Radio City 96.7
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| City | Liverpool |
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| Broadcast area | Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales |
| Slogan | Your Music, Your Life |
| Frequency |
FM: 96.7 MHz DAB: 11B |
| First air date | 21 October 1974 |
| Format | CHR/Pop |
| Audience share | 8.5% (June 2014, RAJAR) |
| Owner | Bauer Radio |
| Sister stations |
Radio City 2 Radio City 3 Radio City Talk |
| Webcast | Radio City Player |
| Website | planetradio |
Coordinates: 53°24′22″N 2°58′55″W / 53.4062°N 2.9819°W
Radio City (previously known as 96.7 City FM and 194 Radio City) is a British Independent Local Radio station, based in Liverpool, and serving Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's City 1 network of stations.
After the introduction of the Sound Broadcasting Act in 1972 which allowed the legal operation of commercial radio in the UK, in 1974, Radio City (Sound of Merseyside) Ltd won the contract to broadcast the Independent Local Radio station for Liverpool and its surrounding areas, with studios originally based in Stanley Street in Liverpool City Centre.
194 Radio City began broadcasting at 5.58am on 21 October 1974, with an announcement by its founding managing director Terry Smith (It's two minutes to six on Monday October 21st 1974. For the very first time, this is 194 Radio City broadcasting to Merseyside). The first song to be played on the station was Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life". As reflected in the name, the station originally broadcast on 1548 kHz AM, then known as 194 metres medium wave, from a transmitter at Rainford. The station was also given an FM frequency of 96.7 MHz, but did not begin broadcasting on FM until a few months later, after the transmitter was vandalised. In the early days of Marcher Sound, the evening programmes of the station were simulcasted to the fledgling station, so for a period in the 1980s, Radio City had in theory, four frequencies (Marcher Sound aired on 95.4 MHz and 1260 kHz).
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