AHBS Community Radio
| Broadcast area | Ashford, Kent |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 107.1 MHz |
| History | |
First air date | 26 December 1971 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.ahbs.org.uk |
AHBS Hospital Radio is a hospital radio station serving the town of Ashford, Kent which launched on December 26, 1971.
The station broadcasts 24 hours a day around the wards of the William Harvey Hospital and on 107.1 FM Radio Ashford. The station is funded entirely by grants, donations and subscriptions.
Broadcasting
[edit]The existing hospital station and studios are based at the William Harvey Hospital in Kennington.[1][2]
The main output of AHBS is the Live Request Show daily with a regular line-up of presenters.
History
[edit]AHBS (Ashford Hospital Broadcasting Service) has been broadcasting hospital radio to Ashford's hospitals since 1971.[3] Radio Ashford Limited applied for a licence to operate a community station for Ashford, and were granted the new community station licence by OFCOM in May 2009 which includes some of the AHBS programmes.[4]
The AHBS volunteers produced the Weekend Breakfast Show up until October 2017 when it was transferred to Radio Ashford to broadcast the show instead with the same frequency.
References
[edit]- ^ "Webbo's World: Life at 50". Folkestone Herald. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ^ "Take part and help to fund local radio". Ashford Herald. 6 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ^ AHBS Hospital Radio Archived September 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Three community radio licence awards: May 2009 Archived December 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine