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More local radio closures
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 7 April 2010
More radio closures. Huddersfield-based radio station Pennine FM has gone off air. The local station, which began life as Huddersfield FM just over a decade ago, had three different owners in its last two years in business, all of whom struggled to make the station commercially viable.
Current owners Urban Media Group only took over last September. The Programme Controller they hired, Jonathan Gold, presented the final show on Monday night during which, according to Radio Today, he announced the station was to close. The licence to operate a station in the town has been handed back to OfCom, while the transmitter broadcasting the station has already been turned off.
Elsewhere, the Worcestershire outpost of Sunshine Radio, once part of the Laser Broadcasting Group’s network of stations, has also closed down, according to Radio Today. But its sister stations in Ludlow and Hertfordshire remain on air.
