SHMU ( , short for Station House Media Unit) is a
community radio station
Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting.
Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popul ...
operating in
Woodside,
Aberdeen
Aberdeen ( ; ; ) is a port city in North East Scotland, and is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, third most populous Cities of Scotland, Scottish city. Historically, Aberdeen was within the historic county of Aberdeensh ...
.
History
SHMU was established in 2003 and started broadcasting on the Internet at 9:30 am on 17 March 2005 and expanded to
FM on 20 October 2007.
SHMU was given the
Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
The King's Award for Voluntary Service, previously known as The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, is an annual award given to groups in the voluntary sector of the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies. Until 2022, awardees were announce ...
in 2020.
In 2022 SHMU applied for a licence to operate a
DAB ensemble in the North Aberdeen area as part of
Ofcom
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Ofcom has wide-rang ...
's third round of advertised small-scale DAB licences.
The station was granted the licence in July 2022 and started broadcasting on DAB+ in February 2024.
See also
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Media in Aberdeen
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Community radio in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, community radio refers to a system of licensing small, micro-local, non-profit radio stations, which started in 2002. In its early days, the pilot scheme was known as access radio. New legislation paved the way for this ad ...
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Mearns FM
Mearns FM is a community run radio station based in Kincardineshire, also known as the Mearns. There are transmitters in Laurencekirk, Inverbervie, Stonehaven and Portlethen leading to a coverage area stretching from St Cyrus to Aberdeen. Th ...
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NECR
NECR (short for North East Community Radio) was a broadcast radio station based in Kintore, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. NECR was awarded an Independent Local Radio Licence in 1993 and started broadcasting in June 1994. The station was a totally in ...
References
2003 establishments in Scotland
Community radio stations in the United Kingdom
Radio stations in Aberdeen
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