Radio Maldwyn

Radio Maldwyn - The Magic 756
Broadcast area Mid Wales, western Shropshire, north western Herefordshire (approximately; signal is prominent in some areas of North East Wales)
Frequency 756 kHz AM/397 metres Medium Wave Band
First air date Thursday, 1 July, 1993
Format Classic Hits
Transmitter coordinates 52°31′00″N 3°16′37″W / 52.5168°N 3.2770°WCoordinates: 52°31′00″N 3°16′37″W / 52.5168°N 3.2770°W
Owner Murfin Music International/Community Co-Operative
Website http://www.magic756.net

Radio Maldwyn - The Magic 756 was a local commercial radio station serving Mid Wales and the English border counties. Their transmitter site is currently based a few miles outside of Newtown, Powys.

History

The station began broadcasting at 07.56 am on Thursday, 1 July 1993. The original Station Manager and Programme Controller was John Barnes, the original Sales Manager was Lisa Price.

Live programmes initially ran between 0700 - 1900, with the Supergold service from the Chiltern Radio Network overnight. The station increased local hours to 2100 a few months after going on air. Maldwyn was the only station outside the Chiltern-owned stations that made full use of the automation service available on Supergold to insert local news, commercials and features within network programming. Maldwyn broadcast the Network News service provided by Chiltern Radio before switching to IRN when Network News closed.

Originally a local station formed as a community co-operative, Radio Maldwyn became a Limited Company in the late 1990s, with original shareholders having 51% of the new company and 49% owned by Murfin Music International, owners of Sunshine 855 in Ludlow, South Shropshire and Sunshine FM in Hereford and Monmouth.

It was decided that in November 2010 the station was to close;[1] it was replaced by Radio Hafren.[2]


Presenters
  • Mike Baker (Baker was involved with Radio Caroline, was a launch engineer at Capital Radio London and was on morethan40.co.uk. He died aged 65 on 23 December 2013)
  • Paul Kay (Track 756 - The Album Download)
  • Leon Tippler (Tippler was involved with Radio 827, Radio Atlantis and Sunshine 855. He died on 9 June 2013, aged 70.)
  • Gordon Davies (Country Music Show)
  • Tony Wickham (Jazz World)
  • Chris Lewis (Interference)

Former presenters

  • Lee Thompson
  • Adrian Bodenham
  • John Barnes (now at BBC Radio Lancashire)
  • Tony Paul (now on Radio Caroline)
  • Mark Williams
  • Keith Middleton (now at BBC Local Radio in the Midlands)
  • Martin Kaye (later became Head of Sales)
  • Jonathan Breeze
  • Ken Whittaker (Sports Oracle)
  • Ashley Owen
  • Alan Gooden
  • Emily Sandeman
  • Chris Corfield
  • DJ Rid (DJ Rid In The Mix)
  • Simeon D. Berends (Saturday Night Pre-Party and newsreader)
  • Kevin Brown (Brown at Breakfast)
  • Steve Marriott
  • JJ (Jones The Phones)
  • Mark Edwards (now at Sunshine Radio 106.2 Hereford and Monmouth)
  • Nick Jones (now at Sunshine 855)
  • John Buckley
  • Steve Edge
  • Mike Rumsby
  • Jason Lafave (Nu Metal Fusion)
  • Trevor French - Now at Radio 879, Shropshire)
  • Graham Oldham - Now at Radio 879, Shropshire
  • Iain Brown
  • Anna Cooperwhite
  • Mick Bates (Farming Programme)
  • Bill Hopkins (Anything Goes)
  • Hoppy (Christmas Day programmes)
  • Martin Davies

External links

References

  1. ↑ Radio Maldwyn set to close?
  2. ↑ Maldwyn replaced by Hafren