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Free Radio Birmingham

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Free Radio Birmingham (formerly BRMB) is an Independent Local Radio station serving Birmingham and surrounding areas. [1]

89 relations: Absolute Radio, Acorns Children's Hospice, Adrian Juste, Alpha Television, Associated British Corporation, Associated Television, Aston, Aston Villa F.C., Bauer Media Group, Bauer Radio, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Devon, BBC WM, Birmingham, Birmingham City F.C., Brindleyplace, Broad Street, Birmingham, Bupa, Call sign, Capital London, Carlos (DJ), Charlie Jordan (DJ), Classic FM (UK), Contemporary hit radio, Digital audio broadcasting, Ed Doolan, Ed Nell, Effective radiated power, Elliott Webb, FM broadcasting, Free Radio Coventry & Warwickshire, Free Radio Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country, Frequency modulation, GCap Media, Gem 106, Global (company), Gold (radio), Graeme Smith (radio presenter), Graham Torrington, Gravelly Hill Interchange, Great Birmingham Run, Harriet Scott (broadcaster), Heart (radio network), Heart North West, Hertz, Hits Radio, Hits Radio Network, Ian Crocker (commentator), ..., Independent Local Radio, ITV (TV network), James Merritt, Jeremy Kyle, Jo Russell, John Howard, Lauren Crace, LBC, Leicester Sound, Les Ross, Lloyds Development Capital, London, Magic 105.4 FM, Margherita Taylor, Mark Crossley (broadcaster), Medium wave, Midlands Radio, Orion Media, Paul Hollins, Phil Riley, Phil Upton, Radio Aire, Radio Clyde, Robin Banks, Rock FM, Sam & Mark, Sky News Radio, Smooth Radio, Sutton Coldfield transmitting station, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Official Vodafone Big Top 40, Tim Shaw (presenter), Tom Binns, Tony Butler (broadcaster), Trent FM, Watt, West Midlands (county), Xtra AM. Expand index (39 more) »

Absolute Radio

Absolute Radio (originally Virgin Radio) is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations.

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Acorns Children's Hospice

Acorns Children's Hospice Trust is a registered charity, offering a network of care and support to life-limited and life-threatened children and their families across the heart of England.

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Adrian Juste

Adrian Juste (born 21 April 1947, Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England) is an English disc jockey and radio presenter who had a Saturday lunchtime programme on BBC Radio 1 from 1978 to 1994.

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Alpha Television

Alpha Television was a British limited company which operated television studios in Aston, Birmingham.

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Associated British Corporation

The Associated British Corporation (otherwise known as ABC Television) was one of a number of commercial television companies established in the United Kingdom during the 1950s by cinema chain companies, in an attempt to safeguard their business by becoming involved with television, which was taking away their cinema audiences.

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Associated Television

Associated Television (ATV), a former British television company, was awarded the franchise by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide the Independent Television service at weekends for the London region.

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Aston

Aston is a ward of Central Birmingham, England.

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Aston Villa F.C.

Aston Villa Football Club (nicknamed Villa, The Villa, The Villans and The Lions) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England.

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Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group is a European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world.

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Bauer Radio

Bauer Radio is a UK-based radio division of the Bauer Media Group.

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BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

BBC Coventry and Warwickshire is the BBC Local Radio service serving the City of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire.

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BBC Hereford & Worcester

BBC Hereford and Worcester is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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BBC Radio Devon

BBC Radio Devon is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Devon.

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BBC WM

BBC WM 95.6 (previously BBC Radio WM) is the BBC Local Radio service serving the West Midlands conurbation and parts of south Staffordshire, operated by BBC Birmingham.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham City F.C.

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England.

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Brindleyplace

Brindleyplace is a large mixed-use canalside development, in the Westside district of Birmingham, England.

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Broad Street, Birmingham

Broad Street is a major thoroughfare and popular nightspot centre Birmingham City Centre, United Kingdom.

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Bupa

Bupa is an international healthcare group, with its origins and headquarters in the United Kingdom but now serving 32 million customers in 190 countries.

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Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique designation for a transmitter station.

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Capital London

Capital London is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network.

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Carlos (DJ)

Carl Emms (born 31 December 1966, Swindon Wiltshire), known professionally as Carlos is a British radio presenter and disc jockey.

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Charlie Jordan (DJ)

Charlie Jordan is a British radio presenter, who has presented on stations such as BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BRMB and LBC.

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Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM (stylised as Classic M) is one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations.

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Contemporary hit radio

Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, and the Philippines, that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the top 40 music charts.

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Digital audio broadcasting

Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio standard for broadcasting digital audio radio services, used in many countries across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.

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Ed Doolan

Edwin Myer Doolan MBE (20 July 1941 – 16 January 2018) was an Australian born naturalised British radio presenter who was a veteran of Birmingham's first commercial radio station BRMB, and subsequently the BBC.

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Ed Nell

Edward Ian Nell (born 6 August 1978 in Norwich, Norfolk, England) is a British DJ, known as Ed Nell or Nelly.

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Effective radiated power

Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter.

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Elliott Webb

Elliott Webb (born 15 April 1971 in Worcester) is an English radio presenter.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology.

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Free Radio Coventry & Warwickshire

Free Radio Coventry & Warwickshire (formerly Mercia Sound, then Mercia) is an Independent Local Radio station serving Coventry and Warwickshire, England.

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Free Radio Herefordshire & Worcestershire

Free Radio Herefordshire & Worcestershire (formerly Radio Wyvern) is an Independent Local Radio station serving Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country

Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country (previously known as Beacon Radio), is an Independent Local Radio station serving Shropshire and the Black Country in the West Midlands region of England.

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Frequency modulation

In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.

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GCap Media

GCap Media was a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group.

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Gem 106

Gem 106 is an English regional radio station broadcasting to the East Midlands, owned and operated by Bauer Radio. The station is transmitted from the Copt Oak transmitter close to the M1 north of Leicester in the National Forest.

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Global (company)

Global (also known as Global Media & Entertainment) is a British media company formed in 2007, which owns a large number of radio stations across the country.

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Gold (radio)

Gold is a network of oldies radio stations which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold Network in August 2007.

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Graeme Smith (radio presenter)

Graeme Smith is a British broadcaster born in Liverpool, England.

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Graham Torrington

Graham Torrington (born 1961 in Birmingham, England) is a British radio presenter and broadcaster.

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Gravelly Hill Interchange

Gravelly Hill Interchange, better known throughout the UK by its nickname Spaghetti Junction, is junction 6 of the M6 motorway where it meets the A38(M) Aston Expressway in the Gravelly Hill area of Birmingham, England.

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Great Birmingham Run

The Great Birmingham Run is an annual half marathon road running event held in Birmingham, UK in October.

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Harriet Scott (broadcaster)

Harriet Scott (born 23 January 1972) is a British radio presenter with Magic FM, presenting the Weekday Breakfast show with Ronan Keating.

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Heart (radio network)

Heart is a radio network of 22 adult contemporary local stations operated by Global in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming.

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Heart North West

Heart North West is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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Hits Radio

Hits Radio (formerly Key 103 and Piccadilly Radio) is a commercial radio station, broadcasting to Greater Manchester on 103 FM & DAB and across the UK on digital platforms.

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Hits Radio Network

The Hits Radio Network is a network of 20 CHR local radio stations in Northern England, Scotland and the West Midlands, owned and operated by Bauer Radio.

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Ian Crocker (commentator)

Ian Crocker is a football commentator who works for Sky Sports.

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Independent Local Radio

Independent Local Radio is the collective name given to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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James Merritt

James Merritt, born December 22, 1952, is a U.S. religious leader and was President of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2000 to 2002.

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Jeremy Kyle

Jeremy Kyle (born 7 July 1965), also referred to as Jezza, is an English television and radio presenter, best known for hosting the tabloid talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV since 2005.

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Jo Russell

Jo Russell is an English radio presenter, currently working for Free Radio and Gem 106.

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John Howard

John Winston Howard, (born 26 July 1939) is a former Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2007.

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Lauren Crace

Lauren Rose Crace (born 25 May 1986) is an English actress and radio presenter, best known for playing Danielle Jones in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from August 2008 to April 2009.

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LBC

LBC (originally the London Broadcasting Company) is a London-based national talk and phone-in radio station.

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Leicester Sound

Leicester Sound was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Leicestershire.

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Les Ross

Les Ross, MBE (born Leslie Meakin on 7 February 1949 in Birmingham) is a British disc jockey and long established personality in the West Midlands.

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Lloyds Development Capital

Lloyds Development Capital (Holdings) Limited (LDC), is a mid-market private equity house and subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, established in 1981 as Lloyds Development Capital Limited.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Magic 105.4 FM

Magic Radio is an adult contemporary Independent Local Radio and national radio station based in London owned by Bauer Radio.

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Margherita Taylor

Margherita Taylor (born 26 July 1972) is an English TV and radio presenter.

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Mark Crossley (broadcaster)

Mark Crossley (born 22 April 1987) is an English Radio DJ, best known for hosting the evening show on national UK station Absolute Radio.

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Medium wave

Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting.

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Midlands Radio

Midlands Radio plc was an independent radio operator, which operated seven radio licences in Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and surrounding areas in the United Kingdom.

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Orion Media

Orion Media was a UK commercial radio group, founded in 2009 after a management buy-in, with backing from Lloyds Development Capital.

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Paul Hollins

Paul Hollins is a British radio presenter who can currently be heard on Smooth Radio.

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Phil Riley

Phil Riley was Chief Executive of Chrysalis Radio from June 1999 to July 2007, having played a major role in establishing Chrysalis Radio as one of the leading new entrants in the UK radio industry.

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Phil Upton

Phil Upton (born 9 October 1966 in Birmingham, England) is a British radio presenter in the West Midlands region.

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Radio Aire

Radio Aire is an Independent Local Radio station serving Leeds and West Yorkshire.

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Radio Clyde

Radio Clyde is a group of two Independent Local Radio stations serving Glasgow and West Central Scotland.

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Robin Banks

Robin Banks (born 22 March 1972) is a TV presenter and radio DJ originally from Kilkenny, Ireland.

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Rock FM

Rock FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Lancashire, North West England and some parts of North Wales.

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Sam & Mark

Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes, known collectively as Sam & Mark, or simply Smark, are an English popular music and television presenting duo.

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Sky News Radio

Sky News Radio is the radio arm of the Sky News, owned by Sky UK.

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Smooth Radio

Smooth Radio is a network of adult contemporary local radio stations broadcasting on FM and MW stations in the United Kingdom.

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Sutton Coldfield transmitting station

The Sutton Coldfield transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located in Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham, England.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Official Vodafone Big Top 40

The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 is a radio chart show hosted by Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob.

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Tim Shaw (presenter)

Tim Shaw (born 9 June 1974 in Sheffield, Yorkshire) is a British radio host, TV presenter and engineer.

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Tom Binns

Christopher Thomas "Tom" Binns is a British writer, actor, comic, television presenter and radio presenter.

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Tony Butler (broadcaster)

Tony Butler (born 15 May 1935) is a retired Birmingham based UK sports broadcaster and was one of the first stars of local radio in Britain, known for a distinctive local accent and sometimes controversial style.

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Trent FM

Trent FM was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Nottinghamshire.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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Xtra AM

Xtra AM was a United Kingdom radio station which was on the air between 1989 and 1998.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Radio_Birmingham

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