New Style Radio 98.7 FM is a

community radio Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular ...

station based in Birmingham, England, and broadcasting to the city's

African-Caribbean Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of the modern African-Caribbeans descend from Africans taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the ...

community. The station, launched on 14 August 2002, was born out of 15 years of short-term radio broadcasting and training, including a long run of Restricted Service Licence activities. The service is intended to be reflective of African-Caribbean culture and aspiration in particular and of multicultural Birmingham in general. It is historical in being the first licensed African-Caribbean radio station in Britain. New Style Radio is run mainly by unpaid volunteers and is part of the Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre, a registered charity set up to support the educational and social needs of the Afro-Caribbean community in the West Midlands. In 2020,

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censured the station for broadcasting COVID-19 conspiracy theories on a discussion segment.

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Official siteNew Style Radio on the MediaUK website
Afro-Caribbean culture in England Community radio stations in the United Kingdom Radio stations in Birmingham, West Midlands {{UK-radio-station-stub