Talk:Dover
From Academic Kids
Though 198.54.202.242 vandalised a couple of times earlier in the day, his/her final edit did actually identify an inaccuracy in the article: there does now appear to be a regular Dover-Boulogne ferry again. Will amend the article to reflect this. Matthewmayer 19:03, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Moved from article
I have moved this from the article cause I'm not sure what to do with it.
Local Radio - Neptune Radio, Dover's Own Station
Dover's local radio station came to air as Neptune Radio on the 29th September 1997 at 7am after closing as a month long trial at 3am the same morning. The trial station was known as "The Sound" which broadcast both to White Cliffs Country (Dover) and Shepway (Folkestone) as two stations "Shepway Sound" and "White Cliffs Sound" throughout the 1990's. The station was due to come on air as "The Sound" however changed it's name to Neptune Radio due to it's closeness to the sea. The station actually has it's roots in the 1970's as pirate radio station Channel Radio, run by Dovorian Eddie Austin. Austin also was one of the founder members of Invicta FM, Kent's commercial wide station and also worked on Radio Caroline. He got numerous fines but vowed to keep fighting until the town had it's own licence. Channel Radio broadcast only over the Dover area. The station came on air in 1997 broadcasting from one of the oldest buildings in Dover, next door to the Kent Messenger offices at 7 Church Street, near to the town's Market Square being a central location. The station has it's own mascot "King Neptune" and was a truly local station with attendance at numerous local events. It broadcast on 96.4 FM (Folkestone) and 106.8FM (Dover) and won UK Radio Station of the Year twice in 1999 and 2000. It's successful format was later applied to it's sister stations Arrow in Hastings and Sovereign Radio in Eastbourne when the station was bought by Radio Investments limited. A group from Neptune Radio also applied for the Ashford licence under the name Ashford FM spearheaded by Mark Carter, however they did not gain the licence. In 2001 the Kent Messenger bought Neptune Radio and moved the station not long after from Dover to Folkestone however still using the Dover offices for news reports. In 2003 the station was a rebranded as KM-fm Dover & Folkestone, the end of the era of local radio as from now on programming was networked with other KM-fm's with news piped in from Canterbury. Eddie Austin now lives in Malaysia. Recently the KM-fm offices/studios and Kent Messenger Offices in Dover moved to the old Dover Express offices in the High Street, Dover with a KM-fm sign, so perhaps there are going to be studios in Dover again with local programming. However Neptune Radio was a successful station reaching 30,000 people a week. KM-fm however still has yet to prove it can be as good as Neptune Radio.
This is rather POV and looks like it has been copied from somewhere. perhaps it should be NPOV ed and put in its own article somewhere. I dont see how this much detail about a radio station can be justified on the main dover page. Any thoughts anyone. G-Man 20:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
