south yorkshire slogan your music your life frequency fm 97.4 mhz sheffield 102.9 mhz barnsley and rotherham 103.4 mhz doncaster rds hallam dab 11c first air date 1 october 1974 format contemporary hit radio audience share 10.7 % june 2014 rajar owner bauer radio sister stations hallam 2 hallam 3 webcast hallam fm radioplayer website www.hallamfm.co.uk hallam fm is an independent local radio station serving south yorkshire from studios in sheffield . the station is owned and operated by bauer radio and forms part of bauer s city 1 network of stations . contents 1 history 1.1 unification of bauer place stations 2 broadcasting 3 programming 3.1 news 4 notable current presenters 5 notable past presenters 6 references 7 external links history edit hallam fm logo used from 2004 to 2015 . the station started broadcasting on 1548 khz 194m am 95.2 and 95.9 mhz fm under the name of radio hallam from its studios at hartshead in sheffield city centre on 1 october 1974 . the first presenter heard on air was ex bbc radio 1 dj johnny moran the first record he played was i ve got the music in me by kiki dee which stuck after a minute and a half . in 1987 radio hallam merged with neighbouring yorkshire stations pennine radio in bradford and viking radio in hull to form the now defunct yorkshire radio network . currently hallam fm shares some weekend programming and news material with radio aire in leeds . the frequencies were changed during the 1980s to 96.1 fm for rotherham 97.4 fm for sheffield 102.9 fm for barnsley and 103.4 for the rest of south yorkshire . after a take over of the parent company yrn by the metro radio group the am frequency became great yorkshire gold . the rotherham transmitter was turned off in the 1990s as part of hallam s licence agreement and is now used by rother fm . hallam also moved its studio facilities to 900 herries road just minutes from sheffield wednesday s hillsborough ground . the office space at hartshead is now used by the sheffield star newspaper . 1 as the metro radio group was bought by emap hallam fm also became part of the big city network in northern england . in 2011 bauer media s big city network was replaced by the place portfolio containing the group s radio stations which are focused on specific areas of the country . unification of bauer place stations edit as of 17 february 2014 the following changes were made to bauer place stations in england and scotland a single in demand syndicated programme with new presenter stu tolan . 2 neil bentley s old skool & anthems programme which was shared between key 103 and 97.4 rock fm was extended to 12 other bauer place stations . 3 16 bauer place stations now have a single audio identity and new strapline your life your music . 4 broadcasting edit hallam fm s main competitors are bbc radio 1 capital yorkshire & heart yorkshire . other local competing stations include bbc radio sheffield peak fm rother fm dearne fm and trax fm . the station broadcasts on analogue frequencies on 97.4 fm tapton hill 103.4 fm clifton near the m18 and 102.9 fm ardsley in sheffield doncaster and barnsley respectively . almost the whole region is covered on 103.4 fm . the station also broadcasts via dab on the bauer radio multiplex and online . programming edit local programming is produced and broadcast from hallam fm s sheffield studios from 6am 2pm and 3 7pm on weekdays 2 6pm on saturdays and 12 4pm on sundays . hallam fm also airs networked programming from sister stations key 103 in manchester clyde 1 in glasgow radio aire in leeds radio city in liverpool and forth 1 in edinburgh.and forth 1 in edinburgh . the vodafone big top 40 is syndicated from global radio at its capital studios in london for broadcast on over 145 commercial radio stations across the uk . the station s local presenters include big john james and liesl big john at breakfast richie pearson weekday daytimes and saturday afternoons simon morykin home run and saturday breakfast and carl spencer sunday afternoons . 5 news edit hallam fm broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays from 7am to 1pm on saturdays and sundays . headlines are broadcast on the half hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows alongside sport and traffic bulletins . national bulletins from sky news radio are carried overnight with bespoke networked bulletins on weekend afternoons usually produced at sister station radio aire in leeds . notable current presenters edit darryl morris paddy mcguinness marvin humes notable past presenters edit steve banyard tom binns simon clark jon culshaw daryl denham simon hirst lucy horobin now with heart solent 6 martin kelner cindy kent 7 roger kirk stuart linnell now at bbc radio northampton & bbc coventry & warwickshire vicky locklin diana luke nick margerrison now at the bay scottie mcclue jonathan miles ed nell howard pressman now at bbc radio sheffield steve priestley james h reeve chris rodgers now bbc newsreader and reporter tim shaw keith skues former programme & station director 1974 1987 references edit media uk hallam fm in demand returns with new host bauer media 17 january 2014 daytime sharing arrives at bauer stations radio today 31 january 2014 wise buddah rebrands 16 bauer stations radio today 13 february 2014 hallam fm djs jk and lucy join heart solent radio today 16 january 2012 https www.youtube.com watch v 80keovfpka8 external links edit official website history of local radio in yorkshire clifton transmitter tapton hill crosspool transmitter v t e bauer media group publishing consumer titles australia apc australian geographic the australian women s weekly cleo cosmopolitan dolly empire fhm grazia harper s bazaar motor nw ok people the picture qantas the australian way rolling stone rugby league week street machine take 5 techlife top gear tv week wheels woman s day zoo weekly consumer titles germany auf einen blick autozeitung bravo joy das neue blatt neue post volksstimme consumer titles new zealand 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