Radio City 96.7

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Radio City 96.7
Image:Radio City 96.7 logo.PNG
Broadcast area	Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales
Slogan	Liverpool's Hit Music Station Originally: Today's Best Music Side Slogan: Live 450ft above the skyline of Liverpool (This was Discontinued)
Frequency	96.7 MHz DAB 932 Telewest (Liverpool) Online
First air date	October 21 1974
Format	Contemporary
Audience share	11.3% (September 2007, [1])
Owner	EMAP
Website	www.radiocity.co.uk

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Radio City studios tower

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Radio City studios tower by night

Radio City 96.7 (also previously known as City FM and Radio City) is an Independent Local Radio station, based in Liverpool, UK, and broadcasting to Merseyside and surrounding counties. It is owned by EMAP Radio and is part of the Big City Network.

[edit] History

Launched in 1974 with Stevie Wonder's You Are the Sunshine of My Life, the station primarily broadcasts pop and dance music at a frequency of 96.7 MHz on the FM band from Allerton Park. It is owned by EMAP and is part of their Big City Network of stations.

Until 1989 it was also on 1548 kHz medium wave from a transmitter at Rainford, until it split its frequencies and launched a now-defunct talk station on medium wave called City Talk - unusually it initially chose not to launch a Gold service on medium wave, despite the first generation of British Gold stations featuring many Liverpudlian bands and artists on their playlists. The medium wave frequency now carries its current sister station Magic 1548, from a transmitter at the former Bebington/Bromborough Power Station site. In the early days of Marcher Sound, the evening programmes of the station were simulcasted to the fledgling station, so for a period in the Eighties, Radio City had in theory, three frequencies. The station is also webcast on its website. Originally based in Stanley Street in Liverpool city centre, in 2000 the station moved atop St. John's Beacon, which in the past was a revolving restaurant and viewing platform.

The 96.7 FM signal comes from the Allerton Park transmitter in south-east Liverpool, which also transmits Radio Merseyside on 95.8FM. There is also a transmitter in the Mersey (Queensway) Tunnel. There are also digital transmitters at St John's Beacon, Billinge Hill (in St Helens, which also carries Wish FM), and Hope Mountain (near Wrexham). The Billinge Hill site has the strongest digital signal.

1980s presenters included Pete Price, Jeff Cooper, Nicky Campbell, Paul Jordan, Norman Thomas, Richard Jardine and Johnny Kennedy.

The "Bride of the Week" spoof phone calls were notably notorious during the late-1980s.

On 9 November 2006, it was announced by Ofcom that Radio City had beaten competition from rival broadcasters to win a new FM licence for the Liverpool area. The new station will be a 24-hour speech radio format named CityTalk and will broadcast on 105.9FM. [2]

In April 2007, networked content was introduced to the station Mon-Thurs 7-10pm in the form of Rich & Luce - In Demand. This is broadcast from Key 103's Manchester studio.

As of August 2007, current presenters include Kev Seed, Simon Ross, Glen Hunt, Scott Hughes, and Pete Price.

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v • d • e

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Radio and Television

Big City Network: CFM · Hallam FM · Key 103 · Metro Radio · Radio City 96.7 · 96.3 Radio Aire · 97.4 Rock FM · TFM Radio · 96.9 Viking FM

Big City Scotland: 102.5 Clyde 1 · Cool FM · Downtown Radio · 97.3 Forth One · South WestSound FM · Tay FM · 97.4 MFR · Moray Firth Radio 1107AM · Northsound 1 · Radio Borders · 96.7 West FM · West Sound

Magic Network: Magic 105.4 · Magic AM · Magic 828 · Magic 999 · Magic 1152 · Piccadilly Magic 1152 · Magic 1161 · Magic 1170 · Magic 1548

Kiss Network: Kiss 100 London · Kiss 101 West · Kiss 105-108 East

Other Radio Assets: Clyde 2 · FM104 · 1548 Forth 2 · Kerrang! 105.2 · Highland Radio · Northsound 2 · Tay AM · Today FM · Wave 105

Emap Digital Radio: Heat · The Hits · Q · Smash Hits · Kerrang! Radio · Mojo

Emap Music TV: The Box · The Hits · Kiss TV · Magic TV · Kerrang! TV · Q TV · Smash Hits TV

Publishing

Consumer Titles: Angling Times · Arena · Australian Snowboarding · Australasian Dirt Bike · Australian Skateboarding · Australian Mountain Bike · Bike · Bird Watching · Car · Classic Bike · Classic Cars · Closer · Country Walking · Digital Photo · Empire · FHM · First · Freesail · Garden Answers · Garden News · Golf World · Grazia · Improve Your Coarse Fishing · Heat · Instant Beauty · Kerrang! · Land Rover Owner International · Match · Max Power · Model Rail · Mojo · More · Mother & Baby · Motorcycle News (MCN) · New Woman · Outdoor Australia · Parker's · Performance Bikes · Pop · Practical Classics · Practical Fishkeeping · Practical Photography · Pregnancy & Birth · Q · RAIL · RiDE · Sea Angler · Shopping for Baby · Skiing · Steam Railway · Today's Golfer · Top Sante · Tracks · Trail · Trout & Salmon · Trout Fisherman · Waves · What Bike? · Your Horse · Yours · Zoo

Business Titles: ALF · AM · Architects Journal · Architectural Review · Broadcast · Business Travel World · CAP · Construction News · Drapers · European Plastics News · Fleet News · Ground Engineering · Health Service Journal · Heating & Ventilating News · Journal of Wound Care · Lighting · Local Government Chronicle · Materials Recycling Week · Media & Marketing Europe · MEED · New Civil Engineer · Nursing Times · Pet Product Marketing · RAC · Retail Jeweller · Retail Week · Screen International · Shots · Therapy Weekly

Distribution: Seymour · Frontline

v • d • e Radio stations in Liverpool and surrounding areas of Merseyside, United Kingdom
FM Stations	95.8 (BBC Mersey) • 96.7 (Radio City) • 97.1 (Buzz) • 97.4 (RockFM) • 102.4 (WishFM) • 106.7 (KCR) • 107.6 (Juice) • 107.9 (Dune)
AM Stations	1197 (Virgin), 1485 (BBC Mersey), 1548 (Magic)
United Kingdom Radio Markets: London • Manchester • West Midlands See also: List of radio stations in the United Kingdom