106.9FM WHCR
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West Hull Community Radio (known on air as "New WHCR") is a local community radio
station serving the areas of West Hull
, England
and surrounding towns and villages.
are also played out. The station works on an average 60% music - 40% speech principle with each show having slightly different amounts of these.
In December 2009, the station won Radio Station Of The Year in Yorkshire for 2009 with a potential audience of under 300,000 adults at the Sony radio academy awards.
In August 2011 WHCR drive-time presenter Pete Mills won the Hull Radio Personality of the Year Award in a three-week online poll carried out by the Hull based telecom company Karoo part of the KCom group beating 10 other radio personalities from other local commercial and BBC stations.
WHCR has a staff of 52 volunteers who carry out a wide range of duties including broadcasting, sales, marketing, and news/information gathering.
Community radio
Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...
station serving the areas of West Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and surrounding towns and villages.
About
WHCR is focused on providing high quality radio programmes 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The station music policy is for 'instantly recognisable classic hit music' during daytime hours with a much broader mix of music than any commercial stations in the area during the evening. WHCR has a large focus on local based speech content that provides information, news, and local content. This can consist of outside broadcasts from many wide and variable local sources, events and organisations as well as interviews with local community groups or people that listeners may be interested. A variety of news, entertainment and factual features taken from IRNIndependent Radio News
Independent Radio News provides a service of news bulletins, audio and copy to commercial radio stations in the UK and beyond.The managing director of IRN is Tim Molloy, who succeeded long-term MD John Perkins in November 2009...
are also played out. The station works on an average 60% music - 40% speech principle with each show having slightly different amounts of these.
In December 2009, the station won Radio Station Of The Year in Yorkshire for 2009 with a potential audience of under 300,000 adults at the Sony radio academy awards.
In August 2011 WHCR drive-time presenter Pete Mills won the Hull Radio Personality of the Year Award in a three-week online poll carried out by the Hull based telecom company Karoo part of the KCom group beating 10 other radio personalities from other local commercial and BBC stations.
WHCR has a staff of 52 volunteers who carry out a wide range of duties including broadcasting, sales, marketing, and news/information gathering.
Current
- Tricia Topliss-Yates
- Gill Sennett
- Louise Beech
- Pete Haslam
- Marcus Matthews
- Mark Scott
- Mike Whittingham
- Mike Woodhouse
- Al Dupres
- Max Roberts
- Sean Bell
- Crown Jules
- Veronica Capaldi
- Les Smith
- Dave Fewster
- Pete Mills
- Fiona Mills
- Liam V
- Jon Gibbins
- Andy Fea
- Simone Clark
- Katy Beskow
- Rebecca Jane
- Tom Render
- Gareth Jones