AHBS Community Radio

AHBS Hospital Radio is a hospital radio station serving the town of Ashford, Kent which launched on December 26, 1971.

AHBS Ashford Hospital Broadcasting Service
Broadcast areaAshford, Kent
Slogan"Around the wards, around the clock", "Ashford's Local"
Frequency107.1 MHz
First air date26 December 1971
Websitewww.ahbs.org.uk

The station broadcasts 24 hours a day around the wards of the William Harvey Hospital and on 107.1 FM Radio Ashford. The station is funded entirely by grants, donations and subscriptions.

Broadcasting

The existing hospital station and studios are based at the William Harvey Hospital in Kennington.[1][2]

History

AHBS (Ashford Hospital Broadcasting Service) has been broadcasting hospital radio to Ashford's hospitals since 1971.[3] Radio Ashford Limited applied for a licence to operate a community station for Ashford, and were granted the new community station licence by OFCOM in May 2009 which includes some of the AHBS programmes.[4]

The AHBS volunteers produced the weekend breakfast shows up until October 2017 when paid presenters from Radio Ashford took over the slot with a sponsored show.

References
  1. "Webbo's World: Life at 50". Folkestone Herald. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. "Take part and help to fund local radio". Ashford Herald. 6 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. AHBS Hospital Radio Archived September 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Three community radio licence awards: May 2009 Archived December 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

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