Can't help being reminded of Radio Active: "Your local, national radio station!" Thank God there are still some independents out there.

They’re doing it here in Yorkshire with Pulse 1, Hallam FM and Viking FM too

Such a pity. The ongoing homogenisation of local broadcasting continues. We lost regional TV broadcasting such as Granada, Anglia, Thames etc and now the former ILR stations are no more. With the continued attacks on the BBC, how much longer will we have professional local broadcasting for? I look at such as Germany - their local/regional broadcasters (TV & radio) thrive. It appears it’s all down to one thing here: profit before people.

@Gannett2011

3 ай бұрын

Yep, that's what deregulation was all about, money. I remember they touted it as more choice for the listener, but really it was just enabling mega media corps to gobble up the tiddlers and offer us bland fare.

Sad to see the final demise of local commercial radio; Radio City, Piccadilly / Key 103, Red Rose Radio / Rock FM, Radio Wave, The Bay, Signal, Marcher Sound / MFM, 2BR, The Bee, Chorley FM "Coming in Your Ears" and Forever FM and their adverts for Lancashire Skips ;-)

@dvidclapperton

3 ай бұрын

You will still be getting the ads for Lancashire Ships on the now ex Forever FM. But the loss of local output apart from local breakfast and/or drivetime for now, the local news and local weather during daytime hours, local sport, local travel during breakfast aand drivetime and locsl ads it has been a devastating loss of the vast majority of localness for many loyal listeners of their original ilr stations.

Not just a aimple rebrand. But a total change of schedule and the schedule is now dominated by DJ's with accents were born in other parts of the UK. Even if a local born DJ is on the station he's/she's coming from a studio 50 to 400 miles away and heard nationally all over the UK. Unless the studio is local just down the road but he's/she's still heard UK wide rsther than just to the original ilr area where the studio is based. Excluding breakfast and/or Drivetime (the only local show(s) that still exist for now anyway) yes you used to hear DJ's born in other parts of the UK on your old ilr station broadcastibg only in your local area in the good old days, but it was only the odd DJ (not all but 1 per the now UK national commercial stations) and they came to the studio of your old ilr to do their work and only heard locally in your area, not nationally. It's total disgrace whwt had gome on and now Wave 105 has gone. Yes of course it was coming this replacement GHR but it's still devastating for the loyal Wave 105 listeners in the south coast of England who have lost almost all of their localness now.

It's happening.... "This is Britain's first national local radio station, Radio Active".

Death by a thousand cuts, that's local radio in the UK. Consolidation since the 90s has killed any character these stations had. I well remember when Radio Wyvern and Severn Sound became part of GWR Group in 1997: you tuned from one the other and heard the same song playing, only the adverts and news were different. That's when I realised local radio was in decline. It's a shame community radio didn't take off. Local programming, local interest, people you know, but I guess that costs too much money to administer and it eats into the big media companies' profits. Makes you want to just set up a pirate station and sidestep the whole bloody business!

@jayrogers8255

3 ай бұрын

We’ve had a similar downward trajectory here in the States too.

@dvidclapperton

3 ай бұрын

Consolidation has proven to be a terrible thing for ilr station listeners.

It's happened to us in my region. West mids, We lost the likes of Mercia, brmb, & beacon radio. I don't bother listening to hits radio. It's awful.

We are listening to our independent and won't be listening to hits