Articles about Independent Local Radio

Innovation comes from local radio – and vice versa

Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan

The government has announced it plans to start commercial radio in the UK

Closedown BBC local radio to replace it with the new Independent Local Radio? Not on my watch, says the BBC Director-General

Tony Harding remembers the establishment of Ocean Sound

Capital Radio and 2CR advertise to you

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

A second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations could soon be approved by the government. How will they be chosen?

A new idea in Independent Local Radio – broadcasting different things on AM to what’s on FM

The second phase of ILR begins as CBC comes on air in Cardiff

How networked radio news was made

With their old studios about to be abolished, Hereward Radio get ready to move to a new facility

Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959

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

Inside the sound of High Peak Radio

Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

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

How can you get the IBA to build you an ILR station in 1979?

A demo package of jingles for Radio Forth, NorthSound and Moray Firth Radio from 1981

New local radio station CBC in Cardiff prepares to come on air in 1980

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