Archives for the ‘News’ Category

Channel 4′s Announcement

By Gregory Watson • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: News

Folder Media notes the announcement from Channel 4  that due to a drastic downturn in their (television) revenues, that they are cancelling their radio project. DAB Digital Radio listening accounts for 11% of all UK radio listening (over double the combined figures for digital television and the internet) and the medium is on the verge [...]



Fun Radio Joins the Folder Family

By Gregory Watson • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, News

Fun Radio, the only UK radio station for children and their families has just been acquired by Folder Media. It broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio in London and online at www.funradiolive.com and we’ve got exciting plans for it to grow and develop.



Folder Media Acquires Fun Radio

By Matt Deegan • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: News

Digital radio station FUNradio was today acquired by Folder Media for an undisclosed sum. FUN radio is a station for children under 10 and their families that broadcasts nationwide on digital television and www.funradiolive.com and on DAB Digital Radio in London. Over 60,000 adults and 130,000 children tune in to the station every month and [...]



MuxCo Wins Somerset

By Gregory Watson • May 21st, 2008 • Category: News

Folder Media subsidiary MuxCo has today, 21st May, been awardedthe DAB Digital Radio multiplex licence for Somerest by communications regulator Ofcom. MuxCo Somerset Ltd is a joint venture between MuxCo, The Local Radio Company and UKRD and plans to broadcast the following stations: Orchard FM, Star 107.7, Ivel FM, Quaywest, Easy Radio, UCB UK, Traffic Radio and a [...]



Ofcom Awards the Surrey & Sussex Licence to MuxCo

By Gregory Watson • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: News

On the 22nd April, Ofcom awarded the Surrey and Sussex DAB Digital Radio multiplex licence to Folder Media’s MuxCo subsidiary. This is the seventh DAB Digital Radio multiplex that a MuxCo company has been awarded and a key licence in the MuxCo network, broadcasting to over 1million people. The Surrey & Sussex joint venture was [...]



MuxCo Awarded Mid Wales and West Licence

By Matt Deegan • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: News

Ofcom yesterday announced the award of the new local Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio multiplex licence for Mid and West Wales to MuxCo Wales Ltd. This is one of a number of new local radio multiplex licences planned to develop DAB coverage for services in those parts of the country not already served. This licensing [...]



Nicky Tate Joins Folder Media

By Matt Deegan • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: News

Folder Media is today celebrating the award of a DAB Digital Radio multiplex licences to its MuxCo subsidiary and the appointment of a new Operations Manager. Earlier today Ofcom announced that it was awarding the DAB digital multiplex licence for North Yorkshire to MuxCo North Yorkshire Ltd, a joint venture between Folder Media’s MuxCo Ltd [...]