| City of license | Thornaby-on-Tees |
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| Broadcast area | Tees Valley |
| Branding | Today's Favourite Music |
| Frequency | 96.6 MHz (RDS Name TFMradio) |
| First air date | 24 June 1975 |
| Format | Contemporary Hit Radio |
| Audience share | 10.3% (March 2011, [1]) |
| Owner | Bauer Radio |
| Sister stations | CFM Radio Hallam FM Key 103 Metro Radio Radio City 96.7 96.3 Radio Aire 97.4 Rock FM 96.9 Viking FM |
| Webcast | whatsON |
| Website | TFM Radio |
TFM Radio is a Thornaby-on-Tees based Independent Local Radio station. Launched in June 1975 as Radio Tees, with the callsign "You've got a friend on 257" it was the first independent local radio station serving the area of the Tees Valley with parts of North Yorkshire and County Durham. The station currently broadcasts on 96.6 FM, DAB and online with DAB services provided by Bauer Digital. The station is owned and operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations.
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For a short time, the radio station was part of the Newcastle upon Tyne based Metro Radio group, before being taken over by EMAP. After the Metro Radio group was taken over, TFM, along with the other sister stations, was integrated into EMAP's Big City Network, and renamed 96.6 TFM to express the FM frequency which the station is broadcast on. EMAP, a publicly listed plc's media and magazine arms were bought by Bauer Media, a privately owned German based family business in 2008. 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:Demand and overnights are produced by Key 103 in Manchester. The Vodafone Big Top 40 is produced by Global Radio at it's London studios for broadcast on over 140 commercial radio stations across the UK. Saturday Night Party is produced by Metro Radio in Newcastle and also broadcasts on CFM Radio. All other output is produced locally from TFM's Thornaby-on-Tees studios.
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TFM Radio has three journalists based at their Stockton-on-Tees studios; localised news bulletins are broadcast on the hour between 0600 and 1800 weekdays, 0700 to 1300 on Saturday and 0800 to 1300 on Sunday.[3] National news bulletins are outsourced from Sky News Radio and are simulcasted each hour between 0100 to 0500 everyday.
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