Radio City 96.7

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Radio City 96.7

Broadcast area	Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales
Slogan	Liverpool's Hit Music Station Originally: Today's Best Music Side Slogan: 450ft above the skyline of Liverpool (This was Discontinued)
First air date	October 21, 1974
Frequency	96.7 MHz DAB 932 Telewest (Liverpool) Online
Format	Contemporary
Owner	EMAP
Website	www.radiocity.co.uk

Radio City studios tower

Radio City studios tower by night

Radio City 96.7 (also previously known as City FM and Radio City) is an Independent Local Radio station, based in Liverpool, UK, and broadcasting to Merseyside and surrounding counties. It is owned by EMAP Radio and is part of the Big City Network.

[edit] History

Launched in 1974 with Stevie Wonder's You Are the Sunshine of My Life, the station primarily broadcasts pop and dance music at a frequency of 96.7 MHz on the FM band. It is owned by EMAP and is part of their Big City Network of stations.

Until 1989 it was also on 1548 kHz medium wave from a transmitter at Rainford, until it split its frequencies and launched a now-defunct talk station on medium wave called City Talk - unusually it initially chose not to launch a Gold service on medium wave, despite the first generation of British Gold stations featuring many Liverpudlian bands and artists on their playlists. The medium wave frequency now carries its current sister station Magic 1548, from a transmitter at Bebington/Bromborough. The station is also webcast on its website. Originally based in Stanley Street in Liverpool city centre, in 2001 the station moved atop St. John's Beacon, which in the past was a revolving restaurant and viewing platform.

The 96.7 FM signal comes from the Allerton Park transmitter in south-east Liverpool, which also transmits Radio Merseyside on 95.8FM. There is also a transmitter in the Mersey (Queensway) Tunnel. There are also digital transmitters at St John's Beacon, Billinge Hill (in St Helens, which also carries Wish FM), and Hope Mountain (near Wrexham). The Billinge Hill site has the strongest digital signal.

1980s presenters included Pete Price, Jeff Cooper, Nicky Campbell, Paul Jordan, Norman Thomas, Richard Jardine and Johnny Kennedy.

The "Bride of the Week" spoof phone calls were notably notorious during the late-1980s.

On 9 November 2006, it was announced by Ofcom that Radio City had beaten competition from rival broadcasters to win a new FM licence for the Liverpool area. The new station will be a 24-hour speech radio format named CityTalk and will broadcast on 105.9FM. [1]