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Play Radio acquire Hampshire licences
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 9 June 2009
Play Radio, currently an online operation, has announced it has acquired Radio Hampshire’s licences in Southampton and Winchester, which will see the service broadcast on FM for the first time. As previously reported, Town & Country Radio closed Southampton-based Radio Hampshire somewhat abruptly late last month. The closure impacted on Tindle Radio’s Winchester FM franchise, because they had been simply syndicating T&C’s Southampton service since last November.
According to Radio Today, Play Radio has acquired both FM frequencies off Radio Hampshire Limited’s liquidators, and hope to launch a local service in the area asap.
Play operate a number of different services online, some presenter based, some back to back music (somewhat controversially, their talk service includes a weekly show by BNP Deputy Leader Simon Darby). It’s not clear how much of the FM service will come from Play’s online channels, and how much will be locally produced. Bosses at Play are currently talking to media regulator OfCom about their proposed programming.
