Launch Dates: Independent Local Radio
19 December 2006 tbs.pm/3205
Only original IBA-awarded contracts are listed here.
| Station | Area | Official launch |
|---|---|---|
| Radio 210 Thames Valley | Reading | 8-Mar-76 |
| 2CR – Two Counties Radio | Bournemouth | 15-Sep-80 |
| Radio Aire | Leeds | 1-Sep-81 |
| Beacon Radio | Wolverhampton | 12-Apr-76 |
| BRMB | Birmingham | 19-Feb-74 |
| Radio Broadland | Norwich | 1-Oct-84 |
| Capital Radio | London | 16-Oct-73 |
| CBC Radio | Cardiff | 11-Apr-80 |
| Centre Radio | Leicester | 7-Sep-81 |
| Chiltern Radio | Luton | 15-Oct-81 |
| Chiltern Radio | Bedford | 1-Mar-82 |
| Radio City | Liverpool | 21-Oct-74 |
| Radio Clyde | Glasgow | 31-Dec-73 |
| Radio County Sound | Guildford | 4-Apr-83 |
| DevonAir Radio | Exeter | 7-Nov-80 |
| DevonAir Radio | Torbay | 12-Dec-80 |
| Downtown Radio | Belfast | 16-Mar-76 |
| Essex Radio | Southend-on-Sea | 12-Sep-81 |
| Essex Radio | Chelmsford | 10-Dec-81 |
| Radio Forth | Edinburgh | 22-Jan-75 |
| GB Radio | Newport | 13-Jun-83 |
| Radio Hallam | Sheffield | 1-Oct-74 |
| Hereward Radio | Peterborough | 10-Jul-80 |
| Hereward Radio | Northampton | 1-Oct-84 |
| Invicta Sound | Kent | 1984 |
| LBC | London | 8-Oct-73 |
| Marcher Sound/Sain-Y-Gororau | Wrexham | 5-Sep-83 |
| Mercia Sound | Coventry | 23-May-80 |
| Radio Mercury | Crawley | 20-Oct-84 |
| Metro Radio | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 15-Jul-74 |
| Moray Firth Radio | Inverness | 23-Feb-82 |
| Northsound Radio | Aberdeen | 27-Jul-81 |
| Radio Orwell | Ipswich | 28-Oct-75 |
| Pennine Radio | Bradford | 16-Sep-75 |
| Pennine Radio | Huddersfield | 1984 |
| Piccadilly Radio | Manchester | 2-Apr-74 |
| Plymouth Sound | Plymouth | 19-May-75 |
| Red Rose Radio | Preston | 5-Oct-82 |
| Sain-Y-Gororau/ Marcher Sound | Wrecsam | 5-Sep-83 |
| Saxon Radio | Bury St Edmunds | 6-Nov-82 |
| Severn Sound | Gloucester | 23-Oct-80 |
| Signal Radio | Stoke-on-Trent | 5-Sep-83 |
| Southern Sound Radio | Brighton | 29-Aug-83 |
| Swansea Sound | Swansea | 30-Sep-74 |
| Radio Tay | Dundee | 17-Oct-80 |
| Radio Tay | Perth | 14-Nov-80 |
| Radio Tees | Stockton-on-Tees | 24-Jun-75 |
| Radio Trent | Nottingham | 3-Jul-75 |
| Radio Victory | Portsmouth | 14-Oct-75 |
| Viking Radio | Hull | 17-Apr-84 |
| Radio West | Bristol | 27-Oct-81 |
| Westsound Radio | Ayr | 4-Dec-81 |
| Westsound Radio | Girvan | 4-Dec-81 |
| Wiltshire Radio | Swindon | 12-Oct-82 |
| Radio Wyvern | Worcester | 4-Oct-82 |
You Say
3 responses to this article
Boggenstrovia wrote 18 April 2014 at 12:05 am
No Ocean Sound in this list?
Radio Victory is there, but surely the company who took over from Victory should be on the list as well.
Oak Wood wrote 28 January 2023 at 11:37 pm
– No CNFM 103 ?? I’m sure they launched under the IBA, on February 12th, 1989, and became the first station in the UK to be licensed to broadcast on a single waveband (VHF).
– Invicta Sound launched the same day as Radio Broadland – 1st October 1984
Russ J Graham wrote 3 February 2023 at 4:57 pm
Strictly speaking, CNFM wasn’t an ILR station – it was a SALLIE (small scale local licence), a category soon replaced by “incremental” stations.
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