New Style Radio

New Style Radio

Broadcast area	Birmingham
Frequency	98.7 MHz
Programming
Format	African-Caribbean
History
First air date	14 August 2002
Links
Website	http://www.newstyleradio.co.uk/

New Style Radio 98.7 FM is a community radio station based in Birmingham, England, and broadcasting to the city's African-Caribbean community. The station, launched on 14 August 2002,[1] was born out of 15 years of short-term radio broadcasting and training, including a long run of Restricted Service Licence activities.

The service is intended to be reflective of African-Caribbean culture and aspiration in particular and of multicultural Birmingham in general. It is historic in being the first licensed African-Caribbean radio station in Britain.

New Style Radio is run mainly by unpaid volunteers and is part of the Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre,[2] a registered charity set up to support the educational and social needs of the Afro-Caribbean community in the West Midlands.

In 2020, Ofcom censured the station for broadcasting COVID-19 conspiracy theories on a discussion segment.[3]

References

1. "Birmingham Music Archive". birminghammusicarchive.com. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
2. Registed Charity No 519691
3. Bland, Archie (8 December 2020). "UK radio station censured over Covid conspiracy theories". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 April 2024.

External links

• Official site