{"id":285905,"date":"2025-11-15T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285905\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:44:09","slug":"select-radio-uk-in-norwich-has-expanded-its-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285905\/","title":{"rendered":"Select Radio UK in Norwich has expanded its coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Select Radio UK, which broadcasts music from emerging artists in the city from its studio in Mile Cross, has expanded its DAB+ range to include Cambridge, Peterborough and West Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The station has worked closely with Gonzo\u2019s, a music venue in London Street and now has DJs with regular shows broadcasting from the East.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Left to right: Anthony James, marketing director of Select Radio UK, Joshua Roberts, head of programming, and Katie Goodman, social media manager for Glitterbox. (Image: Select Radio UK)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Joshua Roberts, head of programming (Image: Select Radio UK)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningnews24.co.uk\/news\/25609359.prominent-city-centre-building-transformed-artists\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Prominent city centre building transformed by artists<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Joshua Roberts, who works as head of programming at Select Radio UK, said: \u201cIt\u2019s great to be able to showcase more talent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cGrass roots music is super important in Norwich.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cLast week, we had a guest on air who was just 17 years old.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAs an independent radio station, to be able to keep building the music\u00a0community\u00a0here is brilliant.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Select Radio has hosted weekly shows including record labels Defected, Glitterbox, Nora En Pure and Above &amp; Beyond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Select Radio UK studio in London (Image: Select Radio UK)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Roberts added: \u201cRadio stations play so much of the same music.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cOur biggest competitors are probably Radio One Dance and Capital Dance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cPlatforms like ours are where people begin their careers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe firmly focus on electronic music, everything from house, garage, disco, techno, dnb, funk and soul.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Roberts joined as head of programming at the radio station in 2016 and started to shape the station to appeal to \u201ca younger audience of music lovers\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2022, they got a digital broadcast licence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningnews24.co.uk\/news\/22323946.new-radio-station-dance-music-launches-norwich\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched on DAB+ across Norwich.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Select Radio app can be downloaded on both iPhone and Android devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Select Radio UK, which broadcasts music from emerging artists in the city from its studio in Mile Cross,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-285905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}