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Articles about Independent Local Radio

So you want an ILR station?

Published 7 August 2017

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

Published 16 June 2017

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

Published 2 June 2017

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

Published 12 April 2017

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

Published 7 April 2017

Ocean Sound looks back on the news from 1986

Published 30 January 2017

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

Published 17 August 2015

When a phone-in programme goes disastrously wrong

Published 24 November 2014

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

Published 15 August 2001

A sudden end to an ILR story