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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.
Background
The station has a 23.7% share of all radio listening within its
TSA with average hours per listener of 10.9 per week (RAJAR June 2009). 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 21 April 1918, was made in this
building.
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. 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 was one of the judges.
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
96.7 FM and Trent View Flats (near
the John Leggott College) in Scunthorpe on
97.6 FM. 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.
DAB
Licence
The Lincolnshire DAB licence has been advertised since 24
October 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 24
January 2008, Ofcom received one application for the Lincolnshire
DAB licence - from MuxCo Lincolnshire, which is 51% owned by Lincs
FM, and was awarded on 19 February 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
Riding of Yorkshire), Grantham and Lincoln County Hospital. It
should be available before July 2009.
Branding
The station uses the "Link-up" jingle package produced by S2blue. The strapline for the station
is "hits and memories".
Schedule
The Sunday morning half-hour Farming programme presented by Sally Elkington at
7:00 a.m. 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 5:00–9:00 a.m.. Rob Hammond has the
afternoon show from 2:00–6:00 p.m..
Former
presenters
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