ctr 105.6 FM (abbreviated from County Town Radio) is an FM radio station broadcasting to the Maidstone and Mid Kent area of the Untitled Kingdom. It is now a part of the Kent Messenger Group who acquired the station in October 2006. Currently the station remains as ctr 105.6, but under guidance of the kmfm radio group. Maidstone (pronounced either mÄdstun or mÄdstone) is the county town of Kent, in South East England, United Kingdom. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... FreQuency is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by SCEI. It was released in November 2001. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ...
In November 2006 CTr was taken over by The Kent Messenger Group[1], who are a Media Company based in Kent. Their portfolio already includes several radio stations across the county, operating collectively as kmfm. kmfm is the name of six Independent Local Radio stations and one digital station (on the Kent Digital Multiplex) owned by KM Radio Ltd, each broadcasting locally to a region of Kent. ...
On October 18th 2003 ctr 105.6 fm launched as the independent radio station for Maidstone and Mid-Kent. It was the realisation and culmination of over 13 years of hard work by a team of local radio professionals spearheaded by Jon Maxfield.
The group originally started as MFR - Maidstone Festival Radio, changing to CTR FM, then for a short period of time at the request of the Radio Authority they changed the station name to 20/20fm (named after the A20 and M20). The R.A. was worried about the effect the name may have on a new station that had launched in Canterbury called 106ctfm. The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ...
October 18th 2003 the voice of Mike Russell greeted the listeners along with the song by the Rolling Stones - Start Me Up! Simultaneously as the station started to broadcast a town crier could be heard ringing the news in the main town centre "oh yay oh yay... now hear this... Maidstone now has its own radio station"...
Unusually the station launched with many of the original RSL team formed a part of the new radio station including Patrick Foster, Russell Card, Kevin Field, Brian Jones, Mike Russell and Jon Maxfield.
Original Launch Staff
Jon Maxfield - MD, Mid-Mornings
John Brox - Programme Controller, Drive Time
Mike Russell - Producer, Breakfast Presenter
Sarah Thompson - Head of Sales
Kevin Field - Marketing & Promotions Manager, Presenter 'The Heat' Dance Show and OB Presenter
Patrick Foster - Studio Manager, Mellow Grooves and Cover Presenter
Brian Jones - IT and Evening Presenter
Richard Cave - Sports Presenter
Russell Card - Head of IT and Sports Cover
Moira Mitchell - News Editor
Helen Fisher - News Editor
Former Presenters
Jon Maxfield - also former MD (now at Atlantis.fm)
John Brox - Drive Time and PC (now running RadioWorks Associates LTD)
Mike Russell - Breakfast (now at Time fm in Windsor)
Moira Mitchell - News and breakfast co-host (now editor of The Downsmail Newspaper)
Helen Fisher - News and breakfast/drive co-host (now with GMTV)
It commenced broadcasting on 1st October 1984 using 103.8FM, and 242meters 1242kHz Medium Wave for the Maidstone area and 95.1FM and 497meters 603kHz (Canterbury) 95.9 FM (Thanet) 96.3 (Ashford) and 97FM (Dover).
Coast FM was the first station for Willie Morgan who merely did a Rock Show fill one day from their Maidstone studios.
DMG then took a controlling interest in Medway FM in the March of 2000 - and notified the RA of the same - meaning DMG were becoming a dominant force in the five counties around London - taking the licences held to nine in the South East of the country.
30 Dec 44 Rec for dut fm: ComSubDiv 102 15 Sept 45 Tran to: ComSubDiv 102, FFT CONUS for dischrg.
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WHITE Charles Cutler EM3(SS) 4 Sept 43 Rec for dut fm: Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. 14 Sept 43 Tran to: Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, NH 28 Sept 43 Rec for dut fm: Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, NH 1 Jan 44 Chngerate to EM2(SS) 1 Mar 44 Tran to: Naval Hospital #10, Aiea Heights, T.H. for med treat.
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