Year: 2024

The Swanage Pier Trust is to close Dorset community radio station Purbeck Coast FM due to a lack of funding and practical pressures. The Trust says the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis had a huge effect on the station’s day-to-day operating costs, as well as its inability to secure sponsorship from local businesses. Swanage Pier […] […]

BBC Radio Cymru 2 is to become a fully-fledged public service radio station following a consultation by Ofcom. The move means more original Welsh-language hours will be broadcast on the station. Under the BBC Framework Agreement, the introduction of a new UK Public Service is a material change and therefore subject to a competition assessment […] […]

PRS for Music has been certified as a Top Employer 2024 by the Top Employer Institute. The certification recognises a company’s dedication to a better world of work which it exhibits through its HR practices. PRS for Music is one of just 2,300 employers across 121 countries to have been recognised. The accreditation has been […] […]

The volunteer broadcasters of York Hospital Radio will be celebrating the radio station’s 60th anniversary on Friday, 26 January. A special day of live shows, together with two civic visits, will mark 60 years to the day since the very first show was broadcast to listeners in York’s hospitals in 1964. To celebrate the 60th […] […]