newark slogan hear the difference frequency dab fm 96.7 mhz grantham 97.6 mhz scunthorpe 102.2 mhz lincolnshire first air date 1 march 1992 format classic hits & contemporary hits audience share 17.5 % december 2014 1 owner lincs fm group sister stations compass fm dearne fm kcfm ridings fm rother fm rutland radio trax fm website www.lincsfm.co.uk lincs fm is a uk independent local radio radio station serving lincolnshire and newark from the humber to the wash . it broadcasts on 96.7 97.6 and 102.2 fm and online . the station plays a variety of classic hits from the 1970s through to the 2000s including current top 40 hits . the current station slogan is hear the difference . contents 1 background 2 award nominations 3 transmitters 3.1 dab licence 4 branding 5 references 6 external links 7 audio clips 7.1 video clips background edit the station has an 18.7 % share of all radio listening within its tsa rajar february 2016 . lincs fm broadcasts from studios at witham park in lincoln next to the river witham at the far end of waterside south . budget cuts within the lincs fm group mean that lincs fm amongst others within the group have restricted live programming . the station used to provide live radio 24 7 but now use automation where the presenter s links between the records are all pre recorded but made to sound live between 2200 0600 . award nominations edit in 2002 2003 2006 and 2007 the station was nominated for a sony radio award for station of the year in the 300 000 to 1 m listeners category . jane hill now a novelist and stand up comedian was nominated for station programmer of the year in 2004 . david lloyd who helped launch the station was one of the judges . transmitters edit stamp end lock next to the radio station the main transmitter 102.2 fm signal comes from the belmont transmitting station . it also has lower powered frequencies in grantham south of the town near the bypass on 96.7 fm and trent view flats near the john leggott college in scunthorpe on 97.6 fm . lincs fm can be clearly heard in northern nottinghamshire and eastern south yorkshire . the belmont transmitter has the digital one and recently lincs fm has their own multiplex . this operates on the old mxr frequency 12b . now this change has happened lincs fm can be heard across the whole of the county and not just part of it . dab licence edit the lincolnshire dab licence was advertised 1 2 on 24 october 2007 with a likely bidder in place by late 2008 . the far south of the county south holland bourne & stamford will not be covered as it is covered by the peterborough multiplex yet all of north and north east lincolnshire will be . on 24 january 2008 ofcom received one application for the lincolnshire dab licence from muxco lincolnshire which is 51 % owned by lincs fm group and was awarded on 19 february 2008 . 3 it will also carry compass fm and another new lincs fm digital only station called lincs county and use four transmitters at belmont high hunsley east riding of yorkshire grantham and lincoln county hospital . it should be available by 2011 being originally planned for july 2009 . branding edit the station have used the link up jingle package produced by s2blue . in 2010 they introduced a resing of the south london radio 107.3 package also from s2blue . in 2013 a package from audio sweets replaced all existing idents . the strapline for the station is the difference is ... . this re uses the slogan the group used back in the 1990s . trent view house transmitter site in west scunthorpe overlooks the trent valley and was originally to be a site for the emap digital radio now bauer humberside multiplex references edit advertisement for dab licence lincolnshire dab information dab award 2008 external links edit official website lincs fm group history of local radio stations in lincolnshire ofcom licence review of the station at ciao dooyoo belmont transmitting station grantham transmitting station trent view flats transmitting station audio clips edit jingles package recording the jingles for lincs fm group stations at s2 blue in leek there s more to cleethorpes than meets the eye in 2003 how not to record jingles 1992 jingles 1995 jingles 1999 jingles s2blue 2006 package youtube video clips edit lincs fm 102 youtube channel sally elkington talks to farmers weekly in february 2011 former presenter duncan newmarch now as a bbc1 continuity announcer in december 2009 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lincs fm & oldid 729954501 categories radio stations established in 1992radio stations in lincolnshirelincoln englandlincs fm grouphidden categories use dmy dates from july 2014use british english from july 2014lincolnshire articles missing geocoordinate dataall articles needing coordinates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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