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Ofcom Awards Four New Community Radio Licences

Ofcom today announces the award of four new community radio licences.

Community radio services typically cover a small geographical area and are provided on a not-for-profit basis focusing on the delivery of specific social benefits to enrich a particular geographical community or a community of interest.

Ofcom has awarded community radio licences to the following applicants:

• Amber Sound FM (Ripley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire)
• Erewash Sound (llkeston, Derbyshire)
• Tulip Radio (Spalding, South Holland , Lincolnshire )
• Takeover Radio (Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire)

Details of these new community radio licensees are as follows:

Amber Sound FM
Contact: Chris Smelt
Contact Address. 21 Hill Street, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3LZ
Phone Number: 07970 358946
E-mail address: chris@ambersoundfm.com
Web-site: www.ambersoundfm.com

Amber Sound FM will be a radio service dedicated solely to the Amber Valley in the heart of Derbyshire. Its main goal is to be a focal point of community spirit and feeling, giving the people a station that they can call their own. It will become a reliable source for community information, interests, issues and topics that directly affect people day-to-day in all corners of the area.

Erewash Sound
Contact: Jeff Martin
Erewash Sound, PO Box 1060 , Derby , DE72 3ZY
Phone Number: 07722 849314 / 07833 101642
E-mail: jeff.martin@erewashsound.co.uk
Web-site: www.erewashsound.co.uk

Erewash Sound will be presented and produced by local people. It will offer a dedicated community-orientated, comprehensive, relevant and essential service playing an active part in local life, tackling issues which directly affect those living locally.

Takeover Radio
Contact: Graham Coley
Sutton Centre Enterprise Arts Centre, High Pavement, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 1EE
Phone Number: 0870 121 2567 / 07958 650 316
E-mail address: grahamcoley@yahoo.co.uk

Takeover Radio will entertain with a mix of popular music blended with exciting and refreshing speech, and interactive educational programme making. It will be a truly young people’s radio station with distinctive appeal, characterised by the unique involvement of the young people it will serve, producing programming with energy, enthusiasm and originality.

Tulip Radio
Contact: Chris Carter
37D New Road, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 1DW.
Phone Number: 01775 712400 / 07836-522229
E-mail: admin@tulip-radio.co.uk
Web-site: www.tulip-radio.co.uk/

Tulip Radio will serve those living and working within Spalding and surrounding areas of South Holland , Lincolnshire . The station will act as a unifying voice across this sparsely populated area and will be accessible to all sections of the local community. It will keep local people up-to-date with events and matters of local concern, providing them with opportunities to become involved in both the operation and the management of the service.

Licences are awarded for a five-year period.

A statement setting out the main determining factors for the award of the four community radio licences referred to above will be available shortly from the Ofcom website.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

1. In addition to the licence awards detailed above, Ofcom considered one further application, from South Holland Radio in Whaplode, Lincolnshire , but decided not to award a licence to this group.

2. Applications for community radio licences are being invited on a region-by-region basis. Further details can be found on the Ofcom website at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/

3. Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services.

For further details please visit www.ofcom.org.uk.

CONTACT

Ofcom Media Office
mediaoffice@ofcom.org.uk
(+44) (0)20 7981 3033

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