmingham Capital Birmingham is a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network. It broadcasts to the West Midlands from studios at Brindleyplace in Birmingham City Centre. Capital Birmingham's transmitter is located at Metropolitan House on the A456. It is also available on DAB via the Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury and Telford multiplexes. The station began broadcasting as Choice FM on 1 January 1995, after taking over the licence previously operated by Buzz FM. Four years later, Choice was renamed as Galaxy after it was bought out by Chrysalis. Galaxy"