New Style Radio

New Style Radio 98.7 FM is a community radio station based in Birmingham, England, and broadcasting to the city's African-Caribbean community. The station, launched on 14 August 2002,[1] was born out of 15 years of short-term radio broadcasting and training, including a long run of Restricted Service Licence activities.

New Style Radio
Broadcast areaBirmingham
Frequency98.7 MHz
Programming
FormatAfrican-Caribbean
History
First air date
14 August 2002
Links
Websitehttp://www.newstyleradio.co.uk/

The service is intended to be reflective of African-Caribbean culture and aspiration in particular and of multicultural Birmingham in general. It is historical in being the first licensed African-Caribbean radio station in Britain.

New Style Radio is run mainly by unpaid volunteers and is part of the Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre,[2] a registered charity set up to support the educational and social needs of the Afro-Caribbean community in the West Midlands.

In 2020, Ofcom censured the station for broadcasting COVID-19 conspiracy theories on a discussion segment.[3]

References
  1. Birmingham Music Archive https://www.birminghammusicarchive.com/new-style-radio-987fm/
  2. Registed Charity No 519691
  3. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/08/uk-radio-station-censured-over-covid-conspiracy-theories


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