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Ocean FM - news archive

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

Ocean FM breach format
From Radio Today. Posted June 9 2008, 11.26am
Ofcom have found Ocean FM in breach of its format for the second time in eight months.Despite the formal breach, which the regulators considered "at odds with the core format promise" and "failing to fulfill the spirit of the station licence", the station has not been penalised. (more)

Smooth Radio goes continental
From Radio Today. Posted January 16 2008, 8.20am
Radio stations from around Europe have teamed up with 100.4 Smooth Radio in the north-west of England for a holiday promotion with Ocean Village. (more)

Wales gets GMG Radio crown
From Radio Today. Posted December 12 2007, 12.04pm
Real Radio Wales has been awarded radio station of the year at the GMG Radio Christmas party and awards ceremony. Staff mingled with the stars including Westlife, McFly, Billy Ocean and Gabrielle at the glitzy event in Manchester on Saturday. (more)

Yellow Card for Ocean FM
From Radio Today. Posted November 30 2007, 12.16pm
GCap Media's South Hampshire station Ocean FM has been issued a yellow card by Ofcom for not operating within its Format. The station has failed to play predominantly current Adult Contemporary tracks, instead concentrating on adult and alternative modern rock. (more)

Ex-Gold jock finds the Spirit
From Radio Today. Posted September 25 2007, 12.53pm
Kevin King, former breakfast show presenter on Capital Gold Hampshire is joining Spirit FM from Monday. He will replace Paul Williams on breakfast who moves to mid-mornings. Kevin is a familiar voice in the area, having previous worked at Ocean Sound and South Coast Radio. (more)

Transmission problems continue on Canada?s Prince Edward Island
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 13 2007, 10.03am
Most radio stations on Canada’s Prince Edward Island (PEI) will broadcast on reduced power for at least another week as work continues to fix a damaged antenna. All CBC Radio and Radio-Canada stations are affected by the problem at the Churchill transmission tower, as are most private radio stations. Magic 93, K-Rock, CFCY and Ocean 100 are [...] (more)

Heart lines up sponsorship deal with cruise operator
From Brand Republic. Posted January 10 2007, 11.01am
LONDON - Chrysalis Radio's Heart network has secured a six-figure sponsorship from cruise operator Ocean Village for its Saturday morning shows. (more)

XFM Winter Wonderland Concert Success
From Merry Media. Posted December 12 2006, 5.25pm
Kasabian, The Kooks, The Feeling, Tenacious D, Ocean Colour Scene, Manic Street Preachers and The Fratellis were just some of the star acts making a noise about bad housing and homelessness in support of Shelter at Xfm's Winter Wonderland concerts over the weekend.. (more)

XM Radio?s XM-4 satellite successfully delivered to transfer orbit
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 31 2006, 2.24pm
XM Satellite Radio has announced the successful launch of its XM-4 satellite. Liftoff occurred yesterday at 6:49 pm ET from the Sea Launch Odyssey Launch Platform in open waters of the Pacific Ocean on the equator. The XM-4 satellite was inserted directly into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, on its way to an orbital location for [...] (more)

Koreasat-5 to be launched tomorrow
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 21 2006, 4.11pm
KT, South Korea’s largest fixedline and broadband operator, said today that it will send its fourth commercial satellite into orbit from the Pacific Ocean this week, marking the nation’s first satellite launch from the open sea. Koreasat-5 will be launched at 12:27 p.m. Tuesday from an area south of Hawaii. The launch will be controlled by an [...] (more)

Biggest Winners and Losers
From Radio Today. Posted May 11 2006, 12.00pm
As part of our RAJAR Q1 2006 coverage, we bring you the stations with the biggest jumps in figures. The Biggest Winners in terms of Reach: - Up 8%: Fen Radio 107.5 - Up 4%: BBC Radio Wiltshire/Swindon 97.2 Stray FM Dream 100 BBC Radio Norfolk The Pulse of West Yorkshire The Biggest Losers in terms of Reach: - Down 5%: BBC Radio Ulster Orchard FM BBC Radio Cumbria 96.9 Chiltern FM (Bedford) - Down 4%: Ocean FM Northsound One 96.2 Touch FM (formerly KIX96.2fm) 99.8FM 2BR Mercia FM (more)

Breaking News: Tsunami warnings issued for Fiji and New Zealand
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 3 2006, 6.10pm
Tsunami warnings have been issued for Fiji and New Zealand after an earthquake measuring a magnitude of about 8.0 shook the southern Pacific Ocean at 1526 UTC. The quake's epicentre was about 90 miles off the coast of Tonga, according to the US Geological Survey. Radio New Zealand International has signed on for the day, and can be heard worldwide via the live audio streams on this page. (more)

SES Americom retires Spacenet-4 After 15 years' service
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 19 2006, 2.14pm
SES Americom has conducted its last operations on the Spacenet-4 (SN-4) satellite, safely de-orbiting the satellite more than 200 km beyond the geosynchronous orbital belt. Since late 2000, the satellite provided C-band intercontinental connectivity across the Pacific Ocean from 172 degrees East to customers delivering content between East Asia and the US west coast. In operation since 1991, SN-4 (more)

PanAmSat blankets New Zealand, New Caledonia and Fiji with new services
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 17 2006, 3.19pm
PanAmSat today announced that it has repointed a beam on the PAS-8 Pacific Ocean Region satellite to effectively reach every corner of New Zealand, New Caledonia and Fiji. The Company recently received authorisation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to redirect the Ku-band South East Asia beam of the PAS-8 Satellite to cover the southwest Pacific, thus opening up these markets for (more)

New PD appointed at Q102 Dublin
From Radio Today. Posted February 13 2006, 5.04pm
Mark Sadler (36) will join Dublin’s Q102 as Programme Director in April 2006. Mark is joining Q102 from MTV Networks UK & Ireland where he has been Vice President, Music, since 2002 with responsibility for devising the music policy for 9 MTV, TMF and VH1 branded channels. With more than 12 years commercial radio experience, Mark has enjoyed a highly successful 10 year career with Capital Radio plc where he was appointed Regional Programme Director of South Coast Operations in 2000. He has also worked as Programme Director at Capital’s Southern FM, Power FM and Ocean FM helping these stations achieve record audiences. (more)

New PD at Q102 Dublin
From Radio Today. Posted February 13 2006, 5.04pm
Mark Sadler will join Dublin’s Q102 as Programme Director in April 2006. Mark is joining Q102 from MTV Networks UK & Ireland where he has been Vice President, Music, since 2002 with responsibility for devising the music policy for 9 MTV, TMF and VH1 branded channels. With more than 12 years commercial radio experience, Mark has enjoyed a highly successful 10 year career with Capital Radio plc where he was appointed Regional Programme Director of South Coast Operations in 2000. He has also worked as Programme Director at Capital’s Southern FM, Power FM and Ocean FM helping these stations achieve record audiences. (more)