WCL Test Transmissions Week

Hopefully, it’s going to be a busy week for our Wrexham, Chester and Liverpool multiplex.

At the beginning of the week Ofcom will be working with us to do the testing on our initial two transmitters. They should be working on Moel-y-Parc on Monday and Wrexham Rhos on Tuesday. When this has been completed we expect test transmissions to begin from these two sites.

In the test transmissions we’ll be broadcasting six ‘barker’ channels. These are pre-recorded loops that explain that six new channels will be launching soon. These barkers will often be interrupted with gaps and also live feeds of the stations that will replace them.

We’ve got six different presenters to read our announcements – but can you name them all?

If all goes to plan, our tests continue on Friday when we’ll replace one of the barker’s with Dee on DAB and then the following Monday (18th) when we test with live output of Nation Radio, Real Radio, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru.

Juice FM (and the official launch) will be when we add the St. John’s Beacon transmitter in the coming weeks.

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