KMFM Medway is an Independent Local Radio serving the Medway Towns and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is part of the KMFM group of radio stations in the county, which are part of the KM Group.

History[link]

KMFM Medway launched on 1 September 1997 as Medway FM, broadcasting on 100.4 and 107.9 FM, following a four year campaign^[2]> The station was fined £5,000 during its first year of operation by the Radio Authority after it intentionally adjusted the power of its transmitter on two separate occasions, which was against the terms set out in the licence.^[3]

The station was later purchased by DMG Radio in 2000 and subsequently re-branded to Medway’s Mercury FM, as the firm wished to brand all its local stations by the same name. A year later DMG sold their radio assets to GWR who, in 2002, sold the station to the Kent Messenger Group following the problem of the group's "station ownership point" as stipulated by the Radio Authority.^[3] The station was re-branded to KMFM Medway in September that year.^[4]

In 2004, KMFM Medway was relocated from premises on Rochester High Street to Medway House on Medway City Estate in Strood, where it shares an office with the KM-owned Medway Messenger.

Like the rest of the KMFM network, the station was relaunched in September 2010 with new jingles, schedule changes and more emphasis on music.

Programming[link]

All programming acorss the KMFM network is now shared across all seven stations following OFCOM approval in February 2012^[5]. The local breakfast show, by then the only local show on the station, was replaced hy a county-wide show on March 12, 2012.

Until 2007 KMFM Medway produced its own programmes during daytimes. It joined up with KMFM West Kent and KMFM Maidstone to create a West Kent network in April 2009,^[6] before all programmes apart from weekday/Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons were networked across all KMFM stations in September 2009.^[7] In July 2010, Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons became networked.

News bulletins come from the KMFM News Centre in the Medway studios on the hour from 6am - 6pm on weekdays, and 8am - 1pm on weekends. National news bulletins come from Sky News Radio outside these times. Traffic and travel updates are broadcast just before the hour, and every 20 minutes between 7am - 9am and 4pm - 7pm.

Presenters[link]

Current presenters[link]

• Nigel Ansell
• Mark Benson
• Tony Blackburn
• Si Kennett
• Ed Matthews
• Bob Mower
• Andy Walker
• Rob Wills
• Gerry Wilson

Former presenters[link]

• Richard Adams
• Dave "Davey B" Bethall
• Adam Dowling
• Vanessa Elms
• Neil Faraday
• Chris Finn
• Louis Hurst
• Oli Kemp
• Dominic King
• Emma Lee^[8]
• Bob Le-Roi ^[2]
• Johnny Lewis
• Toby Mackenzie
• Ed Matthews
• Tim Murphy^[9]
• Louise Perry^[10]
• Neil Redding
• Kirsten Reed
• Mike Russell
• Myma Seldon
• Benedict Smith
• Martin Smith^[11]
• Nick Snaith
• Melanie Sykes
• James Walker
• Richard Walters^[12]
• John "Webbo" Webster
• Jonathan "LJ" Young

Medway FM (Roadshow Crew)[link]

• Lesley Smith
• Simon Smith
• Ian James
• Jane
• Faye
• Graham Brazier

References[link]

External links[link]

• KMFM Medway