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Local & Regional Radio in Wales/Cymru
Commercial radio licences are awarded by government body Ofcom, which advertises a licence for a specific area and holds a contest to determine which station will be granted permission to broadcast in that area. Stations submit detailed application documents containing their proposed format and the outcome of research to determine the demand for their particular style of broadcast. Most commercial stations broadcast to a city or group of towns, or regional stations covering larger areas.
Many local and regional radio stations are owned by large radio groups which broadcast a similar format to many areas. The largest operator of radio is Global Radio which bought the former media group, Gcap Media. It owns Classic FM and London's most popular commercial station, 95.8 CapitalFM. Other owners are Bauer Radio and UTV Radio, which mainly own stations that broadcast in highly populated city areas.
Listening outside the UK
Since 2006, many of the UK's commercial radio stations have been restricting live stream access to users from the United Kingdom only. This came as a response to PPL's announcement that they would only grant radio stations the webcasting rights to stream to audiences within the UK only, or to face additional costs. Stations marked 'UK only', are restricted to UK IP addresses, those marked 'Use UK Postcode', will require you to type in a UK postcose to listen.
Station
Coverage
Frequencies
Wales (Learn Welsh)
DAB 12A
Bridge FM (UK only)
Bridgend & Vale of Glamorgan
106.3 FM
Cardiff & Newport
1359 MW (Cardiff), 1305 MW (Newport), DAB 11C
Anglesey & Gwynedd
103.0 FM
North Wales' Coast
96.3 FM
Wrexham & Chester
103.4 FM
Nation Radio (UK only)
South Wales
106.8 (South East Wales), 107.3 (South West Wales)
Cardiff
98.7 FM
Carmarthenshire
97.1, 97.5 FM (Carmarthen)
Ceredigion
103.3 FM (Aberystwyth), 96.6 FM (S E Ceredigion), 97.4 FM (Cardigan)
Radio Maldwyn (UK only)
Mid Wales & English borders
756 AM
Pembrokeshire
102.5, 107.5 (Fishguard & Tenby)
South Wales
105.2 - 106.2 FM, DAB 12C (S Wales & Severn Estuary)
Cardiff & Newport areas
103.2 FM ( Cardiff) & 97.4 FM( Newport), DAB 11C
Swansea area
102.1 FM
Swansea area
1170 AM, DAB 12A
Scarlet FM (UK only)
Llanelli
97.5 FM
Swansea area
96.4 FM, DAB 12A
South Wales Valleys
1116, 999 AM
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