Cambridge 105
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| City | Cambridge |
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| Broadcast area | Cambridgeshire: FM Worldwide: Internet Radio |
| Slogan | Community Radio in your City |
| Frequency |
FM: 105 MHz, DAB: 7D RDS: Camb_105 |
| First air date | 19 July 2010 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Webcast |
Web Player Stream URL (MP3 128k) |
| Website | cambridge105 |
Cambridge 105 is the community radio station for the city of Cambridge. A volunteer-run, community-owned, not-for-profit organisation. Cambridge 105 provides a broadcast voice for Cambridge, broadcasting live on 105FM, online and DAB Digital Radio seven days a week.
In 1998, a group of volunteers began Cambridge Café Radio as a community radio station on a licence that was eventually purchased by the UKRD Group to become Star Radio.
In March 2004 Karl Hartland and Lucy Clifton began an internet radio station that they called 209radio, named after their address 209 Campkin Road in Cambridge. Karl presented a regular music show called Irreducible Representation whose reputation grew until others offered to contribute or present similar shows. Within a few months there were 20 such shows each week with the station on air during weeknights and weekends, with contributors eventually ranging from members of the homeless community to the elderly and a group of 14-year-old girls.
Realising the continuing potential of a community radio station to the city of Cambridge, they applied for an Ofcom licence, and in 2007 were granted an FM broadcast licence. The studio was moved from Karl and Lucy's living room to the Citylife offices (vacated Star Radio and Red TV studios) in Sturton Street and the station went live on 105.0 MHz in October 2007.
Although run almost entirely by volunteers (with three paid staff members), over the next two years, the station struggled to raise the £60,000 required to stay on air and eventually in February 2010, despite a strong following around the city, 209radio ceased broadcasting. Rather than return the licence to Ofcom, the team voted to transfer the licence to a new team keen to continue a community radio station in Cambridge.
Cambridge 105 made its first broadcast on 19 July 2010 immediately following the closure of the previous community station 209radio. Ofcom required Cambridge 105 to start broadcasting immediately upon receipt of the licence. Notification was received on the afternoon of Monday 18 July that the transfer would occur the following day. Equipment was set up in the house of then, station director Axel Minet and on the evening of 19 July, the station debuted with Sammy B-Side spinning some late night hip-hop.
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