TFM Radio

TFM Radio
City of license	Thornaby-on-Tees
Broadcast area	Tees Valley
Branding	Today's Favourite Music
Frequency	96.6 MHz (RDS Name TFMradio)
First air date	24 June 1975
Format	Contemporary Hit Radio
Audience share	7.7% (September 2009, [1])
Owner	Bauer Radio
Website	TFM Radio

TFM Radio is a Thornaby-on-Tees based Independent Local Radio station. Launched in June 1975 as Radio Tees, with the callsign "You've got a friend on 257" it was the first independent local radio station serving the area of the Tees Valley with parts of North Yorkshire and County Durham. The station broadcasts on 96.6 FM, DAB and online. DAB is provided by Bauer Digital.

For a short time, the it was part of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne based Metro Radio group, before it was taken over by EMAP. After the Metro Radio group was taken over, TFM, along with the other sister stations, was integrated into EMAP's Big City Network, and renamed 96.6 TFM to express the FM frequency which the station is broadcast on. EMAP, a publicly listed plc's media and magazine arms were bought by Bauer Media, a privately owned German based family business in 2008. In July 2007, TFM was rebranded TFM Radio and re adopted the slogan 'Today's Favourite Music' which had first been used in the late 1990s.

Presenters

In:Demand and AfterHours are produced by Key 103 in Manchester for broadcast across the Big City Network in northern England while JK and Joel's Saturday Night Thing is voicetracked from Radio Aire in Leeds and The Big Top 40 Show is produced by Global Radio in London for broadcast on over 140 commercial radio stations across the UK. All other output is produced locally from TFM's Thornaby-on-Tees studios.

External links

• Official site
• [2] Gary Phillipsons Late Night Zoo on You Tube