Radio Essex is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to

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, England via DAB and Mid and South Essex via FM, from studios in The Icon Building on

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seafront, owned by the Adventure Radio Group. As of September 2022, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 93,000, according to

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History

The station until 2015, consisted of two separate stations with separate names. Chelmer FM began broadcasting on 107.7 FM in 1998, under the ownership of Mid Essex Radio Ltd. The station was re-branded twice, first in 2002 by the Tindle Radio Group as Dream 107.7 (in line with

Dream 100 Dream 100 was an independent local radio station owned and operated by Bauer. It broadcast to Tendring and Essex from studios in Colchester and Ipswich, airing the same music programming as sister station Town 102. The station was folded into ...

, also owned by Tindle Radio), then again in 2009 by Adventure Radio as Chelmsford Radio. Southend Radio began broadcasting on 105.1 FM in 2008. The station was awarded its licence to broadcast in October 2005, beating three rival bids. The two radio stations began sharing programming from 2009. On 6 June 2013 the stations launched on DAB under the singular service Radio Essex. On 23 March 2015 all three stations merged and relaunched as Radio Essex. From August 2017, Radio Essex flipped format from AC to a Top 40 hit music format.

Programming

All programming on Radio Essex is broadcast from its studios in The Icon Building on Southend seafront, which also at times provides programming for other stations owned by Adventure Radio. The station broadcasts local news bulletins from 6am to 7pm on weekdays, and between 8am and 11am at weekends. Travel news is broadcast between 6am and 7pm on weekdays and provided live at key times from the Essex Traffic Control Centre at County Hall in Chelmsford. There are also travel bulletins at the weekend.

Technical

Radio Essex broadcasts to Southend-on-Sea on 105.1

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from a transmitter located at the top of Maitland House in Southend High Street. In Chelmsford and Mid Essex, Radio Essex can be received on 107.7

. This is broadcast from a mobile phone mast at Church Green in the village Danbury.

Analogue (FM)

Digital (DAB)

References

Radio Essex duo Martin and Su give sneak peek into their new show days before return to radio

Radio Essex signs Scott Robinson from 5ive

Chris Brooks appointed new PC at Radio Essex

Martin and Su join Radio Essex

Scott Robinson from 5ive to co-host Radio Essex show

Radio Essex launches on DAB digital radio

Radio Essex Schedule

External links

Radio Essex

Radio Today - Southend Radio Ready To Go

Radio Today - Southend and Chelmsford Radio to merge
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