Touch FM (Banbury)
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Banbury Sound is an Independent Local Radio
station broadcasting to the towns of Banbury and Brackley
and northern Oxfordshire
, in the English
Midlands
.
-based CN Group
and was their third station to adopt the Touch FM brand, along with sister stations in Coventry
and Stratford-upon-Avon
. Programming was networked between the three stations outside of breakfast and drivetime.
The station changed owners on 1 April 2009 making it part of Banbury Broadcasting Company Limited - with staff members John Crutch (Station Director), Anneka Naysmith (Sales Director) and Dale Collins (Director of Programming) as partners in the buyout. Two months later, the station relaunched as Banbury Sound and introduced a full schedule of local output from its studios in the Grimsbury area of Banbury.
After the station was sold again to Touch FM's new owners, Quidem Midlands, in October 2010, the station co-located to studios at Honiley in Warwickshire and re-introduced networked programming outside of breakfast. Local weekday daytime and drivetime shows were re-introduced in May 2011, but these are now pre-recorded in advance.
(via IRN). Sky News bulletins air hourly 24 hours a day with local news updates following the national bulletin on weekdays each hour between 7am & 10am and at 5pm & 6pm. 60 second local updates air on the half hour between 7:30am & 5:30pm with extended sport round-ups during breakfast and drivetime.
At weekends, Sky News bulletins continue to air hourly with local updates broadcast during breakfast.
Louise Hancock
Duty Editor
Nick Jewers
Broadcast Journalists
Lindsey Alder
Paul Bradbury
Anna Sills
Independent Local Radio
Independent Local Radio is the collective name given to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom. The same name is used for Independent Local Radio in Ireland.-Development of ILR:...
station broadcasting to the towns of Banbury and Brackley
Brackley
Brackley is a town in south Northamptonshire, England. It is about from Oxford and miles form Northampton. Historically a market town based on the wool and lace trade, it was built on the intersecting trade routes between London, Birmingham and the English Midlands and between Cambridge and Oxford...
and northern Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
, in the English
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...
Midlands
English Midlands
The Midlands, or the English Midlands, is the traditional name for the area comprising central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. It borders Southern England, Northern England, East Anglia and Wales. Its largest city is Birmingham, and it was an important...
.
History
Banbury Sound was launched on 25th February 2006 by breakfast presenter Dale Collins. It was previously owned by the CumbriaCumbria
Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
-based CN Group
CN Group
The CN Group Limited is an independent local media business based in Carlisle which operates in three different media fields.The company was formerly known as the Cumbrian Newspapers Group Ltd but changed its name to reflect the fact that is no longer primarily a newspaper publisher...
and was their third station to adopt the Touch FM brand, along with sister stations in Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
and Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, south east of Birmingham and south west of Warwick. It is the largest and most populous town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon, which uses the term "on" to indicate that it covers...
. Programming was networked between the three stations outside of breakfast and drivetime.
The station changed owners on 1 April 2009 making it part of Banbury Broadcasting Company Limited - with staff members John Crutch (Station Director), Anneka Naysmith (Sales Director) and Dale Collins (Director of Programming) as partners in the buyout. Two months later, the station relaunched as Banbury Sound and introduced a full schedule of local output from its studios in the Grimsbury area of Banbury.
After the station was sold again to Touch FM's new owners, Quidem Midlands, in October 2010, the station co-located to studios at Honiley in Warwickshire and re-introduced networked programming outside of breakfast. Local weekday daytime and drivetime shows were re-introduced in May 2011, but these are now pre-recorded in advance.
Presenters
- Richard ClarkeRichard Clarke (radio personality)Richard "Rich" Clarke is a British radio presenter and DJ from Worcester, England currently employed by Global Radio as a presenter on Capital FM and The Vodafone Big Top 40.-Student radio:...
(The Big Top 40 ShowThe Big Top 40 ShowThe Vodafone Big Top 40 is a chart show broadcast on 140 radio stations in the UK. The chart is based on music download figures provided by iTunes.-Format:...
) - Ben Day (Weekday daytime)
- Steve Hyden (Saturday afternoons)
- Kirsty Leahy (Weekday breakfast, weekend mornings)
- Steve Orchard (Cortina Nights)
- Mark O'Sullivan (Sunday afternoons)
- Kat ShoobKat ShoobKatherine 'Kat' Shoob is a British radio presenter on The Vodafone Big Top 40.Shoob modelled for Maxim in September 2006.Shoob presented The Mint, a phone-in quiz that was shown on ITV1 and ITV2...
(The Big Top 40 ShowThe Big Top 40 ShowThe Vodafone Big Top 40 is a chart show broadcast on 140 radio stations in the UK. The chart is based on music download figures provided by iTunes.-Format:...
)
News
Banbury Sound broadcasts a mix of national and local news bulletins produced in-house and by Sky News RadioSky News Radio
Sky News Radio is the radio arm of the Sky News division of British Sky Broadcasting. It has been operating since June 1999, providing a news bulletin service for UK commercial radio stations operators across the UK and for a number of English-speaking radio stations across the world.The Sky News...
(via IRN). Sky News bulletins air hourly 24 hours a day with local news updates following the national bulletin on weekdays each hour between 7am & 10am and at 5pm & 6pm. 60 second local updates air on the half hour between 7:30am & 5:30pm with extended sport round-ups during breakfast and drivetime.
At weekends, Sky News bulletins continue to air hourly with local updates broadcast during breakfast.
News staff
EditorLouise Hancock
Duty Editor
Nick Jewers
Broadcast Journalists
Lindsey Alder
Paul Bradbury
Anna Sills
Staff
- Steve Orchard (Chief Executive)
- Steve Hyden (Group Programme Director)
- Wendy Pallot (Chairperson)
- Wayne Lowery (Commercial Director)
- Paul Angus (Managing Director)
- John Crutch (Sales Executive)