Lincs FM

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Lincs FM
Image:LincsFM_logo.jpg
Broadcast area Lincolnshire
Frequency 102.2 MHz, 96.7 MHz, 97.6 MHz
First air date March 1, 1992
Format Contemporary
Owner Lincs FM Group
Sister stations Compass FM
Webcast 64 kbit/s
Website www.lincsfm.co.uk

Lincs FM is an Independent Local Radio station serving Lincolnshire and Newark, from the Humber to The Wash. It is the current holder of the licence which was advertised by the Radio Authority on 4 March 1991.

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[edit] Background

The Station has a 22.4% share of the audience within its TSA with people listening for an average of 12.9 hours a week (Rajar June 2006). Lincs FM broadcasts from studios at Witham Park in Lincoln, next to the River Witham at the far end of Waterside South where the river is crossed by the Nottingham-Grimsby railway. The building used to be the Titanic Works owned by the Clayton and Shuttleworth engineering company. Captain Roy Brown's Sopwith Camel, which shot down Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) on April 21st 1918, was made in this building.

What attracts its older listeners to the station (and its sister stations) is the playlist is not too dance-orientated nor monotonously rigid and inflexible.

[edit] Award nominations

In 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007, the station was nominated for a Sony Radio Award for Station of the Year in the 300,000 to 1 m listeners category. Radio Lincolnshire has yet to be nominated for this category. Jane Hill (now a novelist and stand-up comedian) was nominated for Station Programmer of the Year in 2004. David Lloyd, who helped launch the station and was Managing Director of LBC and now works at Virgin Radio, is one of the judges.

[edit] Transmitters

The main and far-reaching 102.2 FM signal comes from the Belmont transmitting station. It also has lower-powered frequencies in Grantham, south of the town near the bypass, on 96.7FM and Trent View Flats (near the John Leggott College) in Scunthorpe on 97.6FM. Lincs FM can be clearly heard in northern Nottinghamshire and eastern South Yorkshire. The Belmont transmitter has the Digital One and MXR Yorkshire 12A multiplexes but does not transmit Lincs FM on DAB. The EMAP Humberside 11B multiplex transmits Lincs FM across East Yorkshire, with a transmitter at Bevan Flats in north Grimsby. A further DAB transmitter at Trent View Flats was planned as a later possibility when the licence was awarded in December 2000. EMAP was the only bidder for the licence.

[edit] DAB Licence

The Lincolnshire DAB licence has been advertised since October 24th 2007, with a likely bidder in place by late 2008. The far south of the county (South Holland, Bourne & Stamford) will not be covered (as it is covered by the Peterborough multiplex), yet all of North and North-East Lincolnshire will be. On January 24 2008, Ofcom received one application for the Lincolnshire DAB licence - from MuxCo Lincolnshire, which is 51% owned by Lincs FM, and was awarded on February 19 2008. It will also carry Compass FM and another new Lincs FM digital-only station called Lincs Country, and use four transmitters at Belmont, High Hunsley (East Yorkshire), Grantham and Lincoln County Hospital. It will be available before July 2009, and possibly as early as April 2009.

[edit] Branding

The station uses the "Link-up" jingle package produced by S2blue. The strapline for the station is hits and memories.

[edit] Schedule

The Sunday morning half-hour Farming programme presented by Sally Elkington at 7am is at the same time as Radio Lincolnshire's similarly titled programme. It often interviews students at Riseholme Agricultural College. John Marshall has the Breakfast programme from 6-10am. Rob Hammond has the night-time show from 9pm-1am.

[edit] Former presenters

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