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Yorkshire Gold - regulations at the time prevented the same owner operating the overlapping AM licences. The stations were sold to a group formed by station management and former Metro Radio Group executives: The Radio Partnership. In 1999 the Radio Partnership was acquired by
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On 4 December 1984, the station officially began broadcasting to a much larger area. Having resigned the original franchise early, Managing
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has appeared online and is hoping to recreate the early
Pennine sound. At the moment the station is playing the music of the day with classic jingles of the era. The station says the plan is to appear on the Bradford DAB+ in 2023 subject to funding.
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on 196 m MW/1530 kHz AM and 103.4 MHz VHF. In August 1985, 103.4 was changed to 102.5 as the first of the ILR frequency changes under the mid-1980s "Geneva convention" to lump ILR and
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Horsman spent 20 years at Pennine as a producer and presenter of 'Chips', a show for computer enthusiasts. He was also news editor in the 1990s and is now at the Centre for Journalism
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