Cross Rhythms City Radio is a UK community radio

Community radio in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, Community Radio refers to a system of licensing small, micro-local, non-profit radio stations, which started in 2002. In its early days, the pilot scheme was known as Access Radio.-History:...

 station broadcasting to
Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...

 and Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal town of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It is part of The Potteries Urban Area and North Staffordshire. In the 2001 census the town had a population of 73,944...

, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

. The station was one of the original 15 to be granted pilot licences for a new form of local radio, then known as Access Radio. Following several extensions of the pilot scheme (now renamed Community Radio

Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

), a full five-year licence was granted in June 2005. Cross Rhythms City Radio was the first FM Christian station in the UK to be granted a full licence.

Presenters (past and present)

Jonathan Bellamy

Chris Cole

Rachel Cutts

Sarah Duffy

Alex Figgis

Deanna Fletcher - Breakfast Show, 2004

Mike Francis

Jenny Hutchinson

Jenny Barker

Jenny Barker was the drive time presenter on Cross Rhythms City Radio in Stoke-on-Trent in 2005. She now presents the weekday late night show between 10pm and midnight. She married in 2007, is now called Jenny Hutchinson and had her first child in 2009.-External links:*...

Chris Mountford

Steve Perry

Jason Ramsey

Bernard Reilly

Mike Rimmer

Greg Sammons

Greg Sammons (broadcaster)

Greg Sammons presents traffic and travel for talkSPORT, a national DAB/AM radio station. He also does the travel for a number of stations in the Midlands including BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Stoke and BBC WM....

Anthony Trivino

External links

• Official page