Banbury Sound
City | Banbury |
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Broadcast area | Banburyshire (northern Oxfordshire) |
Frequency | 95.9 and 107.6 MHz |
First air date | 25 February 2006 |
Format | Contemporary |
Owner | Quidem |
Website | Banbury Sound |
Banbury Sound is an Independent Local Radio station serving the Banbury and Brackley areas of north Oxfordshire. It is owned and operated by Quidem and broadcasting from studios at Honiley, Warwickshire.
History
Banbury Sound was launched as Touch FM on Saturday 25 February 2006 by former breakfast presenter Dale Collins, with the first news bulletin read by then-group editor Daniel Bruce. It was previously owned by the Cumbria-based CN Group and was their third station to adopt the Touch FM branding, alongside sister stations in Coventry and Stratford-upon-Avon. Programming was networked between the three stations outside of breakfast and drivetime.
The station changed owners on 1 April 2009, making it part of Banbury Broadcasting Company Limited - with staff members John Crutch (Station Director), Anneka Naysmith (Sales Director) and Dale Collins (Director of Programming) as partners in the buyout. Two months later, the station relaunched as Banbury Sound and introduced a full schedule of local output from its studios in the Grimsbury area of Banbury [1]
After the station was sold again to Touch FM's new owners, Quidem, in October 2010, the station co-located to studios at Honiley in Warwickshire and re-introduced networked programming outside of breakfast.
In September 2019, it was announced that Quidem, the station's current owners, were running at a financial loss and the business had entered into a brand-licensing agreement with Global Radio. This change means that Banbury Sound and its sister Quidem stations will take one of Global's brands under the brand-licensing agreement [2]. At the beginning of October, Ofcom opened a consultation following Quidem's request for its six stations to make significant changes to their formats [3].
Programming
Banbury Sound airs presenter-led local breakfast, mid-morning and drivetime shows on weekdays (6-10am, 10-12 and 3-7pm), with automated music outside these hours. At weekends, the station carries networked programming shared with other Quidem-owned stations.
The station's local presenters are Ollie Gallant & Simon Alexander (Weekday Breakfast) Kirsty Leahy (Weekday Mid-Morning) and Liam Clarke (Weekday Drivetime).[4]
Other presenters include James Watts, Mark O'Sullivan and Jason Moss, whom mainly present on Banbury Sound's sister stations.
Presenters
- Oliver Gallant
- Simon Alexander
- Liam Clarke
- Kirsty Leahy
- Jason Moss
- Mark O'Sullivan
- James Watts
- Neil Wilkes
News
Local news bulletins air every hour from 6 am to 7 pm on weekdays and from 8 am to midday at weekends, with headlines and sports bulletins during breakfast and drivetime shows on weekdays.[5]
See also
References
- ^ RadioToday.co.uk - Banbury Sound launches Archived 2009-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, 1 June 2009
- ^ Radio Today - Quidem enters brand licensing agreement with Global, 02 September 2019
- ^ OfCom - Banbury Sound, Rugby FM and Touch FM Requests to change Format, 02 October 2019
- ^ Banbury Sound - On Air
- ^ Banbury Sound - public file