History
In 2000, Bauer Radio then Emap launched Kerrang! as a digital radio station, across the UK. The station bid on a number of new FM licences including Manchester & East Midlands but lost out, the West Midlands licence was however successful. The station launched on 10 June 2004 originally from Birmingham City Football Club and it then moved to a dedicated studio in Lionel Street, Birmingham near the BT Tower, and broadcasts from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter but the main station is in Manchester. Karren Brady was made chairman in 2003. Current breakfast show is hosted by Loz Guest and Keith Kleinfeldt, with other shows from Danielle Perry, Kate Lawler, Matt Stocks, Johnny Doom, Hywel & Jamie and Jake Thomson. Programme Director is Simon Hirst's former producer James Walshe.
Read more about this topic: Kerrang Radio
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“It is my conviction that women are the natural orators of the race.”
—Eliza Archard Connor, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 9, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)