Lincs FM is an

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radio station serving

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and

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. The station is owned and operated by Bauer as part of the

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Network. As of September 2022, the station has a weekly audience of 229,000 listeners according to

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Background

Lincs FM commenced broadcasting from studios at Witham Park in Lincoln on 1 March 1992. It was part of the wider

Lincs FM Group The Lincs FM Group was the parent company of several Independent Local Radio (ILR) stations. As of Q2 2019 the group had a combined audience of 524,000. It was based in Lincolnshire, in the UK. History The Lincs FM Group was formed in the early ...

of eight radio stations. In March 2019, it was announced that the radio station and its sister stations had been bought by

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for an undisclosed sum.

Programming

Most output is produced locally at the station's Lincoln studios. From February 2021, the station began to relay Bauer's networked Sunday afternoon programme The UK Chart Show, replacing the local chart previously broadcast in the slot."Pirate FM and Lincs FM to take Bauer's chart show", RadioToday.co.uk, Feb 2021
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Transmitters

The main transmitter 102.2 FM signal comes from the

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. It also has lower-powered frequencies in

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

, south of the tow
near
the bypass, on 96.7 FM an
Trent View Flats
(near the

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) in

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on 97.6 FM. Lincs FM can be clearly heard in northern

and eastern

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. The Belmont transmitter relays

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and in 2015 a local Lincolnshire multiplex was launched from the site. This operates on the old MXR frequency 12B. The Lincs FM Group broadcasting engineer is Andy Langford. Trent View House - geograph

References

External links

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Lincs FM Group

Review of the station at Ciao!

DooYoo

Belmont transmitting station

Grantham transmitting station

Trent View Flats transmitting station

Audio clips

Jingle package

Recording the jingles for Lincs FM Group stations at S2 Blue in Leek

There's more to Cleethorpes than meets the eye in 2003

How not to record jingles

1992 jingles

1995 jingles

1999 jingles

S2Blue 2006 package

YouTube

Video clips

Lincs FM 102 YouTube channel

Former presenter Duncan Newmarch now as a BBC1 continuity announcer in December 2009
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