serving premont texas see kmfm fm . type independent local radio industry broadcasting founded 2003 headquarters kent products local radio slogan kent s biggest hits website 1 kmfm is the name of seven independent radio stations and one digital station on the kent digital multiplex owned by the km group each broadcasting locally to a region of kent in the united kingdom . although similarly branded the stations are officially eight separate licenses . kmfm offers its listeners local news and music . 1 kmfm plays a mix of music mainly covering the current top 40 hits after adopting a contemporary hit radio format in 2012 . previously kmfm had aimed at an older audience including many specialist shows catered for the more acquired taste . contents 1 stations 2 programming 3 studios 4 news service 5 references 6 external links stations edit kmfm operates seven local stations on fm throughout kent and one county wide station on dab on the now kent multiplex . apart from kmfm ashford each station was previously independent before being bought by the km group and rebranded . station former name s first air date frequency ies broadcast areas kmfm ashford lark fm never used on air 3 october 2005 107.6 fm ashford tenterden romney marsh kmfm canterbury 106 ctfm 21 september 1997 106.0 fm canterbury whitstable and herne bay kmfm maidstone ctr fm 18 october 2003 105.6 fm maidstone west malling and mid kent kmfm medway medway fm ; mercury fm september 1997 100.4 fm 107.9 fm chatham gillingham and rochester kmfm shepway and white cliffs country neptune radio 29 september 1997 96.4 fm 106.8 fm folkestone deal dover and hythe kmfm thanet tlr 17 january 1998 107.2 fm margate ramsgate broadstairs and sandwich kmfm west kent kfm ; mercury fm 8 july 1995 96.2 fm 101.6 fm sevenoaks tonbridge and tunbridge wells kmfm extra km d ; km digital 1 may 2004 2 now kent countywide programming edit all stations in the network have shared all programming since march 2012 . 3 the new countywide show started on monday 12 march 2012 presented by rob wills . the previous local breakfast djs had been made redundant following the close of their breakfast shows the previous friday and all other shows presented by them were also removed from the network . kmfm extra until then a separate station with a separate schedule was closed down in june 2012 and replaced on dab with the regular kmfm service . each station still offers local advertisements and sponsorships in the case of the dab and online services countywide adverts are heard . originally each station produced its own programming during daytime . apart from medway from 2007 each station grouped with its neighbour west kent and maidstone ; canterbury and thanet ; ashford and shepway and white cliffs country to network programmes between 11am and 7pm . the programmes were merged in april 2009 to create 2 groups with their own networked programming west maidstone medway and west kent and east ashford canterbury shepway and white cliffs country and thanet . 4 at other times evenings and weekends programming was broadcast across all seven stations . in september 2009 kmfm were given permission to network all programmes apart from monday to saturday breakfast and sunday afternoons . 5 saturday breakfast and sunday afternoons became networked in 2010 . the breakfast shows for kmfm maidstone and kmfm west kent were merged in january 2011 . 6 studios edit originally all seven stations broadcast from studios within their transmission area . kmfm canterbury moved to the ashford studio in 2008 7 and kmfm shepway and white cliffs country joined it in april 2009 . 8 kmfm thanet broadcast from cliftonville near margate having been relocated from margate harbour . all 3 stations in the west network broadcast from medway . 9 each station has however retained its sales teams within the transmission area . since the arrival of the county wide breakfast show all programmes are now produced and broadcast from the medway studios . the ashford and cliftonville studios have been closed . news service edit initially each station provided an independent service during peak hours from their respective newsrooms . local bulletins have since been superseded by a county wide bulletin . this system operates from 6am until 6pm on weekdays and 8am until 1pm on weekends ; outside of those hours kmfm s off peak news service is provided by sky news radio . news bulletins are provided on the hour from the medway studios ; previously the canterbury studio had been the news hub until this closed in 2009 . bulletins were also provided at 7.30 am 8.30 am 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm on weekdays . the half past bulletins started in september 2006 to replace extended news bulletins at the top of the hour . 10 this ended in autumn 2011 before being restarted in mid 2012 . news editor nicola everett newsreader reporter joanna earle reporter newsreader joshua coupe references edit radio solutions kentonline.co.uk penny plans to make waves at km fm kmfm group can have one breakfast show agreed change of format kmfm west kent and maidstone page 2 kmfm to share more programming kmfm merge two breakfasts co location request for kmfm room for another kmfm in ashford maidstone s kmfm leaves town detailed list of format changes 2004 2007 ofcom external links edit kmfm v t e kmfm kmfm ashford kmfm canterbury kmfm maidstone kmfm medway kmfm shepway and white cliffs country kmfm thanet kmfm west kent defunct kmfm extra retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kmfm radio network & oldid 731012428 categories kmfm radio network british radio networksmedia in kentkm grouphidden categories engvarb from september 2013use dmy dates from september 2013 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 articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 july 2016 at 10 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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