Real Radio (Wales)
Real Radio (Wales)
Wales' Best Variety of Music
Discover The Real You
Wales' Biggest Commercial Radio Station |
| Broadcast area |
Wales |
| Frequency |
Multiple
share = 10.4% |
| First air date |
October 2000 |
| Format |
Hot AC |
| Audience share |
(September 2009, [1]) |
| Owner |
GMG Radio |
| Website |
Real Radio Wales |
Real Radio Wales is a Regional Radio station owned and operated by GMG Radio and forming part of the Real Radio network. The station broadcasts from studios at Morganstown in Cardiff on various FM frequencies, DAB via the MXR Severn Estuary multiplex and across the UK on digital satellite TV (Sky Digital channel 0146).
Background
The station was launched in October 2000, a year after the GMG Group won its first broadcast licence - after an introduction by Tom Jones, the station's founding managing director John Myers introduced the song A Star is Born. In December 2008, GMG was awarded a FM licence to launch Real Radio in North and Mid Wales. Following an agreed format change request, the existing South Wales service has been rolled out to the new coverage area. The station began broadcasting on its North and Mid Wales frequencies at 8am on Tuesday 4 January 2011.
Real Radio Wales is a music and speech station, playing a Hot AC format of classic, contemporary and current music from the 1960s onwards.
The station also carries news bulletins every hour between the hours of 6am and 7pm weekdays and from 6am to 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays (including half-hour headlines at breakfast and drivetime) from Cardiff. Pre-recorded Welsh bulletins air from the Guardian Media Group's Manchester newsroom during the hours of 8pm and midnight on weekdays from 3pm to 11pm at weekends. Overnight bulletins (midnight- 5am) and most bulletins on bank holidays are provided by Sky News through IRN.
Presenters
Local presenters
- Steve Clarke (Sunday afternoons)
- Dave Brookes (Home Time / The Real Radio Sports Phone-In / Real Sport)
- Jason Harrold (Weekday mornings, Saturday mornings/lunchtime)
- Simon Hawkins (Weekend breakfast)
- Simon Jagger (Weekday breakfast)
- Helen Sweetland (Weekday afternoons, Sunday mornings)
- Chris Wood (Weekday breakfast)
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Networked/syndicated presenters
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Former presenters
FM frequencies
- 88 FM - Wrexham & Rhosllannerchrugog
- 102.3 FM - Pontypridd, Treforest & Nantgarw
- 102.8 FM - Montgomery, Welshpool & Llanymynech
- 105.2 FM - Carmarthenshire/Abergavenny
- 105.4 FM - Cardiff, Barry & Bridgend
- 105.7 FM - North Wales Coast/Pembrokeshire
- 105.9 FM - Merthyr Tydfil/Newport
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- 106 FM - Newtown, Llandinam & Llanidloes/Carmarthen/Swansea & Neath Port Talbot
- 106.1 FM - Ebbw Vale
- 106.2 FM - Fishguard & Goodwick
- 106.9 FM - The Vale of Clwyd
- 107.2 FM - Anglesey & Gwynedd
- 107.3 FM - Prestatyn/Bargoed, Gelligaer & Blackwood
- 107.7 FM - Ceredigion
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