{"id":1789,"date":"2019-08-16T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:06:44","slug":"chorley-fm-closes-and-hand-backs-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2019\/08\/16\/chorley-fm-closes-and-hand-backs-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Chorley FM Closes and Hand Backs License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chorley FM, a community radio station for the Chorley area of Lancashire, has closed abruptly, and have handed back their license to Ofcom. No reason has yet been given for the closure.<\/p>\n<p>A police investigation had been launched In March after allegations that a director at the station had been sexually assaulted whilst working at the station. The complainant, Sam Martin, chose to go public after making the complaint to the police.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the board of Chorley FM ignored complaints, instead suspending Sam Martin without pay. She later resigned. The board of Chorley FM had subsequently changed.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst it is not known if the two events are linked, the investigation may have contributed to the stations closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chorley FM, a community radio station for the Chorley area of Lancashire, has closed abruptly, and have handed back their license to Ofcom. No reason has yet been given for the closure. A police investigation had been launched In March after allegations that a director at the station had been sexually assaulted whilst working at&#8230;<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2019\/08\/16\/chorley-fm-closes-and-hand-backs-license\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[448,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}