Huntingdon Community Radio
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Huntingdon Community Radio is radio station
operating from studios in Huntingdonshire
, Cambridgeshire
, England
. It was awarded a broadcast licence by OfCom
in 2009 and is due to start transmitting full time from Spring 2011.
Founded by Bill Hensley in 1995, the station will launch with a new line up and local news team.
History of HCRfm
Huntingdon has had a community radio station on air for three weeks every year since Bill Hensley and a small band of enthusiasts established it 1995.
Known today as Huntingdon Community Radio (HCRfm), the station put out a mix of familiar music, with national and local news and special programmes about community life in Huntingdon and the surrounding towns and villages. Using space provided at initially St Neot’s Community College and later RAF Wyton, a team of 30 volunteers, came together for each two and, at times, four week broadcasts annually. HCRfm established a keen and loyal audience and as a station decided to adapt and bring full-time community radio to Huntingdonshire.
A full-time station for Huntingdon, developed and managed by local people, only became a reality in 2008 when OfCom
the broadcasting regulator announced one of, if not the last batch of community radio licences, indicating that some would be approved in East Anglia. Much hard work produced an application for a full-time licence, following research and consulting with and seeking the support of hundreds of community organisations. All this paid off in the summer of 2009 when Ofcom granted HCR a full-time FM licence.
The station will have national news each hour from SKY and local news in association with The Hunts Post each weekday from 7am until 7pm. The station is funded through a mix of grants, advertising and sponsorship.
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
operating from studios in Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire is a local government district of Cambridgeshire, covering the area around Huntingdon. Traditionally it is a county in its own right...
, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was awarded a broadcast licence by OfCom
Ofcom
Ofcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003...
in 2009 and is due to start transmitting full time from Spring 2011.
Founded by Bill Hensley in 1995, the station will launch with a new line up and local news team.
History of HCRfm
Huntingdon has had a community radio station on air for three weeks every year since Bill Hensley and a small band of enthusiasts established it 1995.
Known today as Huntingdon Community Radio (HCRfm), the station put out a mix of familiar music, with national and local news and special programmes about community life in Huntingdon and the surrounding towns and villages. Using space provided at initially St Neot’s Community College and later RAF Wyton, a team of 30 volunteers, came together for each two and, at times, four week broadcasts annually. HCRfm established a keen and loyal audience and as a station decided to adapt and bring full-time community radio to Huntingdonshire.
A full-time station for Huntingdon, developed and managed by local people, only became a reality in 2008 when OfCom
Ofcom
Ofcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003...
the broadcasting regulator announced one of, if not the last batch of community radio licences, indicating that some would be approved in East Anglia. Much hard work produced an application for a full-time licence, following research and consulting with and seeking the support of hundreds of community organisations. All this paid off in the summer of 2009 when Ofcom granted HCR a full-time FM licence.
The station will have national news each hour from SKY and local news in association with The Hunts Post each weekday from 7am until 7pm. The station is funded through a mix of grants, advertising and sponsorship.