More Radio Hastings, formerly Arrow FM, is an

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station serving

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, Bexhill,

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and surrounding areas. It is owned and operated by Total Sense Media and broadcasts from studios in

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hov ...

, as part of a network of stations across

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History

Arrow FM was founded in 1992 by two local radio executives, Mark Briggs and Matthew Wheeler, who conducted a series of RSL pilot broadcasts in both Hastings and Eastbourne. Three of the transmissions took place in Hastings under the ''Arrow FM'' and ''Splash FM'' branding - the licence holder was local DJ Terry James and the station manager was Terry Kane. The group disbanded a year before the Radio Authority advertised a licence for one or more services in East Sussex. The winning bid, Conqueror Broadcasting Ltd - a consortium of local investors and radio operators, led by businessman Bill Uttley Moore CBE, who created the Arrow fm brand - won the licence in 1997. Mark Briggs rejoined the station ahead of its full-time launch on

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10 April 1998. By 2000, Arrow FM had been sold to Radio Investments Ltd, which also had interests in nearby stations. This group went on to become

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, which then sold Arrow FM along with sister station

Sovereign FM More Radio Eastbourne, formerly Sovereign FM, is an Independent Local Radio station serving Eastbourne, Hailsham, Polegate and surrounding areas. It is owned and operated by Total Sense Media and broadcasts from studios in Worthing, as part of ...

to Media Sound Holdings in 2009. Bespoke local programming for the area was reduced to the weekday breakfast show, with all other output shared with sister stations

Bright FM More Radio Mid-Sussex, formerly Bright FM, is an Independent Local Radio station serving Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Lewes and surrounding areas. It is owned and operated by Total Sense Media and broadcasts from studios in Worthing, as part of ...

and Splash FM. In November 2010,

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approved a request to share programming across all four stations, stating the changes ''would not substantially alter the character of the service.''

Programming

All programming on the station is produced from Total Sense's Worthing studios and shared with

and Splash FM with opt-outs for local news and advertising. Local news airs every hour from 6am to 6pm on weekdays and from 8am to 12pm on Saturdays with headlines on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows. National news bulletins from

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are carried hourly at all other times.

Notable past presenters

Arrow FM's presenters during its early years of broadcasting included Peter Quinn.

References

External links

official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:More Radio Hastings Hastings Rother District Radio stations in Sussex Radio stations established in 1998