YorkMix Radio is a British radio station broadcasting in the city of

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, in

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. It was founded in early 2021, following the sale and re-branding of

Minster FM Minster FM was a local radio station serving York and the surrounding areas such as Selby, Tadcaster, Thirsk, Northallerton and Goole. The station closed on 31 August 2020 and its frequency is now a relay of Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire York & ...

Greatest Hits Radio Greatest Hits Radio is a classic hits radio network in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by Bauer. Overview The network launched on 5 January 2015 as the "Bauer City 2 Network", and rebranded on 7 January 2019 due to the success of Rad ...

, and features a number of the presenters and staff who previously operated Minster FM. It is owned by YorkMix, who operate a local news website for the York area.

History

Following the end of locally based programming on Minster FM, the operators of local news website YorkMix started a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for a replacement local radio station. The station launched in November 2020 as XmasMix Radio playing

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-themed tracks before its full programming launch on 4 January 2021.

Programming

YorkMix Radio features a mix of

Adult Contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

music through much of its broadcast day, alongside local news and features. The station also produces

outside broadcast Outside broadcasting (OB) is the electronic field production (EFP) of television or radio programmes (typically to cover television news and sports television events) from a mobile remote broadcast television studio. Professional video camera a ...

s from events within the area as well as for its commercial partners.

Transmission

The station transmits on the MuxCo North Yorkshire DAB multiplex, covering most of the county of North Yorkshire.MuxCo: North Yorkshire
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Notable presenters

*Ben Fry (Breakfast Presenter) *Laura Castle (Breakfast Presenter) *David Green (Presenter) *Victoria Charles (Presenter) *Tim Litchfield (Presenter) *David Dunning (News Presenter)

Notes

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