NME Radio
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NME Radio is the radio station from NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

magazine, that broadcasts in a new commercially oriented alternative music format. It first began broadcasting on 24 June 2008.

History

After approach by DX Media, IPC Media agreed a contract to allow DX to launch a radio station under the NME brand.

NME Radio was created to 'fill the void' that was created after XFM London
Xfm London
Xfm London is a commercial radio station in the United Kingdom owned by Global Radio and broadcasts on 104.9 FM in London, on digital radio via 30 DAB multiplexes across the country, Sky, TalkTalk TV and Virgin Media....

 was bought out by Capital Radio
Capital Radio
Capital London is a London based radio station which launched on 16 October 1973 and is owned by Global Radio. On 3 January 2011 it formed part of the nine station Capital radio network.- Pre-launch :...

, when some believe it turned into a second version of Virgin Radio in 1998. The station's co-founder and Managing Director was the creator of XFM
Xfm
Xfm is a brand of two commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio.-History:Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob, who later co-founded NME Radio in 2008. Xfm subsequently expanded to a network of four stations; there are...

, Sammy Jacob.

Operated from studios in the Blue Fin Building on London's South Bank, also home to IPC Media, NME Radio was launched on 24 June 2008 with its first played song being "Knights of Cydonia
Knights of Cydonia
"Knights of Cydonia" is a song by English alternative rock band Muse and is the closing track on the British release of their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations. The song's title comes in part from the region of Mars named Cydonia, famous for the "face on mars"...

" by British rock band Muse
Muse (band)
Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard...

.

On Friday 11 June 2010 it was announced on the Guardian news website that NME Radio was to cease broadcasting on DAB digital radio, Sky, Virgin Media
Virgin Media
Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...

 and Freesat
Freesat
Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc, serving the United Kingdom. The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008...

 TV networks, and would revert to an online only "Jukebox
Jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media...

" format - no DJs or adverts, after DX Media has terminated the agreement to produce digital radio station. NME Radio was removed from Freesat on 16 June and Virgin Media on 1 July 2010 but remained on Sky.

On 21 July 2010, IPC Media signed a deal with local radio group Town and Country Broadcasting
Town and Country Broadcasting
Town and Country Broadcasting Limited is a media company registered in Wales. It currently owns and operates seven radio stations across Wales...

. NME Radio relaunched in September and returned to some regional digital audio broadcasting (DAB) multiplexes. It also returned to Freesat between 1 December 2010 and 30 June 2011, as well as having an iPhone app launched. A return to national DAB platform Digital One may also follow. NME Radio is dually sited at IPC Media's London HQ and Town and Country Broadcasting's station in south Wales, Nation Radio
Nation Radio
Nation Radio launched on 16 June 2008 as a regional radio station broadcasting to the South Wales area from Neath.Nation Radio took over the Ofcom broadcasting licence held by Xfm South Wales when GCap Media sold the station to Town and Country Broadcasting for an unspecified fee on 30 May 2008....

.

Programming

NME Radio formerly featured 16 hours of live broadcasting from IPC Media's London HQ. Following the take over by Town and Country Broadcasting
Town and Country Broadcasting
Town and Country Broadcasting Limited is a media company registered in Wales. It currently owns and operates seven radio stations across Wales...

all DJs were dropped only retaining a voice tracked evening show.

Availability

  • Sky EPG – Channel 0184
  • Online
  • DAB Radio – Cardiff & Newport Multiplex, Berkshire & North Hampshire Multiplex.


Surrey & North Sussex Mux – launch date to be announced.

External links

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