Oak FM - are they both the same
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Is the programming identical on both? We should probably remove the Hinckley station if that’s the case.
Perfect, thank you. I’ll dig out the ‘merge’ script… ;)
Erm…they split on Sunday evenings. One licence has an Asian show, the other another specialist show.
That sounds like an opt-out service to me, and therefore doesn’t qualify as a separate radio station. (Similarly, BBC Radio 4 LW and FM are about to be merged too).
The More Radio’s should be merged, although Bath is becoming The Breeze in November. Same for the Total Star Somerset licences.
Basically, yes. Advertising is split, as are Sunday evenings with three hours of Asian music in Loughborough and Country music in Hinckley. Otherwise it’s the same across 107 and 107.9.
Do we have to remove the Hinckley one? ;)
Also the RDS information is wrong. On both frequencies, the text now reads “_Oak_FM_”
They remain separate licences but all programming is shared between the two stations.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/broadcast/radio-ops/formats/Loughborough.pdf
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/broadcast/radio-ops/formats/Hinckley.pdf