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FLAME CCR TRAINING
CENTRE: FLAME CCR ADDS
NEW DIGITAL SERVICE.
Flame Christian and community radio station After acquiring a digital licence to broadcast on
aims to reach a new audience after launching on the new Liverpool DAB+ in December, programme
a new digital service. makers are excited that they can now reach many
more people in the region.
V Flame CCR, which was established in 2000,
already entertains listeners from around the The Rock Ferry-based station - which grew from
world through its online service and its recently just three people, a cardboard box of CDs, a
launched app. microphone and an antenna on a local church
tower - now broadcasts around the clock.
However, as far as transmitting its wide range
of news, music and feature programs over the Station manager, Norman Polden, is very excited
airwaves, it was restricted to medium-wave radio, about its future. He said: “Now Flame CCR is a lot
which is now old-fashioned and of low sound busier, broadcasting 24/7 from our own studios in
quality. via internet www.flameradio.org and the Flame
Radio App to the world, and now also on DAB+
to Merseyside, via a transmitter on the St John’s
Beacon in Liverpool city centre.
“The Liverpool DAB coverage map predicted
Liverpool and the top corner of the Wirral, but
we are finding the signal goes further, so we
say ‘Liverpool and most of Wirral’ and there are
rumours it has even been heard as far north as
Southport, south to Frodsham and east almost
to St Helens.
“Unlike those early days, there are now
computers all over the place.
Norman Polden (station manager) and David Higham (programme controller)
Image: FlameCCR
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