Ofcom awards new community radio licences in Leeds, Bradford, Beverley and Kingston-upon-Hull
23 May 2014 03:58 PM
Ofcom has announced the
award of four new community radio licences in Leeds, Bradford, Beverley and
Kingston-upon-Hull.
Licences have been awarded to
Bradford Asian Radio, Beverley FM, Hull Kingston Radio, and AKASH Radio, for a
service in Leeds.
Community radio services are
provided on a not-for-profit basis focusing on the delivery of specific social
benefits to a particular geographical community or a community of
interest.
Ofcom has awarded community
radio licences to:
AKASH Radio (Akash Radio
Leeds Limited)
Contact
name: Gurmail S Sahota
Phone: 0788
8
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E-mail: raniproperties@hotmail.com
AKASH Radio will provide a
community radio service for Punjabi-speaking communities in
Leeds.
Bradford Asian Radio
(Bradford Asian Radio Limited)
Contact
name: Syed Hassan
Phone: 0780
0 599 563
E-mail: syedhassan@live.co.uk
Website: www.pakistanfm.co.uk
Bradford Asian Radio will serve
the Asian population of Bradford, broadcasting a speech-dominated service in
Urdu, Panjabi, Mirpuri, Bengali, Hindi and English.
Beverley FM (East
Yorkshire Broadcasting Limited)
Contact
name: Roy Harteveld
Mobile: 078
88 843167
E-mail: dfewster@aol.com
Website: www.beverleyfm.com
Beverley FM will provide a
service for the residents, businesses, educational establishments, local groups
and industries in Beverley and the surrounging areas.
Hull Kingston Radio
(Hull Kingston Radio Limited)
Contact
name: Malcolm Scott
Phone: 0783
1 365 390
E-mail: Mal@malcolmscott.org
Website: www.hullkingstonradio.com
Hull Kingston Radio will provide
a community radio service to the people of East Hull.
The licences are awarded for a
five-year period.
A statement setting out the
main determining factors for the awards of the community radio licences
referred to above can be found on the Ofcom website.
ENDS
NOTES FOR
EDITORS
1. In addition to the licence
awards detailed above, Ofcom considered five further applications, but decided
not to award a licence to the following groups:
- Fantastic Radio (Fantastic-FM
Limited), Pudsey, West Leeds;
- Radio Azaan (Radio Azaan
Limited), Leeds;
- Radio Make a Change (Make a
Change Community Limited), Bradford;
- Hull Community Radio (Hull
Community Radio), East Hull; and
- South Humberside Community Radio
(South Humberside Community Radio Limited), Winterton, North
Lincolnshire).
2. Applications for community
radio licences are being invited on a region-by-region basis. Further
details can be found on the Ofcom website at: http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/a
pply-for-licence/