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Cheshire FM wins start up business of the year gong | Print |  Email to a friend
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Cheshire County Council has picked community radio station Cheshire FM as its ‘start up business of the year’.

Cheshire County Council has picked community radio station Cheshire FM as its ‘start up business of the year’.
The award came in the Vale Royal Business Awards and marks a significant success for the station’s management and team of some 20 volunteers.

Cheshire FM has only been on the air since March 2007, but has so far been well received by both listeners and advertisers.

The station is also in the process of having its ‘Real World Radio Skills’ training courses accredited. These will be delivered in a purpose built training facility at Cheshire’s Winsford HQ.

www.cheshirefm.com

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 1 By No, THIS is Cheshire, on 17-03-2008 23:42
At some point, preferably before they've wasted a year of their five-year community radio licence, they'll try and honour some of their Key Commitments. Remember those? They go something like this: 
 
- Cheshire FM will provide access and airtime to special interest groups that do not have significant coverage in other local media. In particular youth music programmes – aspiring artists, bands, musicians, lyricists, etc - and other local performers. 
- Discuss topical issues in specialist programmes; such as a weekly 30-minute 
speech-based programme as a focus for current affairs issues of local interest and importance. 
- Cheshire FM will also represent the various faiths in the community through all-inclusive multi-denominational programming including reflective and spiritual music programmes. 
 
...and plenty more besides. If there was one which said "Cheshire FM will present hourly national news from London mixed in with a selection of mainstream pop singles and bland celebrity chit-chat, playing lip service to local speech with a third-rate caller-untroubled phone in", then we'd applaud them. But there isn't. Cheshire FM isn't a commercial radio station, it's a community radio station. But its community programming and accessibility is lamentable.

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