Ministry of Sound Radio
Encyclopedia
A UK based radio station operating since 1999, it is now found on the Ministry of Sound website as streaming audio.
Current MoS radios DJs include X-Press 2, Hed Kandi
residents Des Paul and Andy Norman, Markus Schulz, Ross Allen, Stuart Patterson, Terry Farley, DJ Storm, Hospital Records, The Idjut Boys, The 2 Bears, Matt Darey
, Above and Beyond, Todd Edwards, and Mark Knight.
The current team is led by Steve O'Connor and syndicates radio shows around the globe as well as running the online stream and on-demand options. The station is based near the Ministry of Sound
at 103 Gaunt Street in south London.
At its height during the late 1990s, the dance party appeared on over 50 radio stations in 38 countries worldwide. The syndication of the show spurred Ministry manager James Bethel to turn the programme into a rolling audio stream which was available on the MoS website from 1998. Gradually older shows and mixes were added to the stream.
licence for a full-scale radio station. The service was included as part of an application by a consortium called Switch Digital which proposed eight other services (including Heart 106.2
, BBC London Live and Jazz FM. There were two other consortia bidding for the licence but Switch won the Greater London 2 (12A frequency) DAB licence from the then Radio Authority in 1999 to cover an area which included London and most of the Home Counties with ten transmitters ).
Bethel recruited the reports authors David Dunne
(formerly Head of Music at MTV UK
and Kiss 102
) and Mark Ovenden
(who had worked with Dunne at the same places and was also a former BBC Radio 1
producer). The small team of Sharp, Kingsley, Dunne and Ovenden began ripping thousands of dance tracks into the system, making a station identity and planning a full schedule. Another member of staff hired this year was Wendy Marr. Charlotte Coker joined later as did Alexander Bartelemy, John Askew, Drew Erskine, Brian Cheetham and Iam Fulton (temporary).
Ministry of Sound Radio began test transmissions from a single PC in Bethel's office during the summer of 2000 while a full studio was constructed opposite the MoS reception desk. The station was also simulcast on the web (where at one point it became the most listened to dance radio stream and eighth most listened to of any radio stream in the world (December 2001 ).
The station moved to live progamming when the studio was ready from 21 September 2000. The station was officially launched by Paul Oakenfold
with a live mix from inside the club itself. Despite the minuscule audience listening on digital radio at that point, London had 50 DAB stations , Dunne insisted on live DJ's being put on air daily from 1600hrs to 2000hrs with live broadcasts from inside the Ministry club every Sunday morning from 0200hrs-0600s.
The music policy was almost exclusively house
–trance
–hard house based as this style of music was primarily what the club was known for and R'n'B was already being well catered for on the broadcast band in London. (There was only one regular soul
/R'n'B programme: Bobby & Steve's 'Soul Heaven'). When no live programmes were on, the automated Maestro
system played out back to back music from the playlist or pre-recorded programes.
During July and August 2000, the station was broadcast live every night from a makeshift studio built into the Ministry's hotel in Ibiza
.
On 31 December 2000, Ministry held a New Years Eve party at the Millennium Dome
. The radio station ran a nine-hour live outside broadcast from the event, relaying the main dancefloor across London and to the world online.
Such a commitment to a DAB-only radio service was considered a major achievement in the industry and was honoured in 2002 when the station was awarded Gold as Digital Radio Station of the year at the InCar Magazine awards.
In 2001 the station also became the first UK DAB only station to generate income from a paid-for commercial.
. Switch won this licence and from June 2001 it was went live across Central Scotland with a launch party broadcast live from a club in Glasgow
. Though at first the rest of the programming was a direct feed of the London service and no local programming was made, there were plans to augment with local material at a later date.
Daily line-up was former Kiss 100
breakfast presenter Steve Jackson back on FM at breakfast, mid morning DJ Paulette, Lottie and Caroline at lunchtime, Jazzy M mid afternoon, former Kiss 100 presenters Janice Vee and Lorraine Ashdown at drive. Bobby & Steve got a nightly show at 2000hrs. Evenings and weekends were shared by shows or specially mixes by: David Morales
, Chicane
, Matt Darey
, Paul Oakenfold
, Paul Van Dyk
, Ferry Corsten
, Faithless
, The Orb
, Hybrid
, Way Out West, Yomanda, Mario Piu
, Lisa Lashes
, Mauro Picotto
, 4hero, Goldie
, Tom Stephan
, Graeme Park
, Tayo, Anne Savage
, Alan Thompson, Claude Challe
, Chris Coco
, Moonface, Corvin Dalek, Parks & Wilson, DJ Rap
, John Creamer, Da Intelex, Botchit & Scarper, Luke Hope, Smokin Jo, John Askew, Alex Bartelemy, Gareth Cooke, Anton Rocca, Lewis Dene, So Solid Crew
, Pied Piper, Ashley Cassselle and Stanton Warriors
with shows by labels Defected
, Strictly Rhythm
, Hooj Tunes, Incentive
, and Nukleuz
, and clubs like Trade
, Bedrock
, Pacha
, Space
, Bora Bora
, Renaissance
, Fabric
, DTPM, Hard Times
, The Gallery and Headstart. A line-up of dance music heavyweights never before seen in any one month on one radio station in the world and one reason why the station has been cited as launch pad for many new DJ's who've gone on to bigger things ,.
The RSL generated over £100,000 in advertising and sponsorship revenue - one of the highest achieved for an RSL.
The low powered signal was supposed to cover a small part of south and central London but although there were also some pirate stations operating in the city on the same frequency at the time, the MOSR signal was picked up by DXers
and there was one report phoned in from as far away as on the M1
near St Albans
. Posters and stickers for the station remained visible for many months afterwards including on a phone box in Paddington
two years after the service went off air.
The DAB service was closed in December 2002. The London frequency was taken over by Galaxy FM
April 2010: The live station stream is now available via the free iPhone app. Also one of the first radio stations available as an app for Apple's iPad.
Current MoS radios DJs include X-Press 2, Hed Kandi
Hed Kandi
Hed Kandi is an UK-based record label and a music brand which was established in 1999 by Mark Doyle, specialising in funky, soulful house music. Hed Kandi's catalogue includes both artist albums and various genres of club compilations. As well as producing music albums and compilations, Hed Kandi...
residents Des Paul and Andy Norman, Markus Schulz, Ross Allen, Stuart Patterson, Terry Farley, DJ Storm, Hospital Records, The Idjut Boys, The 2 Bears, Matt Darey
Matt Darey
Matthew Jonathan "Matt" Darey has been a trance music producer since 1994. He is also a member of Lost Tribe with Red Jerry. He is perhaps best known for his work in the Euphoria trance series and for 'Gamemaster' and his remixes of Agnelli & Nelson's "El Niño". In 2005, his first major U.S...
, Above and Beyond, Todd Edwards, and Mark Knight.
The current team is led by Steve O'Connor and syndicates radio shows around the globe as well as running the online stream and on-demand options. The station is based near the Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound London, commonly referred to as simply Ministry of Sound or MoS, is a nightclub based in London, United Kingdom and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010. As well as the nightclub in London, there is another in Egypt and...
at 103 Gaunt Street in south London.
History
The station can trace its history back to a one hour long syndicated radio progamme called the "Ministry of Sound Dance Party" which was produced in a tiny studio in the MOS offices using Protools from 1996 by Robert Sharp. He was joined by Gavin Kingsley from 1997 who also sourced DJ mixes which ended up as free CD's on the front of Ministry magazine.At its height during the late 1990s, the dance party appeared on over 50 radio stations in 38 countries worldwide. The syndication of the show spurred Ministry manager James Bethel to turn the programme into a rolling audio stream which was available on the MoS website from 1998. Gradually older shows and mixes were added to the stream.
Greater London DAB service
Following an independent report commissioned by Bethel on the future of MoS radio services, he led an application for a DABDigital radio
Digital radio has several meanings:1. Today the most common meaning is digital radio broadcasting technologies, such as the digital audio broadcasting system, also known as Eureka 147. In these systems, the analog audio signal is digitized into zeros and ones, compressed using formats such as...
licence for a full-scale radio station. The service was included as part of an application by a consortium called Switch Digital which proposed eight other services (including Heart 106.2
Heart 106.2
Heart 106.2 is an Independent Local Radio station based in London and is owned by Global Radio as part of the Heart Network.On 25 June 2007 it was announced that Heart along with its sister stations The Arrow, Sky News Radio, LBC and Galaxy were to be sold for £170 million to Global Radio from...
, BBC London Live and Jazz FM. There were two other consortia bidding for the licence but Switch won the Greater London 2 (12A frequency) DAB licence from the then Radio Authority in 1999 to cover an area which included London and most of the Home Counties with ten transmitters ).
Bethel recruited the reports authors David Dunne
David Dunne
David Dunne is a UK Club DJ, Radio presenter and former head of music at MTV.-Career:David Dunne's DJ career spans more than twenty years on Radio and as a club DJ...
(formerly Head of Music at MTV UK
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
and Kiss 102
Kiss 102
-History:The frequency was originally issued to Sunset 102 Radio - The Kickin FM but that suffered some financial problems. In May 1993, the Radio Authority made a decision to prematurely terminate Sunset's licence, apparently accusing the station of providing inaccurate information about its...
) and Mark Ovenden
Mark Ovenden
Mark Ovenden F.R.G.S. is a broadcaster and author who specialises in the subjects of graphic design, cartography and architecture in public transport, with an emphasis on underground rapid transit....
(who had worked with Dunne at the same places and was also a former BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
producer). The small team of Sharp, Kingsley, Dunne and Ovenden began ripping thousands of dance tracks into the system, making a station identity and planning a full schedule. Another member of staff hired this year was Wendy Marr. Charlotte Coker joined later as did Alexander Bartelemy, John Askew, Drew Erskine, Brian Cheetham and Iam Fulton (temporary).
Ministry of Sound Radio began test transmissions from a single PC in Bethel's office during the summer of 2000 while a full studio was constructed opposite the MoS reception desk. The station was also simulcast on the web (where at one point it became the most listened to dance radio stream and eighth most listened to of any radio stream in the world (December 2001 ).
The station moved to live progamming when the studio was ready from 21 September 2000. The station was officially launched by Paul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
with a live mix from inside the club itself. Despite the minuscule audience listening on digital radio at that point, London had 50 DAB stations , Dunne insisted on live DJ's being put on air daily from 1600hrs to 2000hrs with live broadcasts from inside the Ministry club every Sunday morning from 0200hrs-0600s.
The music policy was almost exclusively house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
–trance
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
–hard house based as this style of music was primarily what the club was known for and R'n'B was already being well catered for on the broadcast band in London. (There was only one regular soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
/R'n'B programme: Bobby & Steve's 'Soul Heaven'). When no live programmes were on, the automated Maestro
Maestro
Maestro is a title of extreme respect given to a master musician. The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera. This is associated with the ubiquitous use of Italian vocabulary for classical music terms...
system played out back to back music from the playlist or pre-recorded programes.
During July and August 2000, the station was broadcast live every night from a makeshift studio built into the Ministry's hotel in Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
.
On 31 December 2000, Ministry held a New Years Eve party at the Millennium Dome
Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome, colloquially referred to simply as The Dome or even The O2 Arena, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building, originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium...
. The radio station ran a nine-hour live outside broadcast from the event, relaying the main dancefloor across London and to the world online.
Such a commitment to a DAB-only radio service was considered a major achievement in the industry and was honoured in 2002 when the station was awarded Gold as Digital Radio Station of the year at the InCar Magazine awards.
In 2001 the station also became the first UK DAB only station to generate income from a paid-for commercial.
Central Scotland DAB service
The success of the first feed led Switch Digital to add Ministry of Sound Radio to its application for the next DAB service in Central ScotlandCentral Belt
The Central Belt of Scotland is a common term used to describe the area of highest population density within Scotland. Despite the name, it is not geographically central but is nevertheless situated at the 'waist' of Scotland on a conventional map and the term 'central' is used in many local...
. Switch won this licence and from June 2001 it was went live across Central Scotland with a launch party broadcast live from a club in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
. Though at first the rest of the programming was a direct feed of the London service and no local programming was made, there were plans to augment with local material at a later date.
Central London RSL
Dunne and Ovenden led an application for a temporary Restricted Service Licence on the FM band in Central London. The Radio Authority awarded this in early 2001. The station went on air 1 October 2001 for a 28 day period on 87.7mhz in a roughly 3 miles radius of the club at Elephant and Castle. The line-up of programming was unprecedented for a RSL and included virtually every major name in dance music at that time:Daily line-up was former Kiss 100
Kiss 100 London
Kiss is a UK radio station broadcasting on FM and Digital Radio, specialising in hip hop, R&B, urban and electronic dance music. It also broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and TalkTalk TV...
breakfast presenter Steve Jackson back on FM at breakfast, mid morning DJ Paulette, Lottie and Caroline at lunchtime, Jazzy M mid afternoon, former Kiss 100 presenters Janice Vee and Lorraine Ashdown at drive. Bobby & Steve got a nightly show at 2000hrs. Evenings and weekends were shared by shows or specially mixes by: David Morales
David Morales
David Morales is an internationally acclaimed Grammy-winning house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks...
, Chicane
Chicane
A chicane is an artificial feature creating extra turns in a road, used in motor racing and on city streets to slow cars to lower speeds.- Motor Racing :...
, Matt Darey
Matt Darey
Matthew Jonathan "Matt" Darey has been a trance music producer since 1994. He is also a member of Lost Tribe with Red Jerry. He is perhaps best known for his work in the Euphoria trance series and for 'Gamemaster' and his remixes of Agnelli & Nelson's "El Niño". In 2005, his first major U.S...
, Paul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
, Paul Van Dyk
Paul van Dyk
Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer...
, Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten, also known under the alias System F, is a Dutch producer of trance music, in addition to being a DJ and remixer. He also hosts his own weekly radio show, Corsten's Countdown. He routinely plays at events all over the world with crowds in excess of tens of thousands. In 2009 Ferry...
, Faithless
Faithless
Faithless were a British electronica band consisting of Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo. The group is best known for their dance songs . Faithless recorded six albums. During their career they sold over 15 million records worldwide...
, The Orb
The Orb
Throughout 1989, the Orb, along with Martin Glover, developed the musical genre of ambient house through the use of a diverse array of samples and recordings. The culmination of its musical work came toward the end of the year when the group recorded a session for John Peel on BBC Radio 1...
, Hybrid
Hybrid (producers)
Hybrid are a British electronic music group based in Swansea, comprising Mike Truman and Chris Healings, with the addition of Charlotte James completing their 2010 lineup. They are primarily known as a progressive breaks act, although they overlap considerably with progressive house and trance...
, Way Out West, Yomanda, Mario Piu
Mario Più
Mario Più is a professional disc jockey from Livorno, Italy.His 1999 single, "Communication", also known as "The Communication Song", is notable for being mainly constructed from the interference caused on improperly shielded audio equipment when a GSM mobile telephone rings...
, Lisa Lashes
Lisa Lashes
Lisa Lashes , is a British electronic dance music DJ and music producer best known for her career as a leading female dj, mixing numerous Euphoria albums, her popular Lashed dance music events and being the first and only female to be considered among the top ten DJs in the world by DJ MagazineShe...
, Mauro Picotto
Mauro Picotto
Mauro Picotto is an Italian electronic music musician. Previously a member of the Italian rave outfit, Cappella. He became well-known as a solo artist with techno-trance tracks including "Komodo" , "Pulsar" and most famously for "Lizard"...
, 4hero, Goldie
Goldie
Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor. He is well known for his innovations in the jungle and drum and bass music genres, having previously gained exposure for his work as a graffiti artist...
, Tom Stephan
Tom Stephan
Tom Stephan is a house music producer and DJ.-Biography:Tom Stephan was raised in the western New York town of Olean but moved to London to go to college. It was in London that he started his DJ career, opening up for Danny Tenaglia and eventually hosting regular house nights at the Turnmills club...
, Graeme Park
Graeme Park
Graeme Park is an historic site in Horsham, Montgomery County. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and operated by the non-profit group, The Friends of Graeme Park. It is the only surviving residence of a colonial-era Pennsylvania governor...
, Tayo, Anne Savage
Anne Savage (DJ)
Anne Savage is a UK hard dance DJ.-Early life:Savage was born in Burnley, Lancashire and raised in the Ribble Valley. She attended, the private Westholme School. She took classical guitar lessons at an early age. In the late 1980s she played guitar in a punk band called 53rd State.-Career:Savage...
, Alan Thompson, Claude Challe
Claude Challe
Claude Challe is a French DJ and club owner, the creator of the Buddha Bar restaurant/clubs and music compilations.Challe moved to France at age three. He attended Rabbinical school as a young man...
, Chris Coco
Chris Coco
Chris Coco is a club/radio DJ, producer and music critic.As a club DJ, he is perhaps best known as the resident, at the hugely popular Coco Club. This underground Saturday night house music event ran from 1989 to 1994, at The Zap Club in Brighton.He is also now also playing full time in...
, Moonface, Corvin Dalek, Parks & Wilson, DJ Rap
DJ Rap
Charissa Saverio is a British drum and bass, house music and progressive electronic music disc jockey.-Biography:...
, John Creamer, Da Intelex, Botchit & Scarper, Luke Hope, Smokin Jo, John Askew, Alex Bartelemy, Gareth Cooke, Anton Rocca, Lewis Dene, So Solid Crew
So Solid Crew
So Solid Crew is an electronic and urban musical collective from South London, England, whose hits include "Oh No " and "21 Seconds", the latter reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 2001. Another hit, "They Don't Know", reached number three in November 2001 and "Haters" got to...
, Pied Piper, Ashley Cassselle and Stanton Warriors
Stanton Warriors
Stanton Warriors are the breakbeat duo Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley. They are a DJ and producer team. Originally from the West Country, the pair now play sets at nightclubs such as Fabric and Ciros in the UK, and travel the globe with international work in Europe, Canada, America and Australia...
with shows by labels Defected
Defected Records
- History :Established in 1999 by former AM:PM and Cooltempo A&R man Simon Dunmore, Defected's first release was Soulsearcher's "I Can't Get Enough" which reached No.5 in the UK singles chart. This early success was followed up with Roger Sanchez's "Another Chance", which hit No.1 in the UK singles...
, Strictly Rhythm
Strictly Rhythm
Strictly Rhythm is an American record label, best known for its highly regarded house-music catalogue. It is considered by many to be one of the genre's most important and influential labels.-History:Strictly Rhythm Records is house music...
, Hooj Tunes, Incentive
Incentive
In economics and sociology, an incentive is any factor that enables or motivates a particular course of action, or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternatives. It is an expectation that encourages people to behave in a certain way...
, and Nukleuz
Nukleuz
Nukleuz is a dance record label based in the Clapham area of London, UK. Nukleuz is the home to many artists and compilation series in various genres including trance, UK hardcore, tech house and hard house....
, and clubs like Trade
Trade
Trade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and...
, Bedrock
Bedrock
In stratigraphy, bedrock is the native consolidated rock underlying the surface of a terrestrial planet, usually the Earth. Above the bedrock is usually an area of broken and weathered unconsolidated rock in the basal subsoil...
, Pacha
Pacha
Pacha is a nightclub franchise with headquarters in Ibiza, Spain. The first Pacha club was opened in Sitges outside Barcelona in 1967. The Ibiza club, located in Ibiza Town, is the best known venue today. During 2009 Pacha acquired El Divino, near the marina of Ibiza la Nueva, which will be...
, Space
Space
Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum...
, Bora Bora
Bora Bora
The commune of Bora-Bora is made up of the island of Bora Bora proper with its surrounding islets emerging from the coral reef, 29.3 km² in total, and of the atoll of Tupai , located north of Bora Bora...
, Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
, Fabric
Fabric
A fabric is a textile material, short for "textile fabric".Fabric may also refer to:*Fabric , the spatial and geometric configuration of elements within a rock*Fabric , a nightclub in London, England...
, DTPM, Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times - For These Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times....
, The Gallery and Headstart. A line-up of dance music heavyweights never before seen in any one month on one radio station in the world and one reason why the station has been cited as launch pad for many new DJ's who've gone on to bigger things ,.
The RSL generated over £100,000 in advertising and sponsorship revenue - one of the highest achieved for an RSL.
The low powered signal was supposed to cover a small part of south and central London but although there were also some pirate stations operating in the city on the same frequency at the time, the MOSR signal was picked up by DXers
DXing
DXing is the hobby of tuning in and identifying distant radio or television signals, or making two way radio contact with distant stations in amateur radio, citizens' band radio or other two way radio communications. Many DXers also attempt to receive written verifications of reception from the...
and there was one report phoned in from as far away as on the M1
M1 motorway
The M1 is a north–south motorway in England primarily connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1 near Aberford. While the M1 is considered to be the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the United Kingdom, the first road to be built to motorway standard in the country was the...
near St Albans
St Albans
St Albans is a city in southern Hertfordshire, England, around north of central London, which forms the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans. It is a historic market town, and is now a sought-after dormitory town within the London commuter belt...
. Posters and stickers for the station remained visible for many months afterwards including on a phone box in Paddington
Paddington
Paddington is a district within the City of Westminster, in central London, England. Formerly a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965...
two years after the service went off air.
Changes
In a peculiar turn of events, 40 MoS staff were made redundant during October 2001 while the RSL was still on air including several of the leading people who had put the RSL package together ex: Ryan Diedericks (Ryan D).The DAB service was closed in December 2002. The London frequency was taken over by Galaxy FM
Sky Digital
In 2005 Ministry of Sound Radio under the then Head of Radio Robert Sharp made a short-lived appearance on the Sky Digital platform (Channel 0198).Hardware
There have been at least two pieces of audio hardware produced with the MoS branding which have been capable of receiving DAB audio broadcasts (despite the station coming off DAB in 2002) ,.Recent progress
From March 2007 the station expanded further launching two on-demand channels offering non-stop chill out and underground sessions. It also launched a gadget for Vista, described as the most advanced Vista gadget in the world .April 2010: The live station stream is now available via the free iPhone app. Also one of the first radio stations available as an app for Apple's iPad.