Editing Dune FM (section)

== Changing hands ==
Dune FM was sold to [[Forward Media]] in 1999, backed by venture capital finance and chaired by David Maker, at a time when the station claimed its highest listening figures.

In 2004, the station was bought by [[The Local Radio Company]] Plc.<ref name="cr-TRLC_Purchase">{{Cite web |url=http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.74 |title=Radio Today with United Radio..: TLRC buys Dune FM |access-date=7 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602114420/http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.74 |archive-date=2 June 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> who introduced networked programming. In June 2008, Dune FM was bought from TLRC by NIOCOM Limited,<ref name="cr-NIOCOM_Purchase">{{Cite web |url=http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.3471 |title=Radio Today with United Radio..: Cheshire FM boss buys Dune |access-date=7 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612144659/http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.3471 |archive-date=12 June 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and renamed Dune 107.9.

January 2011 saw the station transferred to the ownership of Southport Radio Limited, a group headed by local DJ Jon Jessop and including many of the original group who ran RSL broadcasts under the 'Southport Radio' moniker. The station relaunched again in February 2011 under the original name of Dune FM.