GTFM
City of license | Pontypridd |
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Broadcast area | Pontypridd and surrounding areas |
Slogan | Playing the music of your life |
Frequency | 107.9 MHz, Online |
First air date | 24 May 2002 |
Format | Community: music and talk |
Language(s) | English, Welsh |
Owner | GTFM (South Wales) Ltd. |
Website | GTFM |
GTFM is a community radio station serving Pontypridd and surrounding areas of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales. The station broadcasts locally on 107.9 FM and online via the station's website, from studios and offices on Pinewood Avenue in Rhydyfelin, near Pontypridd.
Initially formed in 1999 for a series of month-long RSL broadcasts, GTFM became the first community radio station in Wales when the station commenced permanent broadcasting on 24 May 2002 as part of the Radio Authority's Access Radio pilot in 15 areas of the UK. The station was later granted a full-time licence by OFCOM and moved its FM frequency from 106.9 FM to 107.9 FM in July 2007.
Programming
The majority of GTFM's output consists of locally produced programming including hourly local news bulletins, peak time travel updates and regular sports coverage, plus local features & interviews and specialist programming at evenings and on weekends.
The station also broadcasts Welsh language programmes three days a week alongside a weekday news bulletin from 3pm simulcast from BBC Radio Cymru. National bulletins from Sky News Radio in London are also broadcast during off-peak hours.
Management Committee
- Alun Jones (Chair)
- Phil Rickards
- Martyn Morgan
- Steve Carter
Day-to-day Management
- Terry Mann (Station Manager since April 2007)
- Wendy Allsop (Administrator/Finance Manager since Feb 2007)
- Mark Andrews (Promotions Co-ordinator)
- Gavin Powell (Promotions and Operations Assistant)
Presenters
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