Tower FM
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| Broadcast area | Bolton & Bury |
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| Frequency | 107.4 MHz |
| First air date | 20 March 1999 |
| Format | Adult Contemporary |
| Audience share | 5.4% (March 2010, ) |
| Owner | UTV Radio |
Tower FM is a British Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts across the towns of Bolton and Bury from its studios in Orrell, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.
The radio station was given the name "Tower" as a local link to both towns in the station's coverage area; Turton Tower in Bolton and Peel Tower on Holcombe Hill at Ramsbottom near Bury.
Originally an RSL (restricted service licence) radio station, the team behind the project won the full-time licence and the station began broadcasting on 20 March 1999.
As an RSL, Tower FM broadcast from Bury via a link to the transmitter on Peel Tower. The radio station only broadcast from Bolton once the main base was established on Gaskell Street, Bolton.
Since that time the station has changed ownership twice and is now owned by UTV Radio.
The target area for the station are the towns of Bolton and Bury although most of Greater Manchester and even parts of Cheshire can receive the station perfectly well.
Relocation
In early 2007, the station's owners approached UK media regulator OFCOM to ask permission to move the station's base from Bolton to the Haydock or Newton Le Willows area of Merseyside as part of a plan to house it in a single building with two other stations from the UTV Radio group - Wish FM in Wigan and Wire FM in Warrington. Latterly a decision was made to colocate the three stations at Wish's current site in Orrell, and Tower moved premises in early autumn 2009.
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Coordinates: 53°32′18″N 2°41′42″W / 53.5384°N 2.6949°W