Style

Description

 

Chart Led
Mainstream

Top 40 Radio - includes many of the heritage Independent Local Radio FM stations e.g. Radio City

 

Adult Mainstream

Softer music aimed at a slightly older audience than Chart Led Mainstream e.g. Heart FM

 

Adult Mainstream and Chat

Encompassing Contemporary Hit Radio and Adult Contemporary, usually with higher speech content than these formats. These tend to be small town / rural stations or large regional stations e.g. Century 106

 

35+ / Gold

Music predominantly from the 1 960s-80s. Many of these stations are on MW—e~g. Capital GoId 1152

 

Specialist Music Youth orientated

These stations focus on younger audiences, playing niche and more specialist music genres such as Dance, RnB and Alternativa Rock—e.g. Galaxy 102

 

Specialist Music Other

These encompass the rest of the music rich stations covering niche and more specialist music genres, such as Jazz and Country, often focused on an older audience. e.g._Jazz FM

 

Specialist News and speech

Statíons focused on speech programming, playing very little, or no rnusic e.g. LBC

 

Ethnic        Ethnic stations target specific ethnic groups, most are                                      currently targeted at Asian audiences,e.g.Sabras Sound  

 

SoundSource: Ofcom

“The Communicions Market 2005” pag.70