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NME Radio was a radio station operated under NME magazine branding, that broadcast a commercially oriented alternative music format. It first began broadcasting on 24 June 2008 and ceased on 25 March 2013. The station was revived in 2018 at http://www.nme.com/audio, taking over the programming of CDNX.
Initial plans for an NME-branded radio station were revealed to the media in late 2007 by Sammy Jacob, creator of XFM, who left the station following its purchase by Global Radio. The station began operating under licence soon after by DX Media, a company operated by Jacob.
Broadcast from studios in the Blue Fin Building in South Bank, London, also home to IPC Media, NME Radio was launched on 24 June 2008 with its first track being "Knights of Cydonia" by British rock band Muse.
On Friday 11 June 2010, almost two years after its launch, The Guardian reported that NME Radio was to cease broadcasting on DAB digital radio, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat platforms, and would revert to an online only "jukebox" format after DX Media had decided to end the agreement to operate the service.
On 21 July 2010, IPC Media signed a new licence agreement with local radio group Town and Country Broadcasting.[7] NME Radio relaunched in September 2010 and returned to some regional digital audio broadcasting (DAB) multiplexes. The station returned to Freesat and Sky, where it was available until 5 December 2011. Following the new licensing agreement, operation sites were split between IPC Media's London HQ and Town and Country Broadcasting's station in south Wales, Nation Radio.
The Town and Country incarnation of the station ceased broadcasting on 25 March 2013 at midday
Initial plans for an NME-branded radio station were revealed to the media in late 2007 by Sammy Jacob, creator of XFM, who left the station following its purchase by Global Radio. The station began operating under licence soon after by DX Media, a company operated by Jacob.
Broadcast from studios in the Blue Fin Building in South Bank, London, also home to IPC Media, NME Radio was launched on 24 June 2008 with its first track being "Knights of Cydonia" by British rock band Muse.
On Friday 11 June 2010, almost two years after its launch, The Guardian reported that NME Radio was to cease broadcasting on DAB digital radio, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat platforms, and would revert to an online only "jukebox" format after DX Media had decided to end the agreement to operate the service.
On 21 July 2010, IPC Media signed a new licence agreement with local radio group Town and Country Broadcasting.[7] NME Radio relaunched in September 2010 and returned to some regional digital audio broadcasting (DAB) multiplexes. The station returned to Freesat and Sky, where it was available until 5 December 2011. Following the new licensing agreement, operation sites were split between IPC Media's London HQ and Town and Country Broadcasting's station in south Wales, Nation Radio.
The Town and Country incarnation of the station ceased broadcasting on 25 March 2013 at midday
It's our launch playlist:
A LIST
Cajun Dance Party - Colourful Life
Coldplay - Lovers In Japan
CSS - Left Behind
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
Dirty Pretty Things - This Is England
Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Glasvegas - Geraldine
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning
Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me
Late Of The Pier - Heartbeat
Justice vs MGMT - Electric Feel
MGMT - Electric Feel
Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down
Primal Scream - Can't Go Back
Radiohead - House of Cards/Bodysnatchers
The Raconteurs - Many Shades of Black
The Ting Tings - We Walk
B LIST
Cool Kids - What It Is
Crystal Castles - Vanished
Foo Fighters - Let It Die
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Going Up The Country
Little Boots - Meddle
N.E.R.D - Everyone Nose
Red Light Company - Meccano
The Dodos - Red & Purple
The Little Ones - Morning Tide
Weezer - Pork and Beans
White Denim - All You Really Have To Do
White Williams - Violator
XX Teens - Only You
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