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Touch Radio (Tamworth) - news archive

This is an archive of news about Touch Radio (Tamworth). Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Non-Stop Xmas at Touch FM
From Radio Today. Posted December 10 2007, 8.54am
CN Group station 96.2 Touch FM in Coventry has flipped to an all Christmas format - for listeners on DAB digital radio. Programmes on FM will remain as normal, and will re-appear on DAB on Boxing Day. (more)

EXCLUSIVE: Touch co-location
From Radio Today. Posted October 17 2007, 8.15am
CN Group radio stations in the midlands have been given permission from Ofcom to co-locate, RadioToday.co.uk can reveal. A new studio centre in Kenilworth will house Rugby FM, Touch FM Coventry and Touch FM Stratford upon-Avon from next year. (more)

Touch and Rugby to co-locate
From Radio Today. Posted October 17 2007, 8.15am
CN Group radio stations in the Midlands have been given permission from Ofcom to co-locate, RadioToday.co.uk can reveal. A new studio centre in Honiley, Kenilworth will house Rugby FM, Touch FM Coventry, Touch FM Warwick and Touch FM Stratford upon-Avon from next year. (more)

CN celebrate with Citybeat
From Radio Today. Posted August 16 2007, 7.56am
Belfast station Citybeat 96.7 is celebrating an increase in figures today as 21,000 new listeners takes the bums-on-seats figure to 146,000. Average hours are also up 1.1 per cent. The news is not so good at other CN stations though, with The Bay and Touch FM's Midland network losing listeners and hours. (more)

Editor defends local radio ?news hub? system
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted August 3 2007, 8.02am
Merging small local newsrooms into one big centralised ‘hub’ has improved - not compromised - the quality of radio journalism. That’s the view of CN Radio regional editor Daniel Bruce - the senior journalist in charge of the group’s news output across the five-station Touch FM network in the Midlands, plus Oak 107 in Loughborough. In a [...] (more)

Editor defends local radio news hub system
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted August 3 2007, 8.02am
Merging small local newsrooms into one big centralised ‘hub’ has improved - not compromised - the quality of radio journalism. That’s the view of CN Radio regional editor Daniel Bruce - the senior journalist in charge of the group’s news output across the five-station Touch FM network in the Midlands, plus Oak 107 in Loughborough. In a [...] (more)

Lianna joins TLRC for Late Show
From Radio Today. Posted July 8 2007, 3.07pm
Touch FM Coventry presenter Lianna Lawrence has been hired by The Local Radio Company to host the networked late show. The interactive programme will air on nearly 30 stations from August 12th. At the same time, Tom Stroud will takeover the networked evening show. (more)

Touch FM Favourites in the East Midlands
From Merry Media. Posted May 24 2007, 5.30pm
The Breakfast Show on Touch FM 107.6 hosted by Dale Collins has been voted the Best in the East Midlands in a poll on Merry Media.. (more)

RAJAR Quarter 2 2006 results
From Radio Today. Posted August 3 2006, 1.30am
Official UK radio industry listening figures are out today, with details of listening habits for almost every commercial and BBC radio station in the country. RAJAR Quarter 2 2006 will see eight new stations reporting for the first time, including U105 in Belfast and talk107 in Edinburgh. Most Emap local stations will have a revised TSA whilst stations which have changed their name will find out if it has any impact in audience numbers. In the last quarter, the Touch FM brand was born, and BBC GMR changed name back to BBC Radio Manchester. (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)

Centre re-branded as Touch FM
From Radio Today. Posted April 30 2006, 4.04pm
CN-Group owned Centre FM is no more. The station re-branded as Touch FM at 12pm with an impressive launch sequence - and an on-air launch in Coopers Square Shopping Centre in Burton-upon-Trent. The Sugababes 'Pushed the Button' to launch whilst the breakfast host Dave James was the first presenter on the station. Centre FM launched on June 1st 1998 and leaves behind it nearly eight years of heritage in Tamworth and surround areas. The re-branding of Centre FM brings the 4th station to join the new Touch brand. Kix 96.2 and The Bear re-branded earlier this year - and the new station for Banbury started life as Touch FM in 25th february 2006. (more)

Yellow card for Touch Coventry
From Radio Today. Posted April 24 2006, 2.45am
Touch FM 96.2 (formerly known as Kix 96.2 FM) has been issued with a temporary 'Yellow Card' from Ofcom for breaching their format. Content Sampling Reports is the new buzz term at Ofcom as they concentrate on output rather than input - relaxing rules on how the programme is made, but concentrating on what the listener hears. The new reports are to be the main tool by which Ofcom will regulate stations, as outlined in the end-of-consultation Regulatory Statement on 'Radio - Preparing for the Future (Phase 2)', published in February. (more)

Banbury now In Touch
From Radio Today. Posted February 25 2006, 3.40pm
Banbury's newest radio station 107.6 Touch FM launched today at 10AM from the Castle Quays Shopping Centre. The station went live across much of Oxfordshire and beyond when popstars The ugababes "Pushed the Button" with a special message, as their chart-topping single was played out as the first song. (more)

CN Group launch Touch brand
From Radio Today. Posted January 16 2006, 8.06am
Following the 'closedown' of two CN Group-owned radio stations last week, Touch FM 96.2 in Coventry and Touch FM 102 in Stratford-upon-Avon have officially launched at 8am today. Following an impressive five-minute launch sequence the first song played on 102 was Robbie Williams, Rock DJ, and on 96.2 it was Black Eyed Peas with Let's get it started. (more)

CN Group stations closedown
From Radio Today. Posted January 9 2006, 9.28am
Two CN Group radio stations closed down this morning at 9am after telling listeners to listen for an important annoncement. From Monday 16th January at 8am Kix 96.2fm in Coventry and The Bear 102 in Stratford-upon-Avon will both re-launch as Touch FM. (more)

Northeast applications now online
From Radio Today. Posted December 13 2005, 3.54pm
The thirteen applications submitted for the Northeast regional FM radio licence are now available on the Ofcom website. The applications show the proposals from all thirteen documents. In brief, they are: UK Media and TLRC application as 3 Rivers Radio, GCap Media's two applications as FUN fm and XFM, UTV's All Talk FM, Chrysalis' All Rock Radio The Arrow, Celador's Touch FM for the 45+ age group, CN-Group's Northlife providing non-biased speech and music programming, Canwest's Original FM which is similar to the recently won Solent licence, Saga's 50+ service, Tim Schoonmaker and Radio UK Holdings Diamond FM (rock music), North East One - offering a grown up station with pop, rock and oldies, and finally GMG radio apply using two proposals as Rock Talk FM and Smooth FM. (more)