About Kerrang! 105.2
Kerrang! Radio or Kerrang! 105. 2 is a specialist rock music radio station currently broadcasting to London on DAB and across the United Kingdom on Freeview and various online platforms. It is owned and operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's National portfolio of radio brands. HistoryIn 2002, ahead of the advertisement of a new regional FM franchise for the West Midlands, Kerrang! broadcast a short-term Restricted Service Licence station to the area, transmitting from Birmingham City FC's ground. Kerrang! Radio as a permanent service first launched in late 2002 as a largely automated rock music service delivered over the Freeview platform, as one of a suite of stations its parent company (then Emap) added to the then-new Freeview TV system, the others including fellow digital jukebox stations Smash Hits Radio, Q Radio and heat radio, and relays of London stations Kiss 100 and Magic 105. 4 FM. This new Kerrang! Radio was also streamed online, and served as a sibling to Kerrang! TV which launched around the same time: these stations being connected with the Kerrang! print magazine in name, ownership and style.
Kerrang! 105.2 Description
Kerrang! Radio or Kerrang! 105. 2 is a specialist rock music radio station currently broadcasting to London on DAB and across the United Kingdom on Freeview and various online platforms. It is owned and operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's National portfolio of radio brands. HistoryIn 2002, ahead of the advertisement of a new regional FM franchise for the West Midlands, Kerrang! broadcast a short-term Restricted Service Licence station to the area, transmitting from Birmingham City FC's ground. Kerrang! Radio as a permanent service first launched in late 2002 as a largely automated rock music service delivered over the Freeview platform, as one of a suite of stations its parent company (then Emap) added to the then-new Freeview TV system, the others including fellow digital jukebox stations Smash Hits Radio, Q Radio and heat radio, and relays of London stations Kiss 100 and Magic 105. 4 FM. This new Kerrang! Radio was also streamed online, and served as a sibling to Kerrang! TV which launched around the same time: these stations being connected with the Kerrang! print magazine in name, ownership and style.