ILR Sharing
Independent Local Radio Stations 1973 - 1990
Station |
Coverage and Dates |
Westwood One |
Production House? |
Radio Academy |
Production House? |
Suffolk Group Radio |
Production House? |
ORF - Osterreichischer Rundfunk |
Austria |
SFB - Sender Freies Berlin |
West Germany - Berlin |
Rundfunk DER DDR |
East Germany? |
Radio Aire 1981 - |
Leeds |
Beacon Radio 1976 - |
Woolverhampton & Black Country 1976 - , Shrewsbury & Telford 1987 - . |
Breeze AM 1989 - |
AM split for Essex Radio 1989 |
BRMB Radio 1974 - |
Birmingham |
Radio Broadland 1984 - |
Norwich & Great Yarmouth |
Brunel Radio 1988 - |
Bristol / Bath / Swindon |
Capital Radio 1973 - |
London |
Capital Gold 1988 - |
AM Split for Capital Radio |
CBC [Cardiff Broadcasting Company] 1980 - 1989 |
Cardiff 1980 Newport 1983 |
Centre Radio 1981 - 1983 |
Leicester |
Chiltern Radio 1981 - |
Luton 1981 - , Bedford 1982 - . |
Radio City 1975 - |
Liverpool |
Radio Clyde 1973 - |
Glasgow |
County Sound Radio 1983 - |
Guilford |
CN.FM 1989 - |
Cambridge |
Devonair Radio 1980 - |
Exeter 1980 - , Torbay 1980 - . |
Downtown Radio 1976 - |
Greater Belfast 1976 - , Londonderry & Limavady 1986 - , Enniskillen & Omagh 1987 - . |
Essex Radio 1981 - |
Southend 1981 - , Chelmsford 1981 - . |
Radio Forth 1975 - |
Edinburgh |
Fox FM 1989 - |
Oxford 1989 |
Great North Radio 1989 - |
AM split of Metro Radio |
Gold AM 1988 - |
AM Split of Ocean Sound 1988 |
GWR Radio 1985 - |
Merger of Radio West and Wiltshire Sound |
Gwent Broadcasting 1983 - 1986 |
Newport |
Radio Hallam 1974 - |
Sheffield & Rotherham 1974 - , Barnsley and Doncaster 1985 - |
Hereward Radio 1980 - |
Peterborough |
Horizon Radio 1989 - |
Milton Keynes 1989 - |
Invicta Radio 1984 - |
Maidstone & Medway?East Kent |
Invicta Supergold 1989 - |
AM split for Invicta |
LBC [London Broadcasting Company] 1973 - |
London |
Leicester Sound 1984 - |
Leicester |
The Light FM 1987 – 1988 |
Winchester – Renamed Ocean FM in 1988 |
London Greek Radio (LGR) 1989 - |
London |
Marcher Sound 1983 - |
Wrexham & Deeside |
Marcher Gold 1989 |
AM split for Marcher Sound |
Mercia Sound 1980 - |
Coventry |
Radio Mercury 1984 - |
Reigate and Crawley |
Metro Radio 1974 - |
Tyne and Wear |
MFM 1989 - |
FM split for Marcher Sound |
Moray Firth Radio 1982 - |
Inverness |
Network East Kent 1984 - 1984 |
Canterbury |
Northants 96 1986 - |
Northhampton |
Northdown Radio 1984 -1984 |
Maidstone & Medway – Became Invicta |
NorthSide Sound 1982 - 1984 |
Londonderry |
NorthSound Radio 1981 - |
Aberdeen |
Ocean Sound 1986 - |
Portsmouth/Southampton 1986 - , Winchester 1987 - . |
Orchard FM 1989 - |
Taunton |
Radio Orwell 1975 - |
Ipswich |
Pennine Radio 1973 - |
Bradford 1973 - , Huddersfield & Halifax 1984 - . |
Piccadilly Radio 1974 - |
Manchester |
Piccadilly Key 103 FM 1988 - |
FM Split for Piccadilly 1988 |
Piccadilly Gold 1152 1988 - |
AM Split for Piccadilly 1988 |
Plymouth Sound 1985 - |
Plymouth |
Power FM 1988 - |
Southampton FM Split of Ocean Sound 1988 |
Red Dragon Radio 1989 - |
Takeover of CBC in 1989 |
Red Rose Radio 1982 - |
Preston and Blackpool |
Saxon Radio 1982 - |
Bury St. Edmunds |
Severn Sound 1980 - |
Gloucester & Cheltenham |
Signal Radio 1983 - |
Stoke-on-Trent |
Southern Sound Radio 1983 - |
Brighton 1983, Eastbourne 1989 |
Sunrise Radio 1989 - |
Bradford |
Swansea Sound 1974 - |
Swansea |
Radio Tay 1980 - |
Dundee 1980 - , Perth 1980 - . |
Radio Tees 1975 - |
Teeside |
TFM 198? |
FM split for Radio Tees |
Radio Trent 1975 - |
Nottingham 1975 - , Derby 1987 - . |
Two Counties Radio [2CR] 1980 - |
Bournemouth |
Radio 210 1976 - |
Reading 1976 - , Basingstoke & Andover 1987- . |
Radio Victory 1975 - 1986 |
Portsmouth |
Viking Radio 1984 - |
Humberside |
Radio WABC 1989 - |
AM Split for Beacon Radio |
Radio West 1981 - 1985 |
Bristol |
West Sound 1981 - |
Ayr |
Wiltshire Radio 1982 - 198 |
Swindon/West Wiltshire |
Radio Wyvern 1982 - |
Herford/Worcester |
XTRA AM 1989 - |
AM Split for BRMB and Mercia |
Source: Independent Broadcasting Authority. IBA Yearbooks. London : IBA 1980 - 1989.