London FM Pirates Scan

[teckniqs]

I may be wrong but I think Beat FM 101.9 are now The Beat London 103.6 and hold a community license.

No they're not and that was very cheeky of a community station from the very same area to change their name from Bang FM to The Beat FM.
....As a result 101.9 changed their name to Real Beat.

But on that note it was also well cheeky of Beat FM to change from 107.1 to 101.9 back in 1997 and completely wipe out Freek FM to me out in Surrey and all across West London!

[famefm]

I may be wrong but I think Beat FM 101.9 are now The Beat London 103.6 and hold a community license.

No they're not and that was very cheeky of a community station from the very same area to change their name from Bang FM to The Beat FM.
....As a result 101.9 changed their name to Real Beat.

But on that note it was also well cheeky of Beat FM to change from 107.1 to 101.9 back in 1997 and completely wipe out Freek FM to me out in Surrey and all across West London!

Bang was and is a rubbish station and I hated that name and I suppose they thought that as the real beat was a pirate they would have no copyright protection but a rubbish decision for community relations and I remember also freek was wiped out by 101.9 not only by beat but there was also another pirate for a short while called breeze back in 1998 that also wiped out 101.8 does anyone remember them?

[teckniqs]

I may be wrong but I think Beat FM 101.9 are now The Beat London 103.6 and hold a community license.

No they're not and that was very cheeky of a community station from the very same area to change their name from Bang FM to The Beat FM.
....As a result 101.9 changed their name to Real Beat.

But on that note it was also well cheeky of Beat FM to change from 107.1 to 101.9 back in 1997 and completely wipe out Freek FM to me out in Surrey and all across West London!

Bang was and is a rubbish station and I hated that name and I suppose they thought that as the real beat was a pirate they would have no copyright protection but a rubbish decision for community relations and I remember also freek was wiped out by 101.9 not only by beat but there was also another pirate for a short while called breeze back in 1998 that also wiped out 101.8 does anyone remember them?

Yeah I remember Breeze FM but it was in 1996 not 1998. ....Beat FM was on 101.9 by 1998.
One thing I particularly remember of that Breeze FM station was a female MC called MC Orgasm.

[urbanocturnal]

Thanks for clarifying that, bit of a radio history knowledge gap there! I remember listening to DJ Sidewinder's Dub Machine on Beat FM 101.9 in 2015 or so, have a few recordings. When was their last logging?

I may be wrong but I think Beat FM 101.9 are now The Beat London 103.6 and hold a community license.

No they're not and that was very cheeky of a community station from the very same area to change their name from Bang FM to The Beat FM.
....As a result 101.9 changed their name to Real Beat.

But on that note it was also well cheeky of Beat FM to change from 107.1 to 101.9 back in 1997 and completely wipe out Freek FM to me out in Surrey and all across West London!

[famefm]

The real beat 101.9 has been off about 2 years

[urbanocturnal]

The real beat 101.9 has been off about 2 years

That's a shame, I miss Sidewinder's shows

[famefm]

Real beat 101.9 isn't even online I thought they would go on forever like lightning station and unique and vibes

[teckniqs]

Real beat 101.9 isn't even online I thought they would go on forever like lightning station and unique and vibes

Last time I was in their area they had their gamma-matched aerial extremely low on top of a 2 storey hair dressers shop and were only covering about a 4 mile radius.

[urbanocturnal]

Strong blank carrier on 90.2, no RDS.

[Lee2310]

The return of ORIGIN? Silent Carrier on 100.3 in South London. Showing "Origin"
Wasn't they meant to be doing a joint DAB Station with rude called R O?
Love Origin during their 95.1/2 FM days

[urbanocturnal]

The return of ORIGIN? Silent Carrier on 100.3 in South London. Showing "Origin"
Wasn't they meant to be doing a joint DAB Station with rude called R O?
Love Origin during their 95.1/2 FM days

Seems so, same studio number in RDS as on their Facebook page.

[famefm]

I see the updated list and you put house fm on 90.2 again? are you sure about that

[SD-E1102]

Unfortunately I ran out of time last night and used a station from a list I compiled for someone and something else so I will have to finish it off later and make a start on the stream links.

[famefm]

Cheers for that I don't think house fm has come back after a very short lived run last year on 90.2 after pointblank went legal leaveing 90.2 after holding on to it for a very impressive 14 year's and I think weekend rush might be back on 90.2 soon?

[SD-E1102]

Looks like Pure Vibez are on for now but knowing my luck it will change again shortly after updating the band scan

[famefm]

Interesting they tried their luck on 90.6 for a while but looks like the Turkish station that was on before took it back and I am surprised weekend rush return looks like it was short lived on 90.2?

[famefm]

I just looked again and noticed that the 90.6 is called street vibe and 90.2 pure vibes the 2 names are to similar to avoid confusion

[famefm]

Muzik fm was on 87.9 last night and no sign of 4tunefm 87.8

[mpx]

Muzik FM was on 88.0 and then moved to 87.9, mainly talk podcasts/recordings, religious, with a strange echo. RDS "MUZIKFM_" PI: 8800 with 87.9 in the AF (Alternate Frequency) tag
Front FM has returned on 90.2, Garage/Drum & Bass, RDS "FRONT_FM" PI: F200 RT: www.FrontFM.co.uk
Blank carrier underneath on 90.2
Blank carrier 92.4 RDS "USD_FM__" PI: E924
UNID House/Electronic on 92.7, currently playing a DJ Mix from Sam Supplier, no RDS detected
4tune FM are now on 101.1, Reggae music, no RDS detected, appears to be in horizontal polarisation

[sproggy]

Kream.fm don't appear on the scan, but have been back on 104.7 for a while now.