Phoenix Radio 96.7 FM (Calderdale)
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| Broadcast area | Calderdale |
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| Slogan | Life In Calderdale |
| Frequency | 96.7 FM MHz |
| First air date | 10 December 2007 |
| Format | Community-based |
| Transmitter coordinates | 53°42′49″N 1°50′45″W / 53.7137°N 1.8459°WCoordinates: 53°42′49″N 1°50′45″W / 53.7137°N 1.8459°W |
| Owner | Phoenix Radio Limited |
| Website | www.phoenixfm.co.uk |
Phoenix Radio 96.7 FM is a local radio station based in Halifax, in West Yorkshire, England. It broadcasts on the FM frequency, 24 hours a day to the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, and the surrounding areas and around the world online. It is owned and run by Phoenix Radio Ltd, which has also previously held six Restricted Service Licences (RSLs) in the past. It was awarded its full-time licence by OFCOM, thus becoming, on 10 December 2007, Calderdale's first and only local radio station.
Given the full name of the station, Phoenix Radio 96.7 FM, various interchangeable names are also used, Phoenix FM, Phoenix Radio, Phoenix 96.7 FM and 96.7 Phoenix FM.
Phoenix Radio 96.7FM has more than one slogan, slogans include: 'Life In Calderdale' , 'The Sound Of Calderdale' , 'Brewed To Local Taste' and 'Your Music, Your Talk, Your Life' . The station also broadcasts RDS text. The RDS name is PHOENIX.
Since its conception in 1998, Phoenix Radio 96.7 FM has had six broadcasts over the years on restricted service licences. Over that period of time of RSLs it had been broadcasting on two differing frequencies 106.2 FM and 107.2 FM.
In 2005, Phoenix Radio Limited was awarded a full-time license to broadcast on the 96.7 FM frequency, as a local radio station with a format that is community-based. Phoenix Radio is a member of the Community Radio Association whose code of practice is to take positive action to ensure that the needs of the listening audience is met through selective programme scheduling and by listening and acting on what the audience tells the station what they want from the local medium .
The station was launched on Monday 10 December 2007 [2], and officially opened by the Mayor of Calderdale. The first programme being Breakfast at 7am.
The studios are based in the Dean Clough complex in Halifax, Calderdale. The transmitter that Phoenix Radio 96.7 FM uses is sited at the local TV relay on Beacon Hill, Bank Top, West Yorkshire. The station broadcasts to Calderdale and the FM signal can be reached in the surrounding areas of Halifax, south Bradford, north Kirklees and south-western Leeds.
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