Leicester Sound

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Leicester Sound

Leicester
Broadcast area	Leicestershire
Frequency	FM: 105.4 MHz DAB Freeview
RDS	LEIC SND
Programming
Format	Contemporary hit radio
Ownership
Owner	Global
History
First air date	7 September 1984
Last air date	3 January 2011
Former names	Sound FM (1988–1991)
Former frequencies	97.1 FM 103.2 FM 1260 MW

Leicester Sound was an

Leicester Sound was launched by the owners of Radio Trent on 7 September 1984, eleven months after Leicestershire's first ILR station, Centre Radio, went into receivership and ceased broadcasting. The new station broadcast from Centre's Granville House studios and on Centre's frequencies of 1260 MW and 97.1 FM. The FM frequency was moved to 103.2 MHz in 1986 with medium wave broadcasts continuing until October 1988. In the same year, the station was renamed as Sound FM, before reverting to its original branding in 1991.

In January 1992, Leicester Sound was bought out by

from a transmitter near Billesdon. In February 2002, the station moved to new studios at the Meridian Business Park in Leicester.

Leicester Sound broadcast its very last local programme on Friday 31 December 2010 ahead of the station's merger with Trent FM and Ram FM to form

The Capital FM Network

. The new station began broadcasting at 10 am on Monday 3 January 2011.

Notable past presenters

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• Robin Banks
• Rae Earl
• East Midlands Today
  )
• Jeremy Kyle (presenter The Jeremy Kyle Show)
• Graham Torrington (later with BBC Radio Bristol, Smooth Radio, now at Boom Radio)
• David Lloyd
  (now at Boom Radio)
• John Peters
  (now at Boom Radio)
• Matt Faulkner (now with BBC Radio Somerset)

References

External links

• Leicester Sound jingles ^{[dead link]}
• History of Leicester Sound ^{[dead link]}
• Photos of the Leicester Sound Billesdon transmitter
• Photos of the Leicester Sound building
• History of local radio in Leicestershire