Time 107.5 is an

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station, based in

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and broadcasting to East London and parts of Essex. The station strapline is "All Time Favourites" and the station is available on FM on 107.5 MHz in the broadcast area and online via its website.

History

The station launched as Active 107.5 FM and, after ten years of planning, went on air on 18 May 1998, broadcasting to east London and in particular to the London Boroughs of

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and Barking & Dagenham. Active FM played a mix of new and old pop music with an emphasis on

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and

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; evening shows catered for specialist musical tastes covering genres including disco,

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and contemporary club music. The station had its own local news team which would broadcast from Studio 2. The station was run out of Lambourne House, Romford and its transmitter was located on the roof. Active FM was bought by

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which later ran the station as Soul City FM. Time FM is the third name used by the station. It was adopted when the company was acquired by the London Media Company, a subdivision of the Sunrise Radio Group. In January 2014, Time 107.5 LTD entered

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, along with its sister stations, Time 106.6,

Sunrise Radio Sunrise Radio is a 24-hour commercial radio station, focusing on entertainment, music and news from the Indian subcontinent. It broadcasts to the Greater London area on 963/972 AM, on DAB (SDL National), and via the internet. History Sunrise R ...

and

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. On 4 February 2014 they were acquired for an estimated £2m by Lyca Media II Ltd, a subdivision of

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. The station has retained its branding as 'Time 107.5FM'.

Programming

Time 107.5 plays a variety of music from the 1960s to the present day. News reports are live, in-house bulletins, with local stories covering the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge.

References

External links

Time 107.5 websiteLyca Radio websiteLyca Gold websiteLyca Media Media.Info
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