fm 106.8 mhz first air date 3 october 1999 format contemporary audience share 8.1 % june 2013 rajar owner lincs fm group sister stations compass fm dearne fm kcfm lincs fm rother fm rutland radio trax fm website www.ridingsfm.co.uk ridings fm is the independent local radio station serving the wakefield district of west yorkshire since 3 october 1999 . it is owned and operated by the lincs fm group . the station was originally based at thornes office park in wakefield before co locating with sister station dearne fm at zenith park on whaley road barugh green in the north west of barnsley in 2009 . following a memorandum sent to ofcom which stated that the station has never made a profit although being a technical success ridings fm was moved to doncaster where it shares a building with trax fm dearne fm and rother fm . contents 1 transmission 2 fm licence 3 programming 4 news and sport 5 references 6 external links transmission edit the station s transmitter is located at birkwood farm near stanley ferry close to the river calder . ridings fm broadcasts on 106.8 fm on 500 watts of power . from july 2001 it was made available on the bauer leeds dab multiplex . this service was discontinued in 2013 as it was a significant cost and covered areas outside of wakefield with an uneconomically small potential audience . ridings fm also streams online via its website and mobile app . fm licence edit prior to being awarded the wakefield licence the station ran a trial service which ran from 11 october 1997 on 87.7 fm . 1 by the closing date of 8 september 1998 wf 107 ltd based in wakefield henna fm ltd based in batley providing asian music and ridings fm had applied to the radio authority for the licence . 2 ridings fm was later awarded the licence on 7 january 1999 . programming edit the station s weekday breakfast show is presented by john tolson . other presenters include lucy doxey andy fenton will chalk steve orchard esme fallows stewart nicholson and paul blundell . former presenters on the station include dave rhodes paul bromley danny lacey phil butler dave parker paul stead steve white tony collins rachel bailey andy hoyle vicky norton kev wilson jamie fletcher and chris hubbard . ridings fm is an affiliate of the vodafone big top 40 broadcast every sunday at 16 00 . the station currently uses the strapline for the wakefield district . news and sport edit the station s news team won a sony bronze award in may 2000 and is made up of tina masters rachel louise gerrish jemma hall will chalk and joe bearsdall . at off peak times the station uses the feed from independent radio news . as well as news ridings fm covers local sports teams from the wakefield trinity wildcats castleford tigers and featherstone rovers in rugby league to ossett albion ossett town frickley athletic and wakefield f.c. in football . references edit geocities.com ofcom.org.uk external links edit official website history of local radio in yorkshire birkwood farm transmitter the student wiki receiving the licence in january 1999 v t e radio stations in west yorkshire england longwave am stations 198 bbc radio 4 252 rt radio 1 mediumwave am stations 666 bbc radio york 774 bbc radio leeds 828 radio aire 2 909 693 bbc radio 5 live 1089 1053 talksport 1215 absolute radio 1278 1530 pulse 2 1368 radio jcom fm stations 89.3 bbc radio 2 91.5 bbc radio 3 92.4 95.3 102.7 103.9 bbc radio leeds 93.7 bbc radio 4 96.3 radio aire 96.7 phoenix fm 97.2 102.6 107.1 stray fm 97.5 and 102.5 pulse 1 98.9 bbc radio 1 101.1 classic fm 101.8 branch fm 103.2 sunrise radio 103.5 drystone radio 105.1 105.6 capital 106.2 heart 106.6 bcb 106.8 ridings fm 107.3 fever fm 107.4 tempo fm united kingdom radio markets aberdeen glasgow london liverpool manchester northern ireland south west england west midlands west yorkshire worcester see also list of radio stations in the united kingdom retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ridings fm & oldid 737643753 categories radio stations established in 1999radio stations in yorkshireorganisations based in wakefieldlincs fm grouphidden categories use dmy dates from august 2012use british english from august 2012south yorkshire 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 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 4 september 2016 at 04 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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