north yorkshire frequency fm 104.7 mhz dab 10c first air date 4 july 1992 format contemporary hit radio audience share 8.9 % september 2013 rajar transmitter coordinates 54 02 49 n 0 47 13 w 54.047 n 0.787 w 54.047 ; 0.787 coordinates 54 02 49 n 0 47 13 w 54.047 n 0.787 w 54.047 ; 0.787 owner the local radio company ukrd group website www.minsterfm.com minster fm is an independent commercial local ilr radio station based in dunnington york yorkshire england and covering the city of york and surrounding areas such as selby tadcaster thirsk goole howden and even parts of leeds . minster fm was launched at 6 am on saturday 4 july 1992 by presenter daragh corcoran and the first song played was saturday in the park by chicago . 1 the station was launched exactly nine years to the date after bbc radio york started broadcasting and at the time had a live locally presented schedule 24 hours a day . this continued until the launch of yorkshire coast radio in november 1993 when programmes between 10pm and 6am were broadcast on both stations . unusually for the time local news in the early years was not made in house but was contracted out to yorkshire television . news is now produced by the station s own news team or for network or late night broadcasts excluding the drivetime show independent radio news irn or sky news both based in london who provide an hourly two to three minute news broadcast to 46 uk commercial radio stations . the station broadcasts on 104.7 fm from the acklam wold transmitter near leavening on the yorkshire wolds . for a time minster fm also broadcast to the thirsk and northallerton area using a signal on 102.3 fm from calvert s carpets in thirsk . station owners the local radio company later secured a specific licence for the area and launched minster northallerton on that frequency . tlrc was later taken over by ukrd and in 2009 the new owners merged this station with its stations based in darlington and durham to form star radio . as of 17 december 2014 minster fm started broadcasting on dab digital radio under the name more minster . it is broadcast on the north yorkshire dab multiplex from various locations within yorkshire including bilsdale acklam wold hildebrand barracks and oliver s mount . 2 more minster carries minster fm programmes in the morning and through the day but during the evening the dab schedule differs from the fm version broadcasting its own dedicated programming . minster fm 8.9 % has a higher audience share than bbc radio york 6.2 % as of september 2013 . awards edit in 2009 minster fm was one of three stations to be nominated 3 for the arqiva under 1 million awards but the award was presented to lincs fm 102.2 in lincolnshire . 4 references edit http www.aircheckdownloads.com minster testtx launch 0792.mp3 local dab launches in north yorkshire . a516digital . http www.radioworks.co.uk news newsstory.php story 223 arqiva commercial radio awards full list of winners . the guardian . external links edit official website the local radio company jingles history of local radio in yorkshire acklam wold transmitter minster fm public file v t e ukrd group radio 96.4 eagle radio eagle3 eagle extra kl.fm 96.7 pirate fm pirate 2 star radio cambridge and ely former tlrc stations 2br minster fm mix 96 spire fm spirit fm star radio north east stray fm sun fm wessex fm yorkshire coast radio dab multiplexes muxco north yorkshire muxco surrey & sussex south west digital radio other ukrd support & development first radio sales heart south devon itsmymarket.com savebuckets.com former assets 107 the bee merged with 2br arrow fm central 103.1 fm dune fm isle of wight radio ivel fm nova radio pennine fm 106.9 silk fm sovereign fm the quay vale fm 107.3 abbey fm closed mix 107 closed retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title minster fm & oldid 737637520 categories the local radio companyradio stations in yorkshiremedia in yorkradio stations established in 1992hidden categories use dmy dates from august 2012use british english from august 2012coordinates on wikidata 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 03 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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