106.9 West Hull FM
| Broadcast area | West Hull, and surrounding areas |
|---|---|
| Slogan | Your Community, your Station |
| Frequency | 106.9FM, online and via TuneIn app |
| First air date | 26 March 2007 |
| Format | Popular Music and Local Based Speech |
| Website | www |
106.9 West Hull FM formerly known as (WHCR FM) West Hull Community Radio, is a local community radio station, which launched in 2007, as the first community station in the city of Kingston upon Hull, England.[1] It serves the areas of West Hull, and surrounding towns and villages of Anlaby, Cottingham, Hessle and Willerby with an adult population of over 90,000. It aims to promote local community events in particular charitable events, inform listeners of local news particularly focusing on West Hull, along with a wider choice of music than any other station in the area and offering adverting/sponsorship which is affordable for small local businesses.
The station is staffed almost entirely by volunteers supported by a full-time paid station manager; Michael Tuton, who was appointed in December 2013.
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About
The station gears its music policy from the music of 1950's to present-day releases during daytime hours. It plays a broad mix during the evening through a diverse range specialist music shows focusing on Country, Rock, 1980's Pop, Jazz, Classical and Local Music. With the relatively recent increase in the popularity of the local music scene, partially down to a large push by other local radio stations, the station has also in 2012 started playing local music too and others like BBC Radio Humberside have followed suit.
West Hull FM's output focuses on local news, community events via a "What's On Guide" and sports, with regular updates on its daytime programmes, generally between 8am and 5pm on weekdays and 9am to 12 noon on the weekend. The station works on an average 60% music - 40% speech principle with each show having slightly different amounts of these.[2]
The West Hull-based station after having originally launched in the Goodwin Centre building in Icehouse Road moved in 2009 to a studio in Anlaby Road. More recently the station completed their most recent studio-move on 19 October 2012 to a new purpose built studio in the Darley's building, formerly a public house on Porter Street.[citation needed]
Between late 2013 and early 2014 the station saw a large shift in management and gradually a large number of staff and volunteers left the company after internal disagreements between many of the volunteers and paid management. Many of them have since been involved in the startups of two new radio stations in East Yorkshire, Beverley FM based in Beverley and Hull Kingston Radio based in East Hull.
In October 2014, the station was rebranded as 106.9 West Hull FM, although the station's broadcast on 106.9FM in Hull still bares the handle 'WHCR FM'. With its new tagline 'Your Community, Your Station', the aim of the newly re-branded station was to provide a stronger focus on the local community with the introduction of new presenters and locally made programmes. This included The Community Show with Greg Harman; a speech based programme focusing on the local charitable and voluntary sector, a new live Saturday morning show presented by Simon Williams, a weekly live LGBT discussion programme called 'Loud & Proud' on Tuesday evenings and a Rock music programme on Thursday evenings.
A new website was also launched at the same time which allows people to listen to the station live online in addition to their allocated FM frequency in the local area. The station's web stream can be found in the TuneIn directory. The station has over 50 Twitter followers.
Since 2015 they have also broadcast an specialist local music programme "The Hull Music Archieve Radio Show" plays local acts from across the years and also in the same year an LGBT news and discussion programme called "Loud & Proud" began, it's broadcast live and is the only of its kind in the region and also Greg Harman's "The Community Show" with interviews and information supporting the voluntary and charitable sectors in Hull.
In 2015 the station worked with BBC Radio Humberside as part of BBC Radio's project with community radio to produce news pieces about local stories like Hull's 'City of Culture' preparations. News pieces were played on both stations.
In 2016 the station formed a partnership with HullFire radio based student radio station (formerly Jam 1575AM) at Hull University. Their 'Screen One' film review and 'World Noise' world music programmes have been broadcast on the station since February 2016.
Staff
- Michael Tuton (Station Manager)[1]
- Mike Woodhouse (Mid Morning Live Presenter, Head of Sales)[1]
- Ben Steele (Events Presenter) [1]
- DJ Redloz (Presenter - Full Flava Connection Show - Urban music Wednesday nights)
- James Bowers (Daytime Presenter/Researcher. Also involved in Hull 2017 Report with BBC)[1]
- Mike Andrews (Breakfast Presenter- Weekdays)[1]
- Tony Sweeney (Daytime Presenter & Totally 80's Show)[1]
- Nick James (Sunday Morning Presenter- Live 9am to 12 noon)
- Greg Harman (The Community Show Presenter- Live Thursdays at 11am)[1]
- Simon Williams (Radio Presenter) (Weekend Presenter, Commercial radio veteran, Live on Saturdays 9am to 12 noon)[1]
- Jools (A to Z of pop and Friday Morning's live, currently studying Journalism at Hull University)
- Richard Ellarby (Presenter, Mid Morning Live Tuesdays & Wake Up West Hull Weekend Edition)[1]
- Ben Steele (Events Presenter) [1]
- DJ Redloz (Presenter - Full Flava Connection Show - Urban music Wednesday nights)
- Stuart Miles (Presenter - 'Highway To Hull'- Rock Show, Thursday evenings)[1]
- Max Roberts (The Folk Hour Presenter; Monday 7pm)[1]
- Danny Norton (Presenter 'Loud And Proud' programme- Tuesdays 7-9pm)[1]
- Sarah Curry (Co-Presenter of 'Loud & Proud') [1]
- Peter Fairhead (Country Show Presenter- Saturday afternoons)[1]
- David 'G' Godfrey (The Jazz Show Presenter)[1]
- Richard Gray (Presenter - 'Classical Choice' - Classical Music Programme)
- Tom Robinson (Daytime Presenter)[1]
- John Wiles (Presenter joined October 2015, formerly chairman of Kingstown Radio)
- Richard Ellarby (Presenter, Mid Morning Live Tuesdays & Wake Up West Hull Weekend Edition)[1]
- Mandy Whittles (Producer & Tech Support)
- Nick Boldock (Presenter The Hull Music Archive Radio Show: April 2015 onwards)
- Camilla Brokenshire and Vicky Berry (World Noise produced by Hull Fire Radio at University of Hull)
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