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Lincs FM 102.2 - news archive

This is an archive of news about Lincs FM 102.2. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Lincs FM is all show
From Radio Today. Posted May 16 2008, 11.21am
Lincs FM is once again operating the RSL Lincolnshire Show Radio next month. It's the tenth year the station has been on air, broadcasting exclusive interviews, reports and travel news for the agricultural event. (more)

Lincs creates Yorkshire deal
From Radio Today. Posted April 8 2008, 8.15am
The Lincs FM Group have launched a new regional sales division, representing Dearne FM, Ridings FM, Rother FM and Trax FM, to be known as the Yorkshire Radio Network. (more)

Lincs FM Catches Listeners
From Radio Today. Posted March 11 2008, 12.23pm
Lincs FM will becomes the first radio station in the UK to launch an innovative new music download service, called Catch. (more)

MuxCo win Lincolnshire DAB
From Radio Today. Posted February 19 2008, 5.17pm
Ofcom has awarded the DAB multiplex licence for Lincolnshire to MuxCo. The company, led by former GCap execs Gregory Watson and Matt Deegan, was the only applicant for the licence. The Lincs FM Group will have a majority shareholding in the multiplex. (more)

New high for Dearne FM
From Radio Today. Posted January 31 2008, 11.28am
Barnsley's Dearne FM is celebrating its highest ever total reach in the Q4/07 RAJAR figures. It now has 73,000 listeners per week - the most since the station's launch almost 5 years ago. Elsewhere around the Lincs FM group there were steady increases in hours across most of the areas covered. (more)

Lincs FM plans country station
From Radio Today. Posted January 24 2008, 11.05am
Lincs FM has teamed up with MuxCo to apply for the local digital radio multiplex covering Lincolnshire. The sole applicant proposes five new services, including a 24 hour country music station named Lincs Country, UCB and Traffic Radio. (more)

Lincs FM Group on the up
From Radio Today. Posted October 25 2007, 9.50am
Fosseway Radio is recording its highest ever audience share this quarter, now standing at 8.7 per cent, and average hours back over 10 per listener. Lincs FM, including Compass FM and Rutland Radio takes a drop in hours but reach remains steady at 40 per cent. (more)

EXCLUSIVE: Lincs FM buys Oak
From Radio Today. Posted October 19 2007, 8.49pm
The Lincs FM Group has purchased Oak 107 FM from CN Group, RadioToday.co.uk can reveal. This latest addition brings the total number of stations owned by the growing group to nine. Oak will work closely with the group's other Leicestershire based station, Fosseway Radio. (more)

Trax FM departs Bassetlaw
From Radio Today. Posted March 16 2007, 12.00am
Bassetlaw radio station Trax FM is moving out of town. Owners Lincs FM Group applied to Ofcom to co-locate the station with Doncaster's Trax FM, and cut the hours of local programming each day in half. Now, just four hours a day are aimed at Bassetlaw but will be hosted in Doncaster. (more)

Rotherham station launched
From Radio Today. Posted October 15 2006, 11.17pm
The newly licenced Lincs FM Group station Rother FM has commenced broadcasting today at 10am in Rotherham. (more)

Local group KCFM win Hull licence
From Radio Today. Posted July 6 2006, 5.30pm
Local radio group KCFM have won the battle for the new FM commercial radio station for Kingston-upon-Hull. Ofcom received seven applications in total including submissions from UTV Radio, TLRC, Lincs FM and CanWest. The owners of KCFM 99.9 are SMC Ltd (29%) with the reminder of the shares held by six individuals. It will provide 'a truly local, full service radio station for Kingston-upon-Hull playing a wide variety of classic hit music from the last four decades, with 24 hour-a-day local news, sport, information, interviews and entertaining features of particular relevance to the City and the surrounding area'. (more)

Ofcom explains Rotherham award
From Radio Today. Posted May 19 2006, 1.45pm
It was a battle between three companies, all of which operate a network of local radio stations in the North of England. UTV proposed Rotherham Radio, with support from neighbouring Peak FM in Chesterfield and The Pulse in Bradford. TLRC have Stray FM in Harrogate and Minster FM in York and applied for the Rotherham licence as Renaissance FM, and the application from the Lincs FM Group had the backing of Dearne FM in Barnsley and Trax FM next door in Doncaster. In the end it was the support of Lincs FM Group stations which helped Rother FM win the licence for Rotherham, as Ofcom have explained today. No more than 12 hours a week of network programming will be broadcast, and Ofcom explained that the locally based group will bring considerable experience of operating successful smaller stations in similar-sized markets adjacent to Rotherham. They also recognised the realism of the group’s financial projections, the radio experience of its board and the clear recognition that the Rotherham licence would present a different challenge to other nearby markets. (more)

Lincs FM Group wins Rotherham radio licence
From Brand Republic. Posted May 12 2006, 11.05am
LONDON – The new FM local commercial radio licence has been awarded to Lincs FM Group's Rother FM bid, with Ulster Television and Renaissance Radio losing out. (more)

Rother FM win Rotherham licence
From Radio Today. Posted May 11 2006, 6.00pm
Ofcom have awarded the new licence for Rotherham to Rother FM, owned by Lincs FM Plc. This was a particular interesting milestone for Ofcom licence awards as all three applications 'ticked the right boxes' as far as previous licence awards for smaller stations are concerned. All three applicants, TLRC, UTV and Lincs FM own and operate stations nearby so could all benefit from having a local neighbour. It will provide 'a truly local radio station for Rotherham with a high quality news and information service that puts Rotherham first, and a popular and distinctive blend of music- a station designed to appeal to adults and children alike.' (more)

Lincs FM Group applies for Hull
From Radio Today. Posted March 14 2006, 5.28pm
White Rose Radio is promising to deliver a new style of radio station for Hull, Beverley, Goole and the surrounding area if it wins the recently advertised commercial radio licence. The station will, if successful in its application to become the area’s new, permanent commercial radio station, broadcast in an uncluttered, relaxed and mature style and play a varied and original blend of music from the 1950s to the present day, including classic hits and albums tracks from today’s pop artists as well as more easy listening styles, soul, classic rock and country. (more)

Seven applications for Hull
From Radio Today. Posted March 9 2006, 12.26pm
The closing date has passed for applications for a new FM radio licence for Hull - and it's a lucky number seven. Seven groups ranging from TLRC and Lincs FM (who have stations nearby) to CanWest (the largest media owner in Canada) have applied for the licence, which is expected to be awarded in the summer. (more)

Three apply for Rotherham
From Radio Today. Posted February 9 2006, 10.48am
Ofcom has received three applications for the Rotherham commercial radio licence. These are 96.1 FM Radio Rotherham (UTV Radio), Renaissance FM (TLRC) and Rother FM (Lincs FM). The closing date was yesterday (8th February) and a decision is expected to be made by Ofcom on 11th May 2006. (more)