Radio XL is an

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to broadcast to the West Midlands from Birmingham, England. Radio XL reach is to a potential Asian audience of over 250,000 people in the 15+ age group. The station is available throughout the West Midlands on 1296 AM, DAB in Wolverhampton and Shropshire and online. The studios are at KMS House on Bradford Street near Birmingham City Centre, from where Radio XL broadcasts live. Radio XL is aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at the Asian community. Programmes are designed to reach all sections of the community by using

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and

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languages. Other specialist programmes are broadcast in

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...

and

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

. Radio XL is involved with charity events, and accepts advertising. Their strapline used to be "Night and day, the Asian way".

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* Radio stations in Birmingham, West Midlands Asian mass media in the United Kingdom British Indian mass media British Pakistani mass media British Bangladeshi mass media {{UK-radio-station-stub