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Radio Southport is ON
the AIR
A new local community radio station was launched on
Saturday, 7 November 2015 for a 1 month broadcasting test, on 87.7FM, a
frequency approved by Ofcom. Broadcasting from the Wayfarers Arcade, they
cover all things Southport, in the run up to Christmas. "Sandgrounder
Radio, or
Southport
Radio
is a brand new and exciting radio station for Southport. It's to give the
people of the area a voice and we hope, will help promote local groups and
activities in the run up to Christmas." said Neil Newton. Neil
invited us over to see what was going on, on one of his Breakfast Shows and
we found Jonathan Cunningham MBE, from Birkdale based STORM Consultancy
explaining about his latest idea. We found out that on New Year's Day, his
staff and his family are holding a very unusual event, based on the XtremeSTORM idea called:- 'The
Fernley.'
It will see brave families swimming in the Marine Lake and also burning off
the Christmas excesses, with a run or walking on a short course. The event
aims to recognise one of Southport's greatest benefactors, John Fernley, who
built schools, colleges, observatories and gifted the Southport lifeboats.
The Eliza Fernley was the doomed Southport Lifeboat that was sadly lost.
That was, and is, still the world's worst ever Lifeboat disaster. We also
met up with Debi Jones who then took over from Neil for the lunchtime slot.
This was an extremely interesting experience and lot of interesting bits of
information are being put out, between the music tracks. So do tune in...
The last day of the stations Broadcasting is 4 December 2015.... But they
hope to then return to the airwaves very soon!
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