The Durham and Darlington FM licenses owned by View TV Group have been sold to Helius Media. The licenses which had been joined to form a single station, had been broadcasting as Vintage Music Radio, and before that Rathergood Radio. View TV bought what was Star Radio North East in March 2017, launching Rathergood Radio…Read moreRead more
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View TV Group Changes
There are a few upcoming changes to stations owned by the View TV Group. Details are a little sketchy at this time, so this may change. Vintage Music Radio which had taken over the FM frequencies of Rathergood Radio’s following Rathergood’s move to London, is also to move to London. This station will launch on…Read moreRead more
Rathergood Radio Leaves North Yorkshire
Rathergood Radio has been removed from the North Yorkshire DAB multiplex. The station moved to London last year, with the FM frequencies in Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Durham, and Richmond now broadcasting Vintage Music Radio. This follows a number of other stations leaving the North Yorkshire DAB multiplex, including Coast & Country Radio, and Encore. Currently…Read moreRead more
DAB Developments
Following the recent rebranding of Cyber Hot Hits to Cyber Radio (reflecting a more varied playlist), the station labels are being update on the small scale DAB multiplexes that the station broadcasts on. The station has confirmed that the relabeling will take place once the relisting process is complete. On the Bristol (main) multiplex SoulTrain…Read moreRead more
Entire Radio Station Moves to a New Home
In what could be a first, Rathergood Radio has moved in it’s entirety, and is now broadcasting to the London area on DAB from studios in Reading. To complicate matters, what was Rathergood Radio in County Durham and North Yorkshire has now rebranded to Vintage Music Radio, playing music from the 70s and 80s. Both…Read moreRead more
Updates to Previous Posts
A couple of updates to previous stories: Encore Radio is no longer listed on Muxco’s (the North Yorkshire DAB multiplex operator) website, so can be assumed that the station has stopped broadcasting on the North Yorkshire multiplex. The schedule changes at Rathergood Radio are not as major as first reported. Cleo and Craig are still…Read moreRead more
Rathergood Radio Joins RadioPlayer
North East local radio station Rathergood Radio has joined UK Radioplayer. The station will benefit from being accessible on Radioplayer’s comprehensive range of apps for Apple, Android, Kindle Fire, and Windows Phone apps, plus an on-line player, accessible through web browsers on PCs. More information on Radioplayer can be found on the Radioplayer website at…Read moreRead more
Rathergood Radio to Go Advert Free at the Weekend
County Durham, Darlington, and North Yorkshire local radio station Rathergood Radio, are to go advert free on Fridays and Saturdays. Starting in April, adverts will no longer feature between 6pm and midnight.