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City Talk 105.9FM
City Talk 105.9 was launched on 28th January 2008. The
station is the first local, all-speech commercial station to launch.
Its programming will include news, sport, features, documentaries, advice,
phone-ins and studio discussions. The station is broadcast from the Radio
City Tower, home to existing; Radio City 96.7 and Magic 1548.
The station will debate real issues that impact upon Liverpool and its
people.
Programmes will include: news, sport, features, documentaries, advice,
phone-ins and studio discussions. Presented by a mix of TV, radio and
journalist talent including Trisha Goddard, Simon O’Brien, Margi
Clarke, Dean Sullivan and Liverpool FC legends Ian (The Saint) St John
and John Aldridge, who will be joined by established local radio personalities
Phil Easton and Pete Price.
City Talk 105.9FM will reach approximately 1,500,000 people across Merseyside
and the surrounding regions and will also be available on DAB.
The station will be a lively and original aimed to inform, entertain
and provoke listeners. 105.9 will profile exclusive interviews, already
on ‘Rob McLoughlin Live’, the new Culture Secretary; Andy
Burnham MP gave his first interview, and on Friday 8th February, ex-CEO
of Liverpool Culture Company, Jason Harborrow gave his first interview
after his departure from the Culture Company.
The station will be involving and won’t be scared to campaign for
what it believes in and to try to make a real difference to our listeners’ lives.
It’s a radio station that invites interaction; City Talk want people
to get involved in debates, to share their opinions.
Bauer Radio Ltd, now part of the Bauer Publishing
Group following acquisition from Emap on 29 January 2008, is home to
a growing network of no.1 commercial radio stations in all major markets
in the UK and the no.1 commercial broadcaster in national digital radio.
Bauer Publishing Group is the largest privately owned publisher in Europe.
Founded in Hamburg in 1875 by Johann Bauer and currently headed by Heinz
Bauer, the group is in its fourth generation of family ownership.
The Group comprises 166 magazines in 14 countries worldwide, as well
as TV, Radio, Press and Printing interests across Europe.
For further information please contact:
Emma Blackmore (City Talk PR)
E: emma@ampersand.uk.com
T: +44 (0)151 709 4547
M: +44 (0)7939 690 188
F: +44 (0)151 703 0018
Contact details:
St Johns Beacon,
1 Houghton Street,
Liverpool,
L1 1RL
Tel. 0151 708 1059
Email. onair@citytalk.fm
Web. www.citytalk.fm
