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AHBS Community Radio

Coordinates: 51°8′30″N 0°54′49″E / 51.14167°N 0.91361°E / 51.14167; 0.91361
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AHBS Ashford Hospital Broadcasting Service
Broadcast areaAshford, Kent
Frequency107.1 MHz
History
First air date
26 December 1971
Links
Websitewww.ahbs.org.uk

AHBS Hospital Radio is a hospital radio station serving the town of Ashford, Kent which launched on December 26, 1971.

The station broadcasts 24 hours a day around the wards of the William Harvey Hospital and on 107.1 FM Radio Ashford. The station is funded entirely by grants, donations and subscriptions.

Broadcasting

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The existing hospital station and studios are based at the William Harvey Hospital in Kennington.[1][2]

The main output of AHBS is the Live Request Show daily with a regular line-up of presenters.

History

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AHBS (Ashford Hospital Broadcasting Service) has been broadcasting hospital radio to Ashford's hospitals since 1971.[3] Radio Ashford Limited applied for a licence to operate a community station for Ashford, and were granted the new community station licence by OFCOM in May 2009 which includes some of the AHBS programmes.[4]

The AHBS volunteers produced the Weekend Breakfast Show up until October 2017 when it was transferred to Radio Ashford to broadcast the show instead with the same frequency.

References

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  1. ^ "Webbo's World: Life at 50". Folkestone Herald. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Take part and help to fund local radio". Ashford Herald. 6 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. ^ AHBS Hospital Radio Archived September 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Three community radio licence awards: May 2009 Archived December 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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51°8′30″N 0°54′49″E / 51.14167°N 0.91361°E / 51.14167; 0.91361