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Hallam FM

Hallam FM is part of Emap's Big City Network of radio stations. The station broadcasts to South Yorkshire from studios at Radio House, Herries Road in Sheffield.

Current presenters include John Harrison, Kam Kelly, Matt Jagger (Phoneboy), Ollie Hayes, Michelle Dignan, and Dave Henning.

Outside of the Hallam FM Arena

In November 2002, the station announced a deal with Sheffield Arena, which resulted in the venue being renamed as the 'Hallam FM Arena'.

Hallam FM takes Hit 40 UK on Sunday afternoons presented by former Hallam FM Presenter Lucio

Daryl Denham became the host of the 9am - 1pm weekday slot in January 2006, after returning to the station on June 18th 2005 with a successful weekend show. Daryl was the breakfast show presenter in the late 90's, before current jock John Harrison. Daryl Left in 2007 and is now at Real Radio Yorkshire

Weekends feature Feel Good Friday, Floorfillers, and an extension to the weekday breakfast show 'The Church Of Big John' featuring the best bits from the week.

Help a Hallam Child is the station's charity, helping the areas youngsters.

History

An old Hallam FM logo

The station launched on 1st October 1974 as Radio Hallam on 194m (1548khz AM), 95.2 and 95.9 MhZ FM - with the first voice on air being ex Radio 1 jock,Johnny Moran.The launch was not without incident though - the first record,"I've Got The Music In Me" by Kiki Dee,stuck after a minute and an half,and later on in the same morning,a window in a studio broke after arc lights used to cover the event by Yorkshire Television caused glass to crack.The frequencies were changed in the 80's to include changes to the station's TSA,becoming 97.4 for Sheffield,102.9 for Barnsley and 103.4 for the rest of South Yorkshire,and 194m becoming 1548AM - a frequency allotted to Classic Gold after the Broadcasting Act 1990 and now part of the Magic AM network.

A further transmitter, Rotherham's 96.1, was switched off in the late 1990s as a condition of Hallam's renewal of franchise. The transmitter was switched off by the then programme director, Dave Shearer with additional power being increased to the 102.9 and 103.4 frequencies to cover the loss.

Hallam used to be based at Hartshead,in Sheffield City Centre.It moved in the mid 1990s to its current home at 900 Herries Road, just minutes from Hillsborough (the home of Sheffield Wednesday FC).Both office and studio space at Hartshead is now used by journalists who create the local newspaper,the Sheffield Star.

Previous presenters on Hallam FM have included Dave Kilner, Scottie McClue, Simon Hirst, Emma Scott, Jeff Cooper, Lucio, Dave Bethall,Daryl Denham, Matt Mackay, Ricki Lee Tim Shaw, Howard Pressman, Anthony Gay, Diana Luke, James H.Reeve,Nik Martin, Peter Grant, Nick Margerrison, Matt Foister Tom Binns, James Piekos, James Andrews and Gav Richards.

Previous Radio Hallam presenters include Johnny Moran,Bill Crozier,Keith Skues,Roger Moffatt,Ralph Bernard (current head of GCAP Media),Stuart Linnell,Alan Biggs,Alan West,Ray Stuart,Kelly Temple,Bill McDonald,Martin Kelner,Jean Doyle,Bev Chubb,Gerry Kersey,Jim Greensmith,Dean Pepall,and Tony Jasper..