Ofcom Licence - Skyline Gold - History

Licence number: CR00009

Service name - Skyline Gold

Licence area - Hedge End, West End and Botley, and surrounding areas (as shown in the licensed coverage area map)

Frequency - 102.5 MHz

Skyline Gold is for people in Hedge End, West End and Botley, Hampshire. The service informs and communicates with people in the community by delivering a service that promotes and supports local initiatives, and improves community awareness and community spirit within the area.

The service broadcasts:

• Music. The main types of music broadcast over the course of each week are music from the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, with some specialist music shows.

• Speech. The main types of speech output broadcast over the course of each week are: local and community news, weather and traffic reports.

• The service provides original output1 for a minimum of eight hours per day.

The studio is located within the licensed coverage area.

The service provides a range of community benefits (social gain objectives mandated by statute) for the target community, both on-air and off-air, and in doing so, achieves the following objectives:

• the facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion,

• the provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service, and

• the better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of links within it.

Members of the target community contribute to the operation and management of the service.

The service has mechanisms in place to ensure it is accountable to its target community.

[July 2012. Revised September 2016]

1 Original output is content which is first produced for, and transmitted by, the station and excludes output that was transmitted elsewhere before. Original output can be live, pre-recorded or voice-tracked. Repeat broadcasts of original output and continuous music with no speech content other than advertisements, station idents and/or outsourced news bulletins (i.e. news bulletins produced by a third party) do not meet Ofcom’s definition of original output.

Coverage Map  (Opens link to PDF file on Ofcom site)