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Exmouth Town Council and £500 from the Town Management. These grants, together with advertising revenue and donations, paid for that year’s broadcast. On 1 June 2009, Bay FM approached the Town Council for further financial support. The funding met difficulties, but was resolved when the Town Council agreed a £500 grant for the station. Donations and advertising revenue from the 2010 FM trial broadcast and online service helped to pay for the most recent RSL licence (around £3,000), the cost of the new studio build and general running costs. Other funding comes from Bay FM's own volunteers via fundraising events. Chris Tees, one of the presenters, hosted a 49-hour show, which raised over £900 for the station.
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Salterton, Otterton, Woodbury, Exminster, Kenton, Dawlish and
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DevonAir Radio also has an online service. The station’s online reach is worldwide, with listener feedback from around the UK, Europe and
America. The schedule comprises Bay FM's regular daytime mixture of 1960s–80s pop music and community issues, plus specialist music programming in the evenings. On
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DevonAir Radio’s current funding is a mixture of grants, private donations and website advertising revenue from local businesses. In 2006, Bay FM’s first trial broadcast cost £5,000. This sum – and the cost of the 2007 broadcast (£3,000) – was funded by Andy Green and Julie Green. In 2008, Bay FM
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Bay FM started broadcasting on Monday 11 September 2006. This was a 28-day trial broadcast on 107 MHz FM. Since then, there have been five annual 14-day trial broadcasts and one seven-day trial broadcast on a pilot
Restricted Service Licence (RSL), issued by the regulator, the Office of
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Budleigh
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The station was launched on 11 September 2006 as Bay FM Radio with a month-long trial FM broadcast, followed by a continuing series of annual trial FM broadcasts in the
Exmouth area, coinciding with the Exmouth festival.
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