Ards Community SSDAB is applying for the local DAB multiplex to cover the Ards Peninsula in Northern Ireland.
The team behind Ards Community SSDAB includes Blast106, Belfast 89 and Sunshine 1049, who have also launched the Lagan small-scale DAB multiplex covering Greater Belfast.
Sean Og Mac Braoin, launch coordinator for Ards Community says: “The experience that launching and successfully operating the Greater Belfast DAB multiplexes puts us in an unrivalled position to guarantee the success of a DAB multiplex for the people of the Ards Peninsula including the city of Bangor.
“For radio stations it also means that they can choose to be on the Ards Community multiplex only or to expand across the wider region from Lisburn to Newtownards and Bangor, something we can uniquely offer.”
Chairman of Ards Community SSDAB is community radio director, Joe McCormack who is also a director of Belfast89.
Joe says: “I’ve been involved in local broadcasting in Belfast for more than a decade so it will be nice to bring that experience and those contacts to this multiplex and make sure that local people will have a raft of new local radio stations to enjoy with varied music and speech output. To quote a famous RTE chat show host, there’s one for everyone in the audience.”
Ards Community SSDAB has already signed up 11 of the 24 stations for the multiplex and want to hear from others who would like to join.