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A UK Restricted Service Licence (often called an RSL) is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event. Licences are granted by the broadcasting authority Ofcom (formerly the Radio Authority and the Independent Television Commission, respectively).
BBC Radio 2 is the UK's most listened-to radio station, playing classic and contemporary music for an older audience, as well as specialist music programmes in the evening (FM 88.1 - 90.2 MHz) BBC Radio 3 is a classical music station, broadcasting concerts and operas.
The Radio Authority also began to license Restricted Service Licence (RSL) stations – low-power temporary radio stations for special events, operating for up to 28 days a year – and to reduce the criteria for a "viable service area" with the introduction of Small Scale Local Licences (SALLIES) for villages, special interest groups and small ...
BBC Radio stations play a stripped back playlist of music all day, whilst commercial networks play easy listening music with minimal announcements, extended news bulletins and no advertisements. The BBC Radio 2 Live in Leeds Festival, scheduled for 17 and 18 September, is cancelled following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. [365]
Select Radio (formerly Select UK) is a London-based radio station, broadcasting on 94.4 FM to London and online, playing primarily house music. [1] The station first broadcast as a pirate radio station in 2003, for many years on 99.3 FM before moving online. It applied for a legal licence in May 2019 which it was awarded with a community radio ...
Later more local stations were introduced. There is also one national commercial radio station, Classic FM. Commercial radio stations simulcasted on both FM and medium waves from the beginning until the IBA asked radio stations to end the practice and from 1988 stations began to offer separate stations on each waveband. Typically another ...
N.W.A's debut album Straight Outta Compton (which had attracted controversy for its song "Fuck tha Police") includes the song "Express Yourself", which criticizes the censorship of music by radio stations, and hip-hop musicians who write inoffensive songs to target mainstream radio airplay. "Express Yourself" is the only song on the album to ...
National Prison Radio is a linear service broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, into prison cells. The station broadcasts a mixture of speech and music content, all designed to support prisoners through their sentences, helping them to make appropriate use of the rehabilitation services available to them while they are in prison and preparing them to live crime-free lives after release.