11-06-2024, 12:15 AM
Another community station - this one in Swansea - is attempting to go down the BRMB route of sorts.
Radio Tircoed, very much the definition of small-town radio (it serves a few villages in the Swansea Valley) is rebranding and relaunching in September as 'Swansea Live Radio' and bringing in 12 former presenters from Swansea Sound and The Wave.
Tircoed's studios are being retained - as apparently are some of the presenters (though by the sounds of it, they'll be mostly doing the specialist output)
www.swansealiveradio.co.uk
As grand as their plans sound, one can't help but feel that a potential hyper-local service will be lost in favour of yet another attempt at reviving 'glory day' ILR radio.
Hampering them further still is they'll be on an FM licence which barely covers the Swansea Valley, let alone the city - and their ambition of getting onto small-scale DAB might be a while off yet, too.
The multiplex was awarded, then it was revoked because they couldn't go live within 18 months and only recently, has it been readvertised.
Add to that you've got Nation on their umpteenth attempt to make their Swansea FM licence work with yet another Swansea Bay Radio revival (featuring a couple of ex-SS/Wave presenters)
Radio Tircoed, very much the definition of small-town radio (it serves a few villages in the Swansea Valley) is rebranding and relaunching in September as 'Swansea Live Radio' and bringing in 12 former presenters from Swansea Sound and The Wave.
Tircoed's studios are being retained - as apparently are some of the presenters (though by the sounds of it, they'll be mostly doing the specialist output)
www.swansealiveradio.co.uk
As grand as their plans sound, one can't help but feel that a potential hyper-local service will be lost in favour of yet another attempt at reviving 'glory day' ILR radio.
Hampering them further still is they'll be on an FM licence which barely covers the Swansea Valley, let alone the city - and their ambition of getting onto small-scale DAB might be a while off yet, too.
The multiplex was awarded, then it was revoked because they couldn't go live within 18 months and only recently, has it been readvertised.
Add to that you've got Nation on their umpteenth attempt to make their Swansea FM licence work with yet another Swansea Bay Radio revival (featuring a couple of ex-SS/Wave presenters)