The Breeze (Bristol)
independent local radio station in England, broadcasting across Bristol
The Breeze (Bristol) was an Independent Local Radio station serving Bristol.
The station was folded into Greatest Hits Radio South West, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020.
History
It started out as Kute FM on 105.8 MHz FM in February 1998, being partly owned by Western Newspapers. Then on 26 November 1999, it became 107.3 The Eagle, a name similar to two other of UKRD's stations in Guildford and Cambridge. It rebranded in 2001 to Star 107.3 and in January 2004, the frequency moved to 107.2 MHz FM. The station played pop hits mainly from the 1980s and 1990s with a target audience aiming towards female adults between 25–35.
The studios were originally in the Bristol Evening Post building on Temple Way in Bristol.
On 7 September 2010, Southampton based Celador Radio acquired Tomahawk Radio Limited, the owners of 106.5 Jack FM and Star 107.2 FM, and in February 2011 the station's name was changed to The Breeze 107.2.
Licence applications
In its pre-launch guise, Kute FM was a pirate radio station, broadcasting in an under-served radio landscape in Bristol – with only Radio Bristol and GWR FM being well established as well as other pirates. Kute broadcast legally as a training facility in 1995, with a further trail in February 1998 in a joint arrangement with the Bristol Evening Post newspaper group and radio group UKRD with a view to gaining a permanent licence. The Radio Authority were formally advertising licence applications for several areas in the UK – including Bristol.
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Why this record matters
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This entry incorporates text from “The Breeze (Bristol)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.