NME Radio moves to Neath
By Andy Pearson
Well who would’ve thought it?
The radio station bearing the name British rock Bible NME is now being managed from offices in Neath!
The town may have lost its 84-year-old local weekly paper to the recession in 2009 but its passion for the media lives on.
The licence to run NME Radio was won recently by South Wales-based Town and Country Broadcasting – and they’re doing it with relish.
For them, under MD Martin Mumford, it brings a UK-wide platform for advertisers and bands wishing to hit a national audience.
The deal builds on a fast-growing stable of local and regional stations which include Radio Ceredigion, Radio Pembrokeshire, Radio Carmartheshire, Scarlet FM, Bay Radio, Bridge FM and Nation Radio.
It means that a broadcaster famed for its support of community favourites such as Aberystwyth Town FC and the Pembrokeshire County Show now has a station whose recent interviewees have included the Dirty Pretty Things’ Carl Barat, Sunderland’s Frankie and the Heartstrings, Mark Ronson and indie four-piece Everything Everything.
To have NME Radio on our doorstep can give the many locals who subscribed to the journal in its Clash-Specials-Smiths heyday an unashamed little tingle of excitement.
Rock on, Martin!
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