Lincs FM Group

Lincs FM Group
Industry Commercial radio
Founded March 1991
Headquarters Witham Park, Waterside South, Lincoln, LN5 7JN
Area served
 England
Products 9 independent local radio stations
Total assets MuxCo Lincolnshire
Divisions 9
Website Lincs FM Group

The Lincs FM Group based in Lincolnshire, in the UK is the parent company of several Independent Local Radio (ILR) stations.

History

The Lincs FM group was formed in the early 1990s with the winning of the ILR licence for Lincolnshire. Lincs FM started broadcasting in 1992 and since then the Lincs FM Group has won and acquired licences to operate other local radio stations across the UK's Midlands and Yorkshire regions.

Radio Stations

Branding

Each station's logo is green and purple as these are the company colours; these logos feature heavily in each stations merchandise.

The group runs three music formats across its stations. "Hits & Memories" stations are the staple of the group, playing a wide variety of popular music from the 1960s to the present day. "Music You Love" stations lean older, with a greater percentage of songs released pre-1990 played. "Country music and more" is the format of the digital-only station Suffolk First, which plays a mixture of country music and pop music.

Hits & Memories Brand
The Music You Love Brand

Acquisitions

Until October 2007 the group was unique in the United Kingdom in that it had grown organically through licence awards, rather than by acquisition of existing stations. As FM licences stopped being advertised in the late 2000s, the group, with a desire to continue growing, made their first acquisition with Oak 107 FM in October 2007 (previously owned by the CN Group). This station was sold on a few years later to rejoin its former network. This was followed by the acquisition of KCFM in June 2009, previously owned by Planet Broadcasting.

Disposals

  • Oak FM, comprising the Hinckley and Loughborough licences, was sold to Quidem in 2012.

Licence bid failure

In 2006, the group made a bid to win the Hull licence along with six other groups.[1] The format for the Lincs bid was the same of that of Compass FM; this is thought to be because Lincs FM already overlaps the North East Lincolnshire area. The station went under the working title of "White Rose Radio" to reflect the white rose of Yorkshire. The group did not win the licence and lost out to Kingston upon Hull-based KCFM.[2] However, KCFM became part of the Lincs FM group in June 2009.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ ofcom.org.uk
  2. ↑ ofcom.org.uk Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ radiotoday.co.uk Archived 2009-06-21 at the Wayback Machine.
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