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Now Nottingham

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Licensed area	Nottinghamshire
Frequency	12C (227.36 MHz)
Air date	April 25 2004
Owner	Now Digital (East Midlands)
Website	www.now-digital.com
Coverage map	from www.now-digital.com
Transmitters	Mapperley Ridge (Nottingham) Waltham Fishponds Hill (Mansfield)

NOW Nottingham is a local commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which serves Nottingham, Mansfield and the surrounding area. It launched on April 25th 2004 and is operated by NOW Digital on behalf of Now Digital (East Midlands) Ltd.

Stations carried

The following channels are receivable on any digital-equipped DAB radio in the Nottinghamshire area:

Station Name	Bitrate	Audio Channels	Description	Analogue Availability
BBC Nottingham	128Kbps	Joint Stereo	Full Service	103.8, 95.5, 95.1FM
Chill	128Kbps	Joint Stereo	Chill out music
Gold - Notts	96Kbps	Mono	Oldies Music	999MW
Traffic Radio	48Kbps	Mono LSF	Rolling Traffic News, Midlands version
Galaxy	128Kbps	Joint Stereo	Dance and R'n'B
Heart	128Kbps	Joint Stereo	80s 90s and current adult contemporary music	106.0FM
Smooth Radio	128Kbps	Joint Stereo	Easy Listening	106.6FM
96 trent fm	128Kbps	Joint Stereo	80s 90s and current popular music	96.2, 96.5FM
XFM Midlands	128Kbps	Joint Stereo	Alternative Indie/Rock music led station

Former Services

Services previously carried on the multiplex include

• Capital Disney (Ceased June 30 2007, replaced by Traffic Radio)
• Saga 106.6 (Re-branded Smooth Radio March 27 2007)
• Sabras Sound (Ceased October 23 2006, replaced by Chill)
• The Storm (Ceased January 24 2006, replaced by XFM UK)
• Century 106 (Re-branded Heart 106 September 2 2005)

See Also

• Waltham transmitting station

External links

• Fishponds Hill transmitter
• Mapperley Ridge transmitter
• Waltham transmitter