Resonance FM

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Resonance 104.4 FM is a British non-commercial local radio station . It broadcasts in London on the FM frequency 104.4 MHz, can be received on the Internet and offers podcasts . The operator is the London Musicians Collective .

history

The first pilot broadcasts were made in 1998 , and official broadcasting began on May 1, 2002. He was part of the Access Radio Pilot Scheme project by the UK Media Authority's Office of Communications (Ofcom). On December 15, 2005, Ofcom extended its license for a further five years.

program

The station describes itself as "London's first artist radio station". The program offers a wide variety of topics and forms of presentation, all of which are "alternatives" to the usual mainstream radio program. It ranges from a program created by the staff of the UK's leading experimental music magazine, The Wire , to "Calling All Pensioners", which tells older people about local events and their claims to state Informed about subsidies etc. Live music sessions are broadcast on programs such as "You Are Hear" and "gLASSsHRIMP".

Location and reception

The broadcast signal is broadcast from the London Bridge district and has limited power due to Ofcom's requirements. It can be received in London on the FM frequency 104.4 MHz - albeit often with some difficulty. Above all, local pirate stations often interfere with reception, which, especially on weekends, like to broadcast illegally known and popular frequencies on the listener. The station can also be received via an Internet live stream.

Financing and employees

The station is financed by funds from foundations, above all the Arts Council of England , a state art and culture foundation, donations and advertising, which, however, may only be broadcast to a limited extent for licensing reasons. He has three permanent employees who are responsible for the program planning and the selection and control of the programs.

Listener

Overall, both terrestrially and via Internet stream, the station has around 85,000 listeners daily.

Reactions

Resonance FM has been featured in several UK national magazines such as the Guardian , the Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph . Professor Anthony Everitt, who evaluated the first Access Radio Pilot Scheme on behalf of Ofcom , found that the station represented an "extraordinary variety of musical genres". The genre variety is "broader than any other radio station in the UK, and very likely the world over." Despite maintaining a fixed, editorial program structure, Resonance FM has brought a rich, little-known sphere of avant-garde practice to the public without diluting the necessary ingredients such as challenge, surprise, difficulty, irritation and joy.

Own claim

Resonance FM itself wants to be a radio station like no other, as it explains in its "Mission Statement", a radio station in which such works of art are made public that have no place in the traditional radio landscape. It should be an archive of the new, the undiscovered, the forgotten and the impossible, an invisible gallery, a center of virtual art, the center of which is local, global and timeless at the same time. The radio station itself should be a work of art. A radio station that reacts quickly to new initiatives, but also has time to breathe and reflect. A radio station whose uniqueness creates a new audience, but also new producers. Resonance FM aims to make London's radio waves available to the widest possible variety of people engaged in contemporary art (from the broadcaster's "Mission Statement").

Web links

  • echoes-online.de Detailed report on Resonance FM
  • www.bbc.co.uk Jonathan Carter: It's radio, but not as we know it . BBC Collective, September 19, 2002. (Eng.)
  • www.guardian.co.uk Imogen Tilden: New arts-based radio station for London . The Guardian, May 1, 2002. (Eng.)

Web presence of individual programs on Resonance FM