MFM 103.4 (formerly Marcher Sound) is a radio station broadcasting to North West England and North East Wales from Wrexham. It is owned by GCap Media, due to the Marcher Radio Group being bought by GWR in October 2000, and broadcasts a mix of popular music and presenter chat as well as GWR/GCap networked shows, mainly in the evening. Its transmitter is on top of Hope Hill near Wrexham and although it officially broadcasts to Wrexham and Chester, it can be heard much further afield. Wrexham (Welsh: Wrecsam) is an industrial town in north-east Wales. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... GCap Media plc is a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. ... Wrexham (Welsh: Wrecsam) is an industrial town in north-east Wales. ... GCap Media plc is a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. ... GWR Group was a British radio company, until its merger with Capital Radio Group in May 2005 to form the new company GCap Media. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. ...

The station went on air in 1983, on 95.4 VHF and 1260AM under the name Marcher Sound. After a frequency review, it moved to 103.4 FM on the Wrexham-Rhos transmitter (for Wrexham and Chester) and on 97.1 to the Moel-y-Parc transmitter (for transmission on The Wirral). When used in supervisory signaling in telephony, the term frequency-change signaling has been used to describe frequency modulation. ... The Moel-y-Parc television mast is situated on Moel-y-Parc, a hill in north-east Wales at the northern end of the Clwydian range, close to the town of Caerwys and several kilometres north-east of Denbigh. ... The Wirral is a peninsula bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ...

It remained as Marcher Sound until 1989 when the FM and AM frequencies were split into three separate services. 103.4FM remained as MFM 103.4, the service on 97.1 was re-named The Buzz 97.1 (whose transmission site was moved to Storeton on the Wirral), while the medium wave (AM) frequency became Marcher Gold, now Classic Gold Marcher. The Wirral is a peninsula bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ...

In November 2005 it was announced that the Marcher Group's radio stations, including MFM, were to be sold, but in March 2006, despite a number of offers GCap called off the sale. [1].

External links

• MFM 103.4
• Listen to MFM 103.4
• Media UK.
• DooYoo Review.
• History of local radio in Cheshire
• Wrexham-Rhos transmitter.