Articles about ILR

Beacon Radio now covers Shropshire as well as the West Midlands and the Black Country

1980s guide to what’s on DevonAir in Exeter and Torbay

Tony Harding remembers the establishment of Ocean Sound

A guide to Independent Local Radio in 1981

A system of networking on early 1980s ILR

A poster advertising BRMB Radio in Birmingham in the 1970s

The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971

Inside the sound of High Peak Radio

A decision has been made that makes Independent Local Radio less independent, less local and less good radio, says David Heathcote

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

Some technical details of how Independent Local Radio sounds so different in 1977

Take a look at Radio Victory in Portsmouth

Take a look at Radio Trent in Nottingham

Take a look at Radio Tees in Teesside

Take a look at Swansea Sound in Swansea

Take a look at Plymouth Sound in Plymouth

Take a look at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester

Take a look at Pennine Radio in Bradford

Take a look at Radio Orwell in Ipswich

Take a look at Metro Radio in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Take a look at LBC in London

Take a look at Radio Hallam in Sheffield

Take a look at Radio Forth in Edinburgh

Take a look at Downtown Radio in Belfast

Take a look at Radio Clyde in Glasgow

Take a look at Radio City in Liverpool

Take a look at Capital in London

Take a look at BRMB in Birmingham

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Take a look at Beacon Radio in Wolverhampton

Take a look at Radio 210 in Reading

41 years ago, Beacon Radio 303 comes on air for the first time

Ocean Sound looks back on the news from 1986

Radio Guide in May 1976 takes a look at late night ILR phone-ins

In 1971, the government prepares to announce commercial radio. BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’ programme examines what system they might choose in this audio recording

When a phone-in programme goes disastrously wrong

A look back at the first wave of ILR stations and where they are now

Nigel Stapley twirls the FM dial in the days when that meant silence or hiss