needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message ministry of sound radio website www.ministryofsound.com radio the ministry of sound radio mos began service as a uk based radio station operating since 1999 . it was accessible on the ministry of sound website as streaming audio until the march 2016 . 1 current mos radio s djs include dj bailey x press 2 hed kandi residents andy norman and krystal roxx markus schulz dj storm hospital records matt darey above and beyond todd edwards and mark knight . the current team is led by steve o connor and syndicates radio shows around the globe as well as running the online stream and on demand options . the station is based near the ministry of sound at 103 gaunt street in south london . contents 1 history 2 greater london dab service 3 central scotland dab service 4 central london rsl 5 changes 6 sky digital 7 hardware 8 recent progress 9 references 10 external links history edit the station can trace its history back to a one hour long syndicated radio programme called the ministry of sound dance party which was produced in a tiny studio in the mos offices using protools from 1996 by robert sharp . he was joined by gavin kingsley from 1997 who also sourced dj mixes which ended up as free cds on the front of ministry magazine . at its height during the late 1990s the dance party appeared on over 50 radio stations in 38 countries worldwide . the syndication of the show spurred ministry manager james bethel to turn the programme into a rolling audio stream which was available on the mos website from 1998 . gradually older shows and mixes were added to the stream . greater london dab service edit following an independent report commissioned by bethel on the future of mos radio services he led an application for a digital audio broadcasting dab licence for a full scale radio station . the service was included as part of an application by a consortium called switch digital which proposed eight other services including heart 106.2 bbc london live and jazz fm . there were two other consortia bidding for the licence 2 but switch won the greater london 2 12a frequency dab licence from the then radio authority in 1999 to cover an area which included london and most of the home counties with ten transmitters . 3 bethel recruited the reports authors david dunne formerly head of music at mtv uk and kiss 102 and mark ovenden who had worked with dunne at the same places and was also a former bbc radio 1 producer . the small team of sharp kingsley dunne and ovenden began ripping thousands of dance tracks into the system making a station identity and planning a full schedule . another member of staff hired that year was wendy marr . charlotte coker joined later as did alexander bartelemy john askew drew erskine brian cheetham and iam fulton temporary . ministry of sound radio began test transmissions from a single pc in bethel s office during the summer of 2000 while a full studio was constructed opposite the mos reception desk . the station was also simulcast on the web where at one point it became the most listened to dance radio stream and eighth most listened to of any radio stream in the world december 2001 4 . the station moved to live programming when the studio was ready from 21 september 2000 . the station was officially launched by paul oakenfold with a live mix from inside the club itself . 5 despite the minuscule audience listening on digital radio at that point london had 50 dab stations 6 dunne insisted on live djs being put on air daily from 16 00 to 20 00 with live broadcasts from inside the ministry club every sunday morning from 02 00 to 06 00 . the music policy was almost exclusively house trance hard house based as this style of music was primarily what the club was known for and r n b was already being well covered on the broadcast band in london . there was only one regular soul r n b programme bobby & steve s soul heaven . when no live programmes were on the automated maestro system played out back to back music from the playlist or pre recorded programmes . during july and august 2000 the station was broadcast live every night from a makeshift studio built into the ministry s hotel in ibiza . on 31 december 2000 ministry held a new years eve party at the millennium dome . the radio station ran a nine hour live outside broadcast from the event relaying the main dancefloor across london and to the world online . such a commitment to a dab only radio service was considered a major achievement in the industry and was honoured in 2002 when the station was awarded gold as digital radio station of the year at the incar magazine awards . in 2001 the station also became the first uk dab only station to generate income from a paid for commercial . 7 central scotland dab service edit the success of the first feed then led switch digital to add ministry of sound radio to its application for the next dab service in central scotland . switch won this licence and from june 2001 it went live across central scotland with a launch party broadcast live from a club in glasgow . though at first the rest of the programming was a direct feed of the london service and no local programming was made there were plans to augment with local material at a later date . central london rsl edit dunne and ovenden led an application for a temporary restricted service licence rsl on the fm band in central london . the radio authority awarded this in early 2001 . the station went on air 1 october 2001 for a 28 day period on 87.7 mhz in a roughly 3 mile radius 5 km around the club at elephant and castle . the low powered signal was supposed to cover a small part of south and central london but although there were also some pirate stations operating in the city on the same frequency at the time the mosr signal was picked up by dxers . 8 changes edit in a turn of events 40 mos staff were made redundant during october 2001 while the rsl was still on air including several of the leading people who had put the rsl package together ex ryan diedericks ryan d . citation needed the dab service was closed in december 2002 . 9 the london frequency was taken over by galaxy fm . sky digital edit in 2005 ministry of sound radio under the then head of radio robert sharp made a short lived appearance on the sky digital platform channel 0198 . hardware edit there have been at least two pieces of audio hardware produced with the mos branding which have been capable of receiving dab audio broadcasts despite the station coming off dab in 2002 . 10 recent progress edit from march 2007 the station expanded further launching two on demand channels offering non stop chill out and underground sessions . it also launched a gadget for vista described as the most advanced vista gadget in the world . 11 by april 2010 the live station stream was available via the free iphone app . also it was one of the first radio stations available as an app for apple s ipad . 12 references edit cridland james 1 march 2016 . ministry of sound radio closes down . media.info . radio authority receives three applications for second greater ofcom.org.uk 11 january 2000 webpage ofc3 . radio authority awards second local digital multiplex ofcom.org.uk 7 april 2000 webpage ofc47 . ministry of sound radio becomes world s biggest dance music internet radio station akamai.com 30 january 2002 webpage aka2 . ministry of sound debuts cd quality radio station on realnetworks brandrepublic.com 13 april 2005 webpage br243 . faithless s sister bliss joins ministry of sound radio worldnews.com 2 march 2012 webpage wn0302 . what s hot in dab the world dab forum worlddab.org june 2001 webpage p. october 2001 dx news . dx radio . retrieved 2013 03 03 . london radio stations guide radio now.co.uk webpage rnco . ministry of sound handheld personal dr 011 dab 21 january 2003 webpage rnco38 . ministry of sound radio player gadget official windowsvistamagazine.com 2007 webpage wvm20 . dead link mosdanc . external links edit official website sample of dab station coordinates 51 29 51 n 0 5 58 w 51.49750 n 0.09944 w 51.49750 ; 0.09944 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ministry of sound radio & oldid 708096907 categories digital only radio stationselectronica chill radio stationsministry of soundinternet radio stations in the united kingdom1999 establishments in the united kingdomradio stations established in 1999hidden categories articles needing additional references from december 2014all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2011coordinates on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read 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