Popular Weymouth and Portland radio station to cease broadcasting | Dorset Echo<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n It launched as a student project in 2011 at Westfield Arts College, with the name standing for \u2018all inclusive radio\u2019.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was soon endorsed by the likes of Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans and Carol Vorderman and officially launched as an FM station in 2013.\n<\/p>\n
\n Over the years it has served as a hub for the community and was a platform for many aspiring media personalities to gain local experience.\n<\/p>\n
\n Many listeners expressed their sadness of the closure, with one person describing it as \u2018heart-breaking\u2019 in a post online.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mayor of Portland, Cllr Charlie Flack, said: \u201cIt is a sad thing. They have served Weymouth and Portland for quite some time and unfortunately rising costs forced them out of business.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt seems to follow the trend, Wessex FM was first lost, and the loss of local services is a big concern. It\u2019s the local stories that are what interest people the most.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Concerns were previously raised around the station\u2019s future, after its former studio was sold. It was however saved after securing its permanent home in Castletown, Portland.\n<\/p>\n
\n Director Marc Eyre said in a statement that their future \u2018had been in the balance for a while\u2019 as revenue from advertising had become increasingly difficult to secure.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cIt has been our absolute pleasure to be able to share and promote community news and events for all these years. A big thank you to our presenters past and present, our advertisers, particularly Remarkable Carpets who have been an ever-present advertiser, and of course most of all you our listeners.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Mayor of Weymouth, Cllr Caroline Nickinson, said: \u201cFrom coming along to broadcast from the Council\u2019s Community Expo events to soundtracking this year\u2019s summer firework displays, it\u2019s sad to learn that Air 107.2 will no longer be broadcasting to communities from the end of this month. I\u2019d like to wish everyone at the station the very best for the future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Louie O\u2019Leary, representing Littlemoor and Preston, added: \u201cIt\u2019s a big loss. It’s more about the bigger organisations these days. It is a shame.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Plans are underway to celebrate the station\u2019s time serving the community on their last day of broadcasting before officially ceasing to operate on Sunday, November 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air 107.2 confirmed that the platform would cease to operate at the end of the month and thanked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}