NME Radio

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NME Radio
NME logo.png
Broadcast areaUnited Kingdom
Frequency DAB+: 9A
Programming
Format New and alternative music
Ownership
Owner BandLab Technologies
History
First air date
24 June 2008 (2008-06-24)
Links
Website nme.com/audio

NME 1 and NME 2 are two British radio stations operated under NME magazine branding, that broadcast an alternative music format. They were launched online in 2018 as successors of the original NME Radio, [1] which broadcast from 2008 to 2013.

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The two NME channels are broadcast 24/7, with regular news bulletins and features. They can be heard online, via various radio playing services or through the NME website [2] [3] [4] and found on DAB with both stations broadcasting on local multiplexes in Norwich and Brighton, and with NME 1 broadcasting alongside sister service CDNX in London. [5] [6]

History

Radio 1/NME tent at the 2005 Reading Festival Reading festival radio 1 tent 2005.jpg
Radio 1/NME tent at the 2005 Reading Festival

Initial plans for an NME-branded radio station were revealed to the media in late 2007 by Sammy Jacob, creator of XFM, who left the station following its purchase by Global Radio. [7] The station began operating under licence soon after by DX Media, a company operated by Jacob. [8] [9]

Broadcast from studios in the Blue Fin Building in South Bank, London, also home to IPC Media, NME Radio was launched on 24 June 2008 with its first track being "Knights of Cydonia" by British rock band Muse. [9] [10] The presenting line-up at launch included Neil Cole and Claire Sturgess [11]

On Friday 11 June 2010, almost two years after its launch, The Guardian reported that NME Radio was to cease broadcasting on DAB digital radio, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat platforms, and would revert to an online only "jukebox" format after DX Media had decided to end the agreement to operate the service. [12] [13]

On 21 July 2010, IPC Media signed a new licence agreement with local radio group Town and Country Broadcasting. [14] NME Radio relaunched in September 2010 and returned to some regional digital audio broadcasting (DAB) multiplexes. The station returned to Freesat and Sky, where it was available until 5 December 2011. Following the new licensing agreement, operation sites were split between IPC Media's London HQ and Town and Country Broadcasting's station in south Wales, Nation Radio.

The Town and Country incarnation of the station ceased broadcasting on 25 March 2013 at midday. [15]

NME Radio relaunched in 2018 with two stations, NME 1 and NME 2, [16] taking over online from Sammy Jacob's Camden Xperience Radio channels (CDNX), which were operated on a trial basis, with the idea that CDNX would be relaunched at a later date [17] on DAB in the London area. [18] [19] [20]

Programming

Under the control of DX Media, NME Radio featured 16 hours of live broadcasting with a variety of presenters. Following the purchase of the stations by Town and Country Broadcasting, some daytime programmes were initially introduced.

Currently,

NME2 seems to have more of an orientation towards black music than does NME1.

Availability (at time of demise)

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References

  1. ↑ "NME Radio | Listen on Web, Mobile, Apple Music, DAB & More". NME Radio.
  2. ↑ "NME 1". radio.nme.com.
  3. ↑ "NME 2". radio.nme.com.
  4. ↑ "NME Radio Roundup 14 June 2021: Lorde, Pa Salieu, Clairo & Japanese Breakfast". NME . June 14, 2021.
  5. ↑ "NME Radio: How to tune in, where to listen, and everything you need to know". NME . June 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/can-now-listen-nme-audio-dab-radio-london-2383198
  7. ↑ "Xfm co-founder to launch NME Radio". Music Week.
  8. ↑ Sophie Morris (9 June 2008). "My Life In Media: Sammy Jacob" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
  9. 1 2 John Plunkett (24 September 2008). "NME Radio to go up against Xfm". Guardian Unlimited . London. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
  10. ↑ "Muse song first ever played on NME Radio". NME Radio. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
  11. ↑ "NME Radio reveals daytime line-up". Campaign.
  12. ↑ "NME Radio To Leave DAB". Radio Today. 11 June 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  13. ↑ "NME digital radio service pulled". BBC News. 15 June 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
  14. ↑ Plunkett, John (21 July 2010). "NME Radio to bring back presenters". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
  15. ↑ "NME Radio comes to unexpected end". Music Week.
  16. ↑ "NME Radio comes to unexpected end". Music Week. 13 June 2018.
  17. ↑ "CDNX". media.info.
  18. ↑ "CDNX RADIO".
  19. ↑ Galton, Bridget (October 19, 2020). "Xfm founder Sammy Jacob celebrates Camden's rich music heritage". Hampstead Highgate Express.
  20. ↑ "Open source DAB+ encoder in use on London small-scale multiplex". June 11, 2021.
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