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Oak FM - are they both the same

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posted on Sunday 10th July 2011 at 13:29

Media UK lists two services for Oak FM – one for Hinckley and one for Loughborough.

Is the programming identical on both? We should probably remove the Hinckley station if that’s the case.

Paul Easton posted on Monday 11th July 2011 at 09:09

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

James Cridland posted on Monday 11th July 2011 at 09:25

Perfect, thank you. I’ll dig out the ‘merge’ script… ;)

Martin Phillp posted on Monday 11th July 2011 at 11:40

Erm…they split on Sunday evenings. One licence has an Asian show, the other another specialist show.

James Cridland posted on Tuesday 12th July 2011 at 14:17

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).

Martin Phillp posted on Tuesday 12th July 2011 at 14:53

The More Radio’s should be merged, although Bath is becoming The Breeze in November. Same for the Total Star Somerset licences.

James Martin posted on Thursday 14th July 2011 at 01:33

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? ;)

James Martin posted on Thursday 14th July 2011 at 01:34 edit this post

Also the RDS information is wrong. On both frequencies, the text now reads “_Oak_FM_”

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