Môn FM
Môn FM is a bilingual community radio station serving Anglesey and northern parts of Gwynedd. The station broadcasts from studios in Llangefni town centre on 102.5 FM and online via the station's website.
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| City | Llangefni |
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| Broadcast area | Anglesey and north Gwynedd |
| Slogan | Your island, your voice/ Eich ynys, eich llais |
| Frequency | 102.5 FM MHz, Online |
| First air date | 12 July 2014 |
| Format | Community: music and talk |
| Website | MônFM |
MônFM broadcasts around 100 hours a week of locally-oriented music and speech programming in English and Welsh, including local news, current affairs, sports, specialist music shows and events coverage.
The station airs hourly national news bulletins produced by Sky News Radio in London 24 hours a day with local news bulletins airing on weekday afternoons. Apart from Sky News bulletins, all of MônFM's programming is produced and presented locally by volunteers.
After an RSL transmission in March 2012 for the Llangefni area,[1] the station continued to produce online output before being granted a full-time licence in August 2013, allowing MônFM to broadcast across most of the island via a transmitter at Gwalchmai.[2] The station's FM signal also extends to cover large parts of north Gwynedd on the mainland.
Full-time broadcasting on 102.5 FM and online began at 8am on Saturday 12 July 2014.
In March 2019, the broadcast regulator OFCOM extended the station's FM licence for a further five years.[3] In August 2019, OFCOM granted permission for MônFM to expand its FM coverage area by building two relay transmitters.[4]
References
- Anglesey radio station MônFM hopes for permanent Ofcom licence following FM success, Daily Post, 14 March 2012
- Anglesey radio station gets go-ahead Archived 2014-07-18 at Archive.today, North Wales Pioneer, 22 August 2013
- Five more years: MônFM wins licence renewal, monfm.net, 21 March 2019
- MônFM to expand FM coverage, monfm.net, 6 August 2019