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MXR Yorkshire

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Frequency
  
12A (223.936 MHz)

Close date
  
June 2015

Air date
  
30 June 2003

Owner
  
MXR

Licensed area
  
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, North Nottinghamshire, North Derbyshire

MXR Yorkshire was a regional commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which served Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, North Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire. The multiplex closed in June 2015 after the shareholders Global Radio & Arqiva decided not to renew the licence.

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History

  • On 7 November 2002, the Radio Authority awarded a digital radio licence to MXR Limited for the Yorkshire region. The MXR beat another bid for the licence from The Yorkshire Digital Radio Company.
  • Yorkshire Radio started test transmissions on MXR Yorkshire from 26 June 2006 and has replaced jazzfm.com.
  • LBC replaced the Digital News Network from 28 July 2006 and LBC started broadcasting on 1 September 2006.
  • Capital Disney ceased broadcasting on the multiplex on 29 June 2007, freeing up 128kbit/s of space on the multiplex, filled by UCB UK and UCB Inspirational (64kbit/s each).
  • The Arrow stopped broadcasting via this platform as it switched platforms with XFM in 2009.
  • Gold replaces LBC from 1 Nov 2012. Global Radio took the decision to remove LBC from the Yorkshire regional digital radio multiplex and replace it with Gold.

    • Transmitters

    MXR Yorkshire is transmitted on frequency block 12A from the following sites:

    References

    MXR Yorkshire Wikipedia
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