288:. IRS even went as far as offering a special rate card for those wishing to advertise on the 'offshore' stations they represented. In August 1991, the station switched its national sales representation to a new company The Satellite and Radio Sales Company which had been set up by Gary Miele, former Sales Director at
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license for Jersey, with a proposed frequency of 101.3 MHz. Those running the station at the time decided to enter the bidding process for the license and as a result, the decision was made to close
Contact 94. Contact 94 ceased broadcasting on 29 November 1991.
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Stephen Clipp and the French restaurateur Alain Tardiff. Clipp withdrew from the consortium during 1990.
506:. Despite a petition being signed in support of the application by Contact 94 fans, the license was awarded to rival bidder; Channel Radio Limited in May, and they began broadcasting on an amended frequency of 103.7 MHz in October 1992 as
153:, via satellite, overnight and the equipment had arrived in advance of the launch, the engineer who had been due to install the equipment was stuck in Jersey due to a heavy fog. On the opening night therefore Paul Easton broadcast between 11
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Independent Local Radio license for Jersey and in March 1992, along with three other competitors (one had already withdrawn) they submitted their bid under the name of
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The station broadcast twenty four hours a day at launch and this was a combination of twenty hours in
English, with the remaining four hours broadcast in French. English broadcasts were produced by the station between
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Normandy and the Channel Islands between September 1988 and November 1991. The station broadcast on various frequencies during its time on air, including 94.4 FM, 93.8 FM, 94.6 FM and 97.7 FM.
526:. The online station offers a variety of different music streams themed by decades. The station subsequently rebranded as 'Bailiwick Radio', changing its web address to www.bailiwickradio.com
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The station had a complex of two studios, based above the La
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Guernsey-based marketing and advertising agency
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Campaign (1988). French Radio Station to Begin Bilingual Broadcasts to Channel Islands. Campaign, 18 August 1988, p.23
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