The Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

 Big Top 40 is a chart show broadcast on 140 radio stations in the UK. The chart is based on music download

Music download

A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...

 figures provided by iTunes

ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...

.

Format

The Vodafone Big Top 40 claims to be the first real-time chart ever to be broadcast in the United Kingdom and broadcasts on 140 commercial UK radio stations. Like previous charts such as The Network Chart Show

The Network Chart Show

The Network Chart Show was a radio programme launched across Independent Local Radio in the UK on 30 September 1984.-Background:The main presenter was David Jensen , however Pat Sharp would often provide holiday cover in its later years: in its earlier years Timmy Mallett and Alan Freeman also...

 and The Pepsi Chart

Pepsi Chart (UK)

The Pepsi Chart was a networked Sunday afternoon Top 40 countdown on UK radio that started life on 1st August 1993 with Neil 'Doctor' Fox hosting the show live from the Capital Radio studios in London...

, The Vodafone Big Top 40 is sponsored by Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

, but is also partnered with iTunes.

Production

The show, which was launched following the demise of Hit40UK

Hit40uk

Hit40UK was a networked Top 40 chart show broadcasting on around 130 UK commercial radio stations every Sunday from 4pm to 7pm. It is now a TV programme shown on 4Music. The radio version was produced in house by Global Radio and Somethin' Else...

, is produced by Global Radio

Global Radio

Global Radio UK Ltd. is a British commercial radio company, the largest in the country following acquisitions of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.The company's Chief Executive Officer is Stephen Miron, while the Group Chairman is Charles Allen...

 and broadcast from the studios at Leicester Square

Leicester Square

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. The Square lies within an area bound by Lisle Street, to the north; Charing Cross Road, to the east; Orange Street, to the south; and Whitcomb Street, to the west...

 in the city of London.

The radio broadcast also features voice over artist Howard Ritchie who announces the chart position for each of the songs broadcast, along with the names of the presenters and radio station it is being broadcast on.

Presenters

The show is presented by Capital FM

The Capital FM Network

Capital is a radio network of nine Independent Local Radio stations in the United Kingdom which are owned and operated by Global Radio, launching on 3 January 2011. Capital was previously known as Mix, One, Galaxy and Hit Music at various times...

 presenter Rich Clarke

Richard 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:...

, and Kat Shoob

Kat Shoob

Katherine '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...

, with Heart presenter Matt Wilkinson deputising both Clarke and Shoob.

Launch

The first show was broadcast on Sunday 14 June 2009 at 16:00.

Some of the stations that take the chart are Global Radio's

Global Radio

Global Radio UK Ltd. is a British commercial radio company, the largest in the country following acquisitions of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.The company's Chief Executive Officer is Stephen Miron, while the Group Chairman is Charles Allen...

 Heart and Capital FM

The Capital FM Network

Capital is a radio network of nine Independent Local Radio stations in the United Kingdom which are owned and operated by Global Radio, launching on 3 January 2011. Capital was previously known as Mix, One, Galaxy and Hit Music at various times...

; Bauer Radio's Place

Big City Network

Bauer Place & Bauer Passion are the names given to two radio networks owned and operated by Bauer Radio. Place incorporates 36 local radio stations in Northern & southern England and Scotland while Passion incorporates six national or semi-national music genre stations.The main rival networks are...

 stations; GMG

GMG Radio

GMG Radio is the radio division of the Guardian Media Group. The group is based in Laser House, Salford Quays in Greater Manchester. The advertising division is in Old Trafford, Manchester. John Myers was the Chief Executive Officer, his deputy replaced him in April 2009...

's Real Radio

Real Radio

Real Radio is a network of adult contemporary independent local radio stations in England, Scotland and Wales and is operated by . Each station broadcasts local breakfast through to drive time shows and network programming in the evening and through the night...

 and UTV Radio

UTV Radio

UTV Radio is a UK media company, and owner of several radio stations in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is a growing branch of UTV Media....

 stations.

In 1993, on The Pepsi Chart

Pepsi Chart (UK)

The Pepsi Chart was a networked Sunday afternoon Top 40 countdown on UK radio that started life on 1st August 1993 with Neil 'Doctor' Fox hosting the show live from the Capital Radio studios in London...

's first show, Dr. Fox produced an interview with Mark Owen

Mark Owen

Mark Anthony Patrick Owen , is an English singer-songwriter. He is a member of pop band Take That. The band were hugely successful during the 1990s and have enjoyed even more success since their reunion in 2005...

 from Take That

Take That

Take That are a British five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter...

 and a similar interview with Owen was broadcast on The Big Top 40s first show too. This has since been stated as a coincidence.

The chart

During the week, the live iTunes

ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...

 top 10 can be seen being updated on the website. The updates occur every fifteen minutes until 6pm on Sunday when the chart is frozen during the live show.

The show starts at 4pm with a shortened version of the top 10 downloaded tunes of the week. Then, starting at 4:30pm, numbers 40 to 11 (which consist of downloads and radio airplay) are broadcast (also during this time they have regular updates of the live top 10 played). Many songs are skipped and never mentioned between 40 and 11, especially in the 40 through 30 countdown where roughly half the songs are omitted. The only way to see the whole chart is online (although this is published in UKChartsPlus when the weekly PDF is e-mailed to its subscribers on Wednesday evenings). At 6pm, the live iTunes top 10 is frozen and then broadcast on the show, which finishes at 7pm.

Stations by location

Some stations may be stated more than once, due to the location and coverage area.
East Anglia

East Anglia

East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...

• Heart Bedford
  Heart Bedford
  Heart Bedford was an Independent Local Radio station based in the Priory Business Park in Bedford, Bedfordshire.-History:...
  
  
• Heart Dunstable
  Heart Dunstable
  Heart Dunstable was an Independent Local Radio station based in Chiltern Road in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.-History:...
  
  
• Heart Norwich
• Heart Cambridge
• Heart Colchester
• Heart Ipswich
• Heart Peterborough
• KL.FM 96.7
  KL.FM 96.7
  KLFM 96.7 is an independent local radio station located in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. Its name is an abbreviation of King's Lynn FM, followed by its broadcasting frequency, 96.7....
  
  
• Ten 17
  Ten 17
  Ten-17 was an Independent Local Radio station, broadcast from studios at the Latton Bush Centre in Harlow. The station launched in May 1993 and served East Hertfordshire and West Essex until its closure on 25 July 2010.-1993 to 1999 - The Essex Radio Group:...
  
  
• The Beach
  The Beach (radio station)
  The Beach is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting to North Suffolk and East Norfolk. It broadcasts on 103.4FM from The Beach Studios on Hollingsworth Road in Lowestoft, Suffolk and on 97.4FM from a signal transmitter at a water tower in Blythburgh, Suffolk and from a signal transmitter at...
  
  

East Midlands

East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of the regions of England, consisting of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It encompasses the combined area of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and most of Lincolnshire...

• Capital East Midlands
  Capital East Midlands
  Capital East Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the East Midlands. The station, owned and operated by Global Radio, forms part of the nine-station Capital radio network...
  
  
• Amber Sound FM
  Amber Sound FM
  Amber Sound FM is a Community Radio station based in the Amber Valley, Derbyshire. It was awarded a five year community license by OFCOM in 2008 after several Restricted Service License broadcasts. Amber Sound said it would "encourage...
  
  
• Connect FM
• Oak FM
  Oak FM
  Oak FM is a local radio station broadcasting across West Leicestershire as well as the town of Nuneaton in the English Midlands in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Lite FM 106.8
• Gem 106
• Heart Berkshire
• Heart Milton Keynes
• Heart Northants
• Lincs FM
  Lincs FM
  Lincs FM is an Independent Local Radio station serving Lincolnshire and Newark, from the Humber to The Wash. It is the current holder of the licence which was advertised by the Radio Authority on 4 March 1991.-Background:...
  
  
• Peak FM
  Peak FM
  Peak FM is a British independent local radio station in north Derbyshire. The strapline, 'Today's Best Mix', has been used since 2009 and is broadcast to reflect the station playlist.-Towns:...
  
  

Greater London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

• 95.8 Capital FM
• Heart London

West Midlands

West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...

• 96.4FM BRMB
• 107.7 The Wolf
  107.7 The Wolf
  107.7 The Wolf is a British Independent Local Radio station based in Wolverhampton that serves the city and its surrounding area. The studios and transmitter are at Mander House in the centre of Wolverhampton...
  
  
• Beacon Radio
• Capital Birmingham
• Heart West Midlands
  Heart West Midlands
  Heart West Midlands is a radio station based in Birmingham, England, as part of the Heart Network, with a regional license to broadcast to the West Midlands...
  
  
• Mercia Radio
• Oak FM
  Oak FM
  Oak FM is a local radio station broadcasting across West Leicestershire as well as the town of Nuneaton in the English Midlands in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Rutland Radio
  Rutland Radio
  Rutland Radio is a Independent Local Radio station broadcasting since December 1998 from Knights Yard, Gaol Street in Oakham to Rutland on 107.2FM and Stamford on 97.4FM ....
  
  
• Signal 1
  Signal 1
  Signal One is a British Independent Local Radio station broadcasting from studios in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent to Staffordshire and Cheshire on 96.4 , 96.9 and 102.6 MHz FM for Cheshire, Stafford and North Staffordshire respectively. It also broadcasts on the Stoke "UTV-EMAP Stoke-on-Trent"...
  
  
• Wyvern FM
  Wyvern FM
  Wyvern is a radio station broadcasting to Herefordshire and Worcestershire in England. Wyvern is predominantly music-based, playing pop from the 1980s through to the present day...
  
  

North East England

North East England

North East England is one of the nine official regions of England. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and Teesside . The only cities in the region are Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland...

• Capital North East
• Central Radio
• Star Radio North East
  Star Radio North East
  Star Radio North East is a radio station serving County Durham and North Yorkshire.-History:...
  
  
• Metro Radio
  Metro Radio
  Metro Radio is an independent local radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne and broadcasting to Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Northumberland. The station's output is principally contemporary pop and dance music...
  
  
• Real Radio North East
• Sun FM
  Sun FM
  Sun FM is a radio station serving the City of Sunderland and also available in Tyne and Wear, northern parts of County Durham in England. It broadcasts on the frequency 103.4 MHz and plays a mix of contemporary and classic popular music alongside local news, travel and covered ground breaking...
  
  
• TFM Radio
  TFM Radio
  TFM Radio is a Thornaby-on-Tees based Independent Local Radio station. Launched in June 1975 as Radio Tees, with the callsign "You've got a friend on 257" it was the first independent local radio station serving the area of the Tees Valley with parts of North Yorkshire and County Durham...
  
  

North West England

North West England

North West England, informally known as The North West, is one of the nine official regions of England.North West England had a 2006 estimated population of 6,853,201 the third most populated region after London and the South East...

• 104.9 Imagine FM
• 107 The Bee
• 2BR
  2BR
  Two Boroughs Radio is a commercial radio station in East Lancashire. It broadcased from studios in the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate in Nelson, then in August 2010 2BR moved to Accrington based 'The Studios' with Sister Station 107 The Bee- About :The station broadcasts from the Pendle Forest...
  
  
• Capital Manchester
• CFM Radio
  CFM Radio
  CFM Radio is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Northern & Central Cumbria and the southern tip of Scotland, with transmitters in Carlisle, Penrith and West Cumbria. Its musical output is popular hits of all genres, with mostly today's hits being featured...
  
  
• City Talk 105.9
  City Talk 105.9
  City Talk 105.9 is a commercial radio station in Liverpool, England. The station was awarded a licence by Ofcom on 9 November 2006 and the station launched on 28 January 2008. City Talk is a sister station to the existing Bauer Radio-owned Radio City and Magic 1548, and the stations share studio...
  
  
• Energy FM
  Energy FM (Isle of Man)
  Energy FM is an Isle of Man based radio station which first started broadcasting in 2001 . The station plays music from the 50's right up to the current day with a selection of specialist shows that feature the worlds most upfront dance music and best of the 1980s...
  
  
• Heart North West and Wales
  Heart North West and Wales
  Heart North West and Wales is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Cheshire, the Wirral Peninsula and North Wales. The station began broadcasting on 2 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Cheshire and North East Wales , Heart Wirral and Heart North Wales Coast...
  
  
• High Peak Radio
  High Peak Radio
  High Peak Radio is a commercial radio station broadcasting to the Peak District. The studios are in Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire. It broadcasts on 106.4 , 103.3 , and 106.6 FM...
  
  
• Key 103
  Key 103
  Key 103 is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the city of Manchester and the north west of England. Its output is principally contemporary pop and dance music. Formerly owned by Trans World Communications, EMAP and now by Bauer Radio, Key 103 is part of Bauer's Place Network of...
  
  
• Radio City 96.7
  Radio City 96.7
  Radio City 96.7 is a British Independent Local Radio station, based in Liverpool, that serves Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales...
  
  
• Radio Wave 96.5 (Blackpool)
• Real Radio North West
• Rock FM
• 106.9 Silk FM
  106.9 Silk FM
  Silk 106.9 is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the town of Macclesfield as well as parts of Cheshire East. It is an FM station broadcasting at 106.9 FM. Towns in the Silk region includes Congleton, Knutsford, Sandbach and Wilmslow...
  
  
• The Bay (radio station)
  The Bay (radio station)
  The Bay is a British radio station owned by the CN Group broadcasting from the city of Lancaster to the region of North Lancashire and the South Lakes, in North West England. It derives its name from the sand banks of Morecambe Bay, above which the main 96.9 MHz transmitter is located...
  
  
• Tower FM
  Tower FM
  Tower FM is a British Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts across the towns of Bolton and Bury and parts of north Manchester from its studios in Wigan....
  
  
• Wire FM
• Wish FM
  Wish FM
  Wish FM is a British Independent Local Radio that serves the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside...
  
  

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

• Cool FM
  Cool FM
  97.4 Cool FM is a commercial radio station, based in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, owned and operated by Bauer Radio and part of the Big City Network. The station began broadcasting in 1990 when its parent station Downtown Radio ceased simulcasting and split its AM and FM frequencies into two...
  
  

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

• Two Lochs Radio
  Two Lochs Radio
  Two Lochs Radio is Britain's smallest commercial radio station, and community broadcaster for the Gairloch, Loch Ewe and Loch Maree areas of Wester Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland...
  
  
• Capital Scotland
• Central FM
  Central fm
  Central FM is by far the largest and longest serving English commercial radio station broadcasting in Southern Spain. There are now many English stations broadcasting over a similar area on the Costa del Sol, but Central FM leads the way, both in terms of their professional output and...
  
  
• Clyde 1
• Cuillin FM
  Cuillin FM
  Cuillin FM is a radio station which broadcasts to the Isle of Skye and Lochalsh on the Scottish mainland. Cuillin FM also link up with Two Lochs Radio in Gairloch for certain broadcasts, such as Balaich Nam Port, a weekly Scottish dance music programme on Saturday evening from 9 pm to 11...
  
  
• Forth One
• Moray Firth Radio
• Nevis Radio
  Nevis Radio
  Nevis Radio is an Independent Local Radio station that broadcasts from the Ben Nevis Estate area of Fort William in Scotland and broadcasting to the communities in the surrounding region of Lochaber including Skye, Fort Augustus, Mallaig, Kinlochleven and all parts the Western Highlands...
  
  
• Northsound 1
  Northsound 1
  Northsound 1 is a radio station serving Aberdeen and the north east of Scotland. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations and plays contemporary music from the 1980s to today, alongside news, sport and travel bulletins. Daytime and weekend...
  
  
• Radio Borders
  Radio Borders
  Radio Borders is a radio station broadcasting to the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland from studios in Tweedbank, just outside Galashiels...
  
  
• Real Radio Scotland
• West Sound FM
  West Sound FM
  West Sound FM is a local radio station for Dumfries and Galloway, owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forming part of Bauer's Place Network of stations...
  
  
• Tay FM
  Tay FM
  Tay FM is an Independent Local Radio station commercial local radio station serving Dundee, Perth and the general Tayside area in Scotland. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations...
  
  
• West FM

South East England

South East England

South East England is one of the nine official regions of England, designated in 1994 and adopted for statistical purposes in 1999. It consists of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex...

• 96.4 Eagle Radio
• 107.4 The Quay
  107.4 The Quay
  The Breeze is a United Kingdom radio station, broadcasting to the cities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester. The station is operated by Celador and is part of The Breeze network of stations...
  
  
• 107.5 Sovereign Radio
  107.5 Sovereign Radio
  Sovereign FM is a United Kingdom radio station, based in Hailsham, East Sussex, and operated by Media Sound Holdings Ltd. The station plays a selection of hit songs from the last forty years, and offers regular updates on local news, sport, travel and events...
  
  
• 107.8 Arrow FM
  107.8 Arrow FM
  Arrow FM is a United Kingdom radio station, based in Hastings, East Sussex, and operated by Media Sound Holdings Ltd. The station plays a selection of hit songs from the last forty years, and offers regular updates on local news, sport, travel and events...
  
  
• Chelmsford Radio
  Chelmsford Radio
  Chelmsford Radio is the local radio station for Chelmsford and mid Essex, broadcasting from studios in Southend, and owned by the Adventure Radio Group.- History :...
  
  
• Heart Essex
• Heart Kent
• Heart Hampshire
• Heart Oxfordshire
• Heart Sussex and Surrey
  Heart Sussex and Surrey
  Heart Sussex and Surrey is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Sussex and Surrey from studios in the Portslade area of Brighton. The station began broadcasting on Monday 26 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Sussex and Mercury FM.-History:The regional station originally...
  
  
• Isle of Wight Radio
  Isle of Wight Radio
  Isle of Wight Radio is an independent local radio station in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The station began transmitting from Briddlesford Farm AM transmitter on April 15, 1990...
  
  
• Heart Hertfordshire
• Mix 107
  Mix 107
  Mix 107 was a radio station, based in High Wycombe, England . It developed from an AM licence known as Elevenseventy and its successor operation Swan FM. The brand was a result of ownership by The Local Radio Company, owners of Mix 96 in neighbouring Aylesbury...
  
  
• Mix 96 (Aylesbury)
  Mix 96 (Aylesbury)
  Mix 96 is the Independent Local Radio station for the town of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.- History :First airing in 1994, it was the first radio station to gain a permanent licence to broadcast from Aylesbury...
  
  
• Southend Radio
  Southend Radio
  Southend Radio is a local adult contemporary radio station broadcasting to Southend on Sea, in Essex, England from studios in The Icon Building on Southend Seafront, owned by the Adventure Radio Group....
  
  
• Spirit FM
  Spirit FM
  Spirit FM broadcasts to West Sussex from studios in Dukes Court, Chichester - the place it has been since its launch more than 10 years ago. It was previously only available in the South West of the County but gained complete coverage through a transmitter near Midhurst.- History :Spirit FM began...
  
  

South West England

South West England

South West England is one of the regions of England defined by the Government of the United Kingdom for statistical and other purposes. It is the largest such region in area, covering and comprising Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. ...

• 3TR FM
  3TR FM
  3TR FM was a radio station based in the ancient market town of Warminster, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. It broadcasted on 107.5 FM to the West Wiltshire, East Somerset and surrounding area, and online via Internet streaming...
  
  
• Channel 103
  Channel 103
  Channel 103 is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting across the British island of Jersey on 103.7 FM. Launched in 1992, 103 remains the sole commercial station in the island and continues to be extremely successful with high listenership figures...
  
  
• Heart Bath
• Heart Bristol
• Heart Dorset & New Forest
  Heart Dorset & New Forest
  Heart Dorset was a British Independent Local Radio station, broadcast from studios at a former carpet shop on Southcote Road in Bournemouth. Its original name was derived from the fact that its broadcast area included parts of the counties of Dorset and Hampshire...
  
  
• Heart Exeter and Heart Torbay
  Heart Exeter and Heart Torbay
  Heart Exeter and Heart Torbay were part of the Heart Network of commercial local radio stations operated by Global Radio in the United Kingdom. The stations were launched on 23 March 2009, and replaced Gemini FM, which was the previous commercial radio station for the Exeter and Torbay areas in...
  
  
• Heart Gloucestershire
• Heart North Devon
• Heart Plymouth
• Heart Somerset
• Heart South Devon
• Heart Wiltshire
• Midwest Radio
  Midwest Radio (UK)
  Midwest Radio is a radio station which serves parts of Somerset and Dorset, in the United Kingdom.-History:Midwest Radio was formed when ivel FM and Vale FM were acquired from TLRC and merged to form one station....
  
  
• Pirate FM
  Pirate FM
  Pirate FM is one of the Independent Local Radio stations for Cornwall, playing a range of music from the 1960's to the present day.-Background:...
  
  
• Quay West 107.4
• Spire FM
  Spire FM
  Spire FM was awarded the licence to broadcast to the City of Salisbury and surrounding areas by the former Radio Authority, now OFCOM, in 1991. The capital needed to launch the station was raised entirely from local investors....
  
  
• Wessex FM
  Wessex FM
  Wessex FM is a local radio station for the Weymouth, Dorchester and Bridport areas of Dorset. All content is broadcast from its studios in Dorchester, however the Big Top 40 Show is a network program...
  
  
• Fire Radio

Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

• 96.4 The Wave (Swansea)
• 106.3 Bridge FM
  106.3 Bridge FM
  Bridge FM is the local commercial radio station broadcasting in south Wales' Bridgend County Borough and the surrounding areas on a frequency of 106.3 MHz....
  
  
• Capital South Wales
• Heart Cymru
• Heart North West and Wales
  Heart North West and Wales
  Heart North West and Wales is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Cheshire, the Wirral Peninsula and North Wales. The station began broadcasting on 2 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Cheshire and North East Wales , Heart Wirral and Heart North Wales Coast...
  
  
• Radio Carmarthenshire
  Radio Carmarthenshire
  Radio Carmarthenshire is a British Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Carmarthenshire county on 97.1 and 97.5 FM from studios in Narberth, Pembrokeshire in South Wales. It launched on 13 June 2004...
  
  
• Radio Ceredigion
  Radio Ceredigion
  Radio Ceredigion is a bilingual local radio station that serves the Welsh county of Ceredigion.-History:From its launch on 14th December 1992, the station broadcast a bilingual schedule with roughly half-and-half proportion of English and Welsh output, much of it community-oriented, from studios...
  
  
• 102.5 Radio Pembrokeshire
• Real Radio Wales
• 97.5 Scarlet FM
• BRO Radio

Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

• Capital Yorkshire
• Dearne FM
  Dearne FM
  Dearne FM is an Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts to the Barnsley area. The station is owned by the Lincs FM Group , whose stations take more of an interest in their local areas than other larger radio companies, and offer a wider type of music.-History:The station was based at...
  
  
• Hallam FM
  Hallam FM
  Hallam FM is an independent local radio station serving South Yorkshire and the North Midlands from studios in Sheffield. The station is owned and operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations.-History:...
  
  
• Minster FM
  Minster FM
  Minster FM is an independent commercial local radio station based in Dunnington near York, Yorkshire, England and covering the city of York and surrounding areas...
  
  
• Radio Aire
• Ridings FM
  Ridings FM
  Ridings FM is the Independent Local Radio station serving Wakefield and the Five Towns area since 3 October 1999. It is owned by the Lincs FM Group....
  
  
• Rother FM
  Rother FM
  Rother FM is a Independent Local Radio station for Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Rother FM is now based in Doncaster United Kingdom. The Station began broadcasting in October 2006 from its studios at Aspen Court in Templeborough...
  
  
• Real Radio Yorkshire
• Stray FM
• The Pulse of West Yorkshire
  The Pulse of West Yorkshire
  The Pulse is a British Independent Local Radio station that serves the Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale areas of West Yorkshire. The station was originally known as Pennine Radio...
  
  
• Trax FM
  Trax FM
  Trax FM is an Independent Local Radio station that broadcasts to Doncaster and Bassetlaw.-History:The station is owned by the Lincs FM Group...
  
  
• Yorkshire Coast Radio
  Yorkshire Coast Radio
  Yorkshire Coast Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in the seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. YCR is officially two Ofcom licenses, one for Scarborough and Whitby in North Yorkshire and one for Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.-History:For many years several...
  
  
• Viking FM

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 (TV)

• The Hits Radio
  The Hits Radio
  The Hits Radio is a popular mainstream music channel operated by Bauer Media. The Station forms part of the Bauer Passion Portfolio. It is the biggest digital commercial radio station in Europe.- The Hits Radio :...
  
  
• Smash Hits Radio

Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

• CKFM-FM
  CKFM-FM
  CKFM-FM, branded as 99-9 Virgin Radio , is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 99.9 on the FM dial in Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned by Astral Media...
  
   - Virgin Toronto
• CJFM-FM
  CJFM-FM
  CJFM-FM is an English language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. Owned and operated by Astral Media, it broadcasts on 95.9 MHz with an effective radiated power of 41,200 watts using an omnidirectional antenna....
  
   - Virgin Montreal
• CKZZ-FM
  CKZZ-FM
  CKZZ-FM is a Canadian radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 95.3 MHz on the FM band with an effective radiated power of 71,300 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour, and its studios are located in Richmond. The station has had a hot adult...
  
   - Virgin Vancouver

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