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Somer Valley FM
Somer Valley FM is a local community radio station in North East Somerset that serves Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Westfield and surrounding areas. It was launched in 2008.
The station is owned by Somer Valley Community Radio Limited, a not-for-profit organisation that exists for community benefit. The company's Board of Directors has ultimate responsibility for every aspect of the running of Somer Valley FM. There are four Directors: Yvonne Bignall, Dom Chambers, Pete Helmore, and Chris Watt.
The character of the service is shaped by the Key Commitments the station undertakes as a licensed community broadcaster
The station broadcasts on 97.5 FM, DAB Radio in Bristol and Keynsham as well as online. Its target area covers Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Westfield, Paulton, Peasedown St John, Kilmersdon, Clutton, Shoscombe, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Downside, Chilcompton, Farrington Gurney, Gurney Slade, Litton, Ston Easton, Chewton Mendip and Timsbury. Somer Valley FM is the only broadcaster focusing exclusively on this region.
In 2011 local market research company Cognisant Research carried out an audience survey for the station. This found that 48.1 per cent of people living in the station's broadcast area have heard of the station.
The station originally grew from a schools radio project organised in Somervale School in 2006. This led to the station's first broadcast on a Restricted Service Licence (RSL) in August that year. This resulted in an application for a full community license which Ofcom awarded in 2007. The station launched on the internet on 20 October 2008 and began FM transmission on 12 January 2009.
The vision for Somer Valley FM was to link education with the community providing opportunities for local people to develop their creativity, skills and confidence to produce local radio.
The idea for the station came from local councilor Chris Watt and Somervale School's Mike Gorman and Mark Kenny who saw the value to school students of learning about radio production. The original board of directors was Mark Kenny, Mike Walker and Chris Watt. Having successfully achieved funding for the project, Somervale's dilapidated former caretaker's house was redeveloped as a radio station with three "on air" studios and good production and training facilities. In July 2008 the directors appointed Dom Chambers, from a background in local radio, as the station manager. The station launched with a grant awarded by the RDA which was match funded by Bath and North East Somerset Council. In November 2008 Dom Chambers was invited to join the board of directors. .
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Somer Valley FM
Somer Valley FM is a local community radio station in North East Somerset that serves Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Westfield and surrounding areas. It was launched in 2008.
The station is owned by Somer Valley Community Radio Limited, a not-for-profit organisation that exists for community benefit. The company's Board of Directors has ultimate responsibility for every aspect of the running of Somer Valley FM. There are four Directors: Yvonne Bignall, Dom Chambers, Pete Helmore, and Chris Watt.
The character of the service is shaped by the Key Commitments the station undertakes as a licensed community broadcaster
The station broadcasts on 97.5 FM, DAB Radio in Bristol and Keynsham as well as online. Its target area covers Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Westfield, Paulton, Peasedown St John, Kilmersdon, Clutton, Shoscombe, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Downside, Chilcompton, Farrington Gurney, Gurney Slade, Litton, Ston Easton, Chewton Mendip and Timsbury. Somer Valley FM is the only broadcaster focusing exclusively on this region.
In 2011 local market research company Cognisant Research carried out an audience survey for the station. This found that 48.1 per cent of people living in the station's broadcast area have heard of the station.
The station originally grew from a schools radio project organised in Somervale School in 2006. This led to the station's first broadcast on a Restricted Service Licence (RSL) in August that year. This resulted in an application for a full community license which Ofcom awarded in 2007. The station launched on the internet on 20 October 2008 and began FM transmission on 12 January 2009.
The vision for Somer Valley FM was to link education with the community providing opportunities for local people to develop their creativity, skills and confidence to produce local radio.
The idea for the station came from local councilor Chris Watt and Somervale School's Mike Gorman and Mark Kenny who saw the value to school students of learning about radio production. The original board of directors was Mark Kenny, Mike Walker and Chris Watt. Having successfully achieved funding for the project, Somervale's dilapidated former caretaker's house was redeveloped as a radio station with three "on air" studios and good production and training facilities. In July 2008 the directors appointed Dom Chambers, from a background in local radio, as the station manager. The station launched with a grant awarded by the RDA which was match funded by Bath and North East Somerset Council. In November 2008 Dom Chambers was invited to join the board of directors. .
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