How Independent Local Radio looked and sounded in 1979
23 January 2023
The next round of ILR stations has been approved
29 August 2022
The government has announced it plans to start commercial radio in the UK
25 April 2022
A second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations could soon be approved by the government. How will they be chosen?
20 December 2021
A new idea in Independent Local Radio – broadcasting different things on AM to what’s on FM
26 July 2021
With their old studios about to be abolished, Hereward Radio get ready to move to a new facility
4 November 2020
Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959
28 September 2020
The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971
18 February 2019
Ofcom plans to further deregulate Independent Local Radio. But are things already too lax? Come hear the tale of political corruption at an ILR station in 1994
1 October 2018
Some technical details of how Independent Local Radio sounds so different in 1977
30 January 2017
Radio Guide in May 1976 takes a look at late night ILR phone-ins
30 November 2012
Nigel Stapley twirls the FM dial in the days when that meant silence or hiss
19 December 2006
The original contractors in the real ILR system