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Wave FM was a radio station broadcasting to the cities of
Dundee and
Perth, Scotland. In June 2020 the Wave FM branding was removed and replaced by
Pure Radio 'coming soon' messages. Pure Radio replaced Wave FM on 6 July 2020.
The station broadcast a mixed music format 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and was founded as part of The Petros Radio Group which launched Discovery AM in 1994 and Radio Waves in 1995, followed by the award of a full scale ILR licence with the help of a consortium which also founded
Kingdom FM
Kingdom FM is a radio station serving Fife. It is owned and operated by Dc. Thomson Media and broadcasts from studios at Elizabeth House in Kirkcaldy.
The station broadcasts on five FM frequencies: 95.2 (Dunfermline and West Fife), 96.1 (Gle ...
in
Fife with the assistance of IRG (The Independent Radio Group)
When the station originally launched it was called Discovery 102, since Dundee is known as the City of Discovery after the
RRS ''Discovery'', which is docked there. The brand name was changed to Wave 102 after
The Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Chan ...
stated that people would mistakenly associate the station with its network.
On 15 May 2008 New Wave Media became the new owners of Wave 102, which was eventually joined by sister stations
Original 106 in Aberdeen and
Central FM in the Forth Valley.
On 26 October 2016 Ofcom approved an application from Wave 102 and Heartland FM to allow Wave 102 to take over the 106.6FM transmitter covering Perth. On Monday 9 January 2017 the station started to brand itself as 'Dundee and Perth's Wave 102'.
On 1 December 2016 three online-only stations were launched under the Wave 102 brand; Wave 102 Chart (playing non-stop hits), Wave 102 Country (24 hour current and classic country hits) and Wave 102 Gold (non-stop 60's, 70's and 80's hits).
In December 2017 it was announced that Dundee based
DC Thomson
DC Thomson is a media company based in Dundee, Scotland. Founded by David Couper Thomson in 1905, it is best known for publishing ''The Dundee Courier'', '' The Evening Telegraph'' and '' The Sunday Post'' newspapers, and the comics ''Oor W ...
had acquired the licences to broadcast to Dundee and Perth from New Wave Media.
On 19 March 2018 Wave 102 relaunched as Wave FM at 6am.
Wave FM closed in July 2020 and was replaced by Pure Radio.
Influence
Rockstar North
Rockstar North Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game development company and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The company was founded as DMA Design in Dundee in 1987 by David Jones, soon hiring former clas ...
, the Dundee founded game developer of the
Grand Theft Auto
''Grand Theft Auto'' (''GTA'') is a series of action-adventure games created by David Jones and Mike Dailly. Later titles were developed under the oversight of brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. It is primarily d ...
series, added Scottish and Dundee sound and visual references in the game
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, one being an in-game radio station called
Wave 103.
References
External links
Official website
Wave
In physics, mathematics, and related fields, a wave is a propagating dynamic disturbance (change from equilibrium) of one or more quantities. Waves can be periodic, in which case those quantities oscillate repeatedly about an equilibrium (re ...
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
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