NIOCOM
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Broadcasting |
| Founded 📆 | 2002 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Cheshire, UK |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Products 📟 | Radio |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | [1] |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
NIOCOM is a company that operated radio stations in the North West of England.
History
NIOCOM's founder, David Duffy, started in broadcasting with Essex Radio in the mid 1980s. In the 1990s he joined forces with Phil Houltby to bring together a consortium to secure the commercial radio licence for Warrington - Wire FM. After Wire FM was sold to The Wireless Group in 1999, David returned to work in the technology sector and Phil to the construction marketplace.
In 2004 David & Phil applied for and won the licence to establish and operate community station Cheshire FM. Cheshire FM serves the towns of Northwich, Middlewich and Winsford in Cheshire. David's company, Niocom Ltd, acquired Merseyside's Dune FM in Southport in June 2008 after The Local Radio Company put it up for sale. In January 2010 Niocom saved Central Radio in Preston, Lancashire after UTV Radio threatened to close the station and hand back the licence to Ofcom.[1]
In December 2010, Dune FM was sold to Southport Radio Limited and in June 2011 Central Radio was sold to UKRD.
With the sale of Central Radio, Niocom effectively ceased trading at the end of December 2011.
References
- ↑ "NIOCOM acquisitions". Retrieved 2010-01-23.
External links
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