Resonance FM
Resonance 104.4 FM is a British non-commercial local radio station. He sends in London on FM frequency 104.4 MHz is to receive on the Internet and offers podcasts. Is operated by the London Musicians Collective.
History
Initial pilot programs already existed in 1998, the official Broadcasting began on 1 May 2002. He was part of the Access Radio Pilot Scheme of the British media regulatory body Office of Communications ( Ofcom ) project. On 15 December 2005 the license of the radio station of the Ofcom was extended for another five years.
Program
The station describes itself as " London's first artist radio station". The program offers a wide variety of subjects and forms of presentation that understand all the "alternative" to the current mainstream radio program. It ranges from a program that is designed by the staff of the UK's leading magazine for experimental music, The Wire, to the program " Calling All Pensioners " ( "To all seniors "), which older people about local events, their claims to State grants etc. informed. Live music sessions are broadcast in shows such as "You Are Hear " and " gLASSsHRIMP ".
Location and reception
The transmit signal is broadcast from the London Bridge Quarter and has due to the requirements of the Ofcom only a limited performance. He may be in London on the FM frequency 104.4 MHz - received - even if only with some difficulty. Especially disturbing repeatedly local pirate radio station to receive, send, especially on weekends like known to the listeners and popular frequencies illegally. The transmitter can also be received via internet live stream.
Funding and staff
The station is financed by funds from foundations, especially the Arts Council of England, a national arts and cultural foundation, donations and advertising, which may be sent but for licensing reasons only limited. He has three full-time employees, who are in charge of programming and the selection and control of shipments.
Listener
Overall, both terrestrially and via Internet stream, the station has about 85,000 listeners daily.
Reactions
About Resonance FM has been reported in several national magazines UK as the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. Professor Anthony Everitt, of the first Access Radio Pilot Scheme evaluated on behalf of Ofcom ruled that the station an "extraordinary variety of musical genres," representing. The genre diversity is " wider than that of any other radio station in the UK, and very possibly the world. " In spite of maintaining a fixed, editorial program structure Resonance FM have brought a rich, little-known realm of avant-garde practice to the public, without watering down the necessary ingredients for such challenge, surprise, difficulty, irritation and joy.
Own claim
Resonance FM even want to be a radio station like no other, as " Mission Statement " explains in her, a radio station that such works of art to be made public in that have no place in the traditional radio landscape. It should be as an archive of the new, the undiscovered, the forgotten and the impossible, an invisible gallery, a virtual arts center whose center is simultaneously local, global and timeless. The radio station itself should be a work of art. A radio station that responds rapidly to new initiatives, but also has time to breathe and reflect. A radio station that creates through their Einzigartigkleit a new audience, but also new producers. Resonance FM London radio waves would make the widest possible range of people available to operate the contemporary art (from the "Mission Statement" of the transmitter).