Editing Tower FM (section)

==Overview==
[[File:Tower FM logo.png|200px|thumb|Tower FM logo used from 2010 to 2016.]]
[[File:Tower FM logo 2016.png|thumb|Final logo used from 2016 to 2020.]]
The radio station was given the name ''Tower'' as a local link to both towns in the station's coverage area; [[Turton Tower]] near to Bolton and [[Peel Tower]] on Holcombe Hill at [[Ramsbottom]] near Bury.

Originally an RSL (restricted service licence) radio station, the team behind the project won the full-time licence and the station began broadcasting on 20 March 1999.

As an RSL, Tower FM broadcast from Bury via a link to the transmitter on Peel Tower. The station later moved to Bolton once the main base was established on Gaskell Street.

Both towns served as the main target service area for the station, although it could also be heard in most of Greater Manchester and even parts of Cheshire.

In early 2007, the station's then-owners approached UK media regulator OFCOM to ask permission to move the station's base from Bolton to the Haydock or Newton Le Willows area of Merseyside as part of a plan to co-locate Tower with two other stations from the [[UTV Media]] group - [[Wish FM]] in Wigan and [[Wire FM]] in [[Warrington]].

The original plan was abandoned but from the autumn of 2009, all three stations were based at studios in the [[Orrell, Greater Manchester|Orrell]] area of Wigan.