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

Essex FM Breakfast Host Presents Underwater
From Merry Media. Posted December 11 2007, 4.27pm
Essex FM breakfast presenter Martin Day has completed the challenge set by co-host Su Harrison to broadcast underwater for the longest time. . (more)

New breakfast show for Ten-17FM
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted August 30 2007, 11.06am
Essex FM late-night presenter Wyatt van Wendels has been hired as the new voice of the breakfast show on GCap Essex stablemate, Ten-17FM in Harlow. Wyatt, who has presented a localised version of Late Night Love on Essex FM since 2005, has signed a two-year deal to front the Monday to Friday 6am-10am slot on the [...] (more)

Essex FM TV show returns
From Radio Today. Posted August 13 2007, 9.05am
Ten years after the TV docu-soap Lakesiders, the BBC has reunited Essex FM breakfast show DJ Martin Day with his old boss Paul Chantler, RadioToday.co.uk can reveal. Martin and Paul were two of the characters featured in the fly-on-the-wall series when it was originally shown on BBC 1 in 1997. (more)

Wessex listener spots mistake
From Radio Today. Posted April 23 2007, 6.37am
A Wessex FM listener recently informed the station news team about a mistake broadcast by Challenge TV, which ultimately led to the television company paying out £31,000 to charity. Dorset listener Adrian Strong tipped off the TLRC station, who contacted the show. (more)

April Fool Jokes on radio
From Radio Today. Posted April 2 2007, 12.02am
Local radio stations across the UK took the opportunity to fool listeners into an April Fool joke or two yesterday. One of them was TLRC station Wessex FM which told listeners an Olympic mini-dome was to be built on Weymouth beach as part of the redevelopment plan for the area. (more)

Ultimate radio review of 2006
From Radio Today. Posted January 1 2007, 12.00am
The big 'consolidation' of the radio industry had its pause button pressed after the big mergers of 2005. Emap and SRH stations were coming together, GCap Media sold a couple of stations and lost a few managers, UTV and SMG started talking seriously, and GMG wrote a couple of big cheques for quite a few regional radio stations.It was the year of the podcast. Podcasts were launched by The Radio Academy, Manchester Utd and Big Brother!Sally Oldham said hello and goodbye at TLRC, Michelle McManus said hello and goodbye to Clyde 1, Chris Moyles said "hello Ma'am" to The Queen, Essex FM said goodbye then hello to James Blunt, and UKRD said a final goodbye to Stroud.2006 was also a sad year for radio as we lost a number of great radio people including Alan Freeman, Nick Clarke and Mike Dickin.Join us as we go month by month through the world of UK radio during 2006, and bring you a few interesting and exclusive predictions for 2007. (more)

Regional TLRC boss joins Tindle
From Radio Today. Posted September 8 2006, 6.45am
The Regional Managing Director for TLRC in the South John Baker, and Wessex FM Marketing and Promotions Manager Joss Baker are both joining Tindle Radio South in similar roles. John will join the group as Regional Managing Director, which includes overseeing operations at Kestrel FM in Basingstoke, Kick FM in Newbury, Delta Radio in East Hampshire and Win FM in Winchester. Both John and Jeff join the group in October and will be tasked with launching the radio station for Andover next year – a new licence awarded to Tindle Radio in July. (more)

UK radio station bans James Blunt songs
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 29 2006, 2.13pm
A UK radio station said today it has banned songs by British crooner James Blunt from its airwaves after listeners said they were fed up with hearing "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover". Chris Cotton, programme controller of local radio Essex FM in southern England, said: "We don't have anything against James Blunt and we're pleased he has been so successful, but we really need a (more)

Essex FM bans James Blunt
From Radio Today. Posted May 29 2006, 12.15pm
Essex FM has reacted to James Blunt's suggestion that anyone who doesn't like his music being played on the radio should simply switch it off. The station has announced that from today listeners will no longer hear 'You're Beautiful' and 'Goodbye My Lover'. Programme Controller Chris Cotton: "Quite often there will be popular artists that people are starting to grow weary of. This time, the number of specific comments about James Blunt were more than we have ever seen for one particular artist. The amount of feedback is enormous, so it looks like there'll be a pretty long-term ban. This does tend to happen when artists reach a certain level of popularity, when it becomes wall-to-wall coverage." (more)

Southend licence award explained
From Radio Today. Posted April 24 2006, 11.15am
Ofcom have today published details of the reason why the recent licence award in Southend was won by Southend Radio. The RLC felt that the combined backing of Stockvale Limited and Provincial Radio Limited gives Southend Radio a strong degree of financial stability, and appropriate experience of operating small stations in similar markets nearby. The involvement of Provincial Radio Limited (which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tindle Radio) would give Southend Radio the opportunity to offer a combined advertising sell, which would be likely to place the new service in a much stronger financial position in relation to the heritage station Essex FM than might otherwise be the case. (more)