Independent radio

How Independent Local Radio looked and sounded in 1979

A second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations could soon be approved by the government. How will they be chosen?

The second phase of ILR begins as CBC comes on air in Cardiff

Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959

The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971

Inside the sound of High Peak Radio

Ofcom plans to further deregulate Independent Local Radio. But are things already too lax? Come hear the tale of political corruption at an ILR station in 1994

Some technical details of how Independent Local Radio sounds so different in 1977

Radio Guide in May 1976 takes a look at late night ILR phone-ins

When a phone-in programme goes disastrously wrong

Liverpool’s Radio City celebrates being #1 in 1982

A look back at the first wave of ILR stations and where they are now

Nigel Stapley twirls the FM dial in the days when that meant silence or hiss

A past more interesting than the present

Survey slaves are killing radio’s originality

James Barrington remembers Liverpool’s Radio City

The original contractors in the real ILR system

Darryl Chamberlain on an attempt to revolutionise radio

Local radio makes its way down the Cornwall peninsular

A sudden end to an ILR story

The slow birth of a radio behemoth

The slow arrival of radio in the south west

The slow death of a radio behemoth

The spread of a radio phenomena

Mike Brown’s personal view of AbracaDABra

ILR hits northern Ireland.