Tindle Radio is a media company which owns commercial stations in the Channel Islands and the Republic of Ireland. It has its head office in

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, shared with

Tindle Newspapers The Tindle Group is a British multimedia company operating regional newspapers and radio stations across the British Isles. It publishes over 200 local newspapers in the UK, a number of which are over 100 years old. The company is based in F ...

History

Sir

Ray Tindle Sir Raymond Stanley Tindle (8 October 1926 – 16 April 2022) was a British newspaper and radio entrepreneur. He founded the Tindle Group of regional newspapers and radio stations. Early life After leaving school he went on to enlist in the ...

acquired Island FM in

Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...

in February 1998, the first station of what was to become Tindle Radio Group. The business grew to own a dozen stations, mostly located in the South and Southeast of England. Between 2007 and 2010 four stations were sold, with the final five of the UK stations offloaded in 2013 through a management buyout, forming Anglian Radio. Tindle's last station launch in England was for Ipswich, but sold interests in new licences in Andover and Southend before they began broadcasting. After the UK stations separated, Tindle's radio division re-organised as 'Tindle CI Broadcasting', retaining its stations in the Channel Islands and Ireland. It remains part of the larger Tindle Group. The company launched its first digital station, Soleil Radio, on 1 August 2021. Channel 103 and Island FM also launched DAB+ simulcasts at the same time.

Radio stations

Tindle owns and operates three radio stations in the Channel Islands, and one in the Republic of Ireland.

Channel 103

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providing overnight and weekend afternoon bulletins. According to RAJAR it has the highest weekly reach of any radio station in the British Isles at 61%.

Island FM

Island FM follows a similar CHR format to that of Channel 103. It broadcasts to the islands of

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, Sark and

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on 104.7 & 93.7 FM as well as on DAB+ digital radio. It broadcasts contemporary hits - mostly from the early 1990s to the present day. Local news bulletins are produced from 6am-6pm Monday-Friday and 8am-noon at weekends, with

providing overnight and weekend afternoon bulletins.

Midlands 103

Midlands 103 is the Tindle Group's only investment in the Republic of Ireland. It broadcasts on a range of frequencies between 95.7 and 103.5 FM across Counties Laois, Offaly and Westmeath. It includes a varied output of mainstream music shows, topical talk and discussion and specialist programmes - including Country and Irish music, business news, and

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shows. The station produces its local news bulletins for the region during peak times, with evening (7pm to midnight) network bulletins produced by Bauer Media Audio Ireland.

Soleil Radio

Soleil Radio launched in August 2021 as an easy-listening DAB digital radio station for the Channel Islands. It plays relaxing music from the 1960s to the present day, with hourly news bulletins produced from the Channel 103 or Island FM newsrooms from 7am-6pm weekdays and 8am-12pm at weekends. Soleil doesn't broadcast news bulletins overnight or on Saturday or Sunday afternoons.

Former stations

During the 2010s, Tindle's former stations which broke away to form Anglian Radio were sold on again to

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and later

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. They were rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio in 2020. *

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- local radio station for West Berkshire, broadcast from Newbury (sold to Andover Sound in 2009, now Greatest Hits Radio) * Delta Radio - local radio station for East Hampshire, South West

and North West

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(merged with Kestrel FM in 2010) * Bridge FM - local radio station for Bridgend County, South Wales (sold to Town and Country Broadcasting in 2007) * Dream 107.2 - local radio station for Central Hampshire, broadcast from The Brooks Shopping Centre in Winchester. Previously known as 107.2 Win FM. (rebranded as The Breeze and later Greatest Hits Radio) * Kestrel FM - local radio station for North Hampshire, broadcast from studios in Festival Place Shopping Centre in Basingstoke. (rebranded as The Breeze and later Greatest Hits Radio) * Dream 107.7 - local radio station for Chelmsford (sold to Adventure Radio in September 2008) * Dream 100 FM - local radio station for North Essex and South

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(became Greatest Hits Radio in 2020) *

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- local radio station for Norwich (became Greatest Hits Radio in 2020) * The Beach - local radio station for

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and Southwold (became Greatest Hits Radio in 2020) *

Town 102 Town 102 was a radio station serving Ipswich that was owned by Tindle Radio, Anglian Radio Group and Bauer Radio. It broadcast from 2006 to 2020. Launched in 2006, in its later years, Town 102 carried identical content to Anglian Radio sister ...

- local radio station for the Ipswich area (became Greatest Hits Radio in 2020) * North Norfolk Radio - local radio station for

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(became Greatest Hits Radio in 2020)

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