City Pontypridd | First air date 24 May 2002 | |
Broadcast area Pontypridd and surrounding areas Slogan Playing the music of your life Frequency 107.9 MHz, Online, TuneIn Radio app, dedicated app for mobiles Format Community: music and talk | ||
GTFM is a community radio station serving Pontypridd and surrounding areas of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales. The station broadcasts locally on 107.9 FM and online via the station's website, from studios and offices on Pinewood Avenue in Rhydyfelin, near Pontypridd.
The station was started in 1999 by the local Glyntaff Tenants and Residents Association as a community project run by local enthusiasts. In partnership with the University of Glamorgan, it launched a full-time station GTFM 106.9 under an Access Radio experiment and following full evaluation was licensed as the first community radio station in Wales under OFCOM's changed rules in 2006 with a license which runs until 2020.
The station's OFCOM license commits it to:
The station is also expected to provide training, encourage volunteering and deliver other social gains to the local community.
According to a local MP, Chris Bryant, GTFM is the most popular local station in the area.
Programming
The majority of GTFM's output consists of locally produced programming including hourly local news bulletins, peak time travel updates and regular sports coverage, plus local features & interviews and specialist programming at evenings and on weekends.
The station also broadcasts Welsh language programmes three days a week alongside a weekday news bulletin from 3pm simulcast from BBC Radio Cymru. National bulletins from Sky News Radio in London are also broadcast during off-peak hours.