TFM Radio
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| City | Newcastle |
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| Broadcast area |
County Durham Tees Valley North Yorkshire |
| Branding | Your Music, Your Life |
| Frequency |
FM: 96.6 MHz RDS: TFM DAB: 11B |
| First air date | 24 June 1975 |
| Format | CHR |
| Audience share | 5.4% (December 2016, RAJAR) |
| Owner | Bauer Radio |
| Sister stations |
TFM 2 TFM 3 |
| Webcast | Radioplayer |
| Website | planetradio.co.uk/tfm/ |
TFM is a local radio station owned and operated by Bauer Radio as part of the City 1 network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire from studios in Newcastle.
The station currently broadcasts on 96.6 FM, DAB and online with DAB services provided by Bauer Digital. In April 2013, the station was merged with Metro Radio in Newcastle.
From the start of broadcasting in 1975, TFM (then known as Radio Tees) was owned by Sound Broadcasting (Teesside) Ltd and originally broadcast on 257 Medium Wave only, with a later launch on 95 VHF. After a government radio frequency re shuffle in the mid-1980s, the FM frequency was swapped with BBC Radio Cleveland and Radio Tees shifted to 96.6 FM in 1986. In 1988 Radio Tees was relaunched as TFM 96.6 after being taken over by Newcastle upon Tyne based Metro Radio Group. Shortly after this, a new Medium Wave station called Great North Radio (GNR) was launched after broadcasting rules meant TFM could not broadcast on both FM and Medium Wave.
In the late 1990s, TFM was taken over by EMAP along with the rest of the Metro Radio Group stations and integrated into EMAP's Big City Group. Shortly after this the station was re branded 96.6 TFM. In July 2007, TFM was rebranded TFM Radio and re adopted the slogan Today's Favourite Music which had first been used in the late 1990s.
In 2008, EMAP, a publicly listed company, was then bought by Bauer Media, a privately owned German based family business, the radio group was renamed Bauer Place. On 8 April 2013 the station reverted to TFM with the same slogan as Metro Radio Non-Stop Hits and More Music Variety. The RDS name was again changed to "TFM" the end of July 2013.
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