Editing Kerrang! Radio (section)

===Return to digital-only platforms===
On 23 May 2013, Bauer Media announced that the output of older-skewing DAB rock station [[Planet Rock (radio station)|Planet Rock]] (which they had acquired three months earlier) would become available on FM in the West Midlands, taking over Kerrang! Radio's 105.2 FM broadcast frequency. Kerrang! Radio transmitted its final FM broadcast just three weeks later, on 14 June, and the station's studios in Birmingham city centre were permanently closed.<ref name=BhamLive2013 /> A reduced Kerrang! service would continue, with some of the same DJs, as a young-focused rock service through the local DAB platform, digital TV and online, but all programming on both stations would come from Bauer's London premises.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2013/06/life-after-fm-for-digital-kerrang-radio/ |title=Life after FM for digital Kerrang! Radio |date=13 Jun 2013 |website=[[Radio Today (website)|Radio Today]]}}</ref> The digital footprint of Kerrang! was largely unchanged, though this was not universal and omitted some areas of the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ukfree.tv/radio/digitalstations/Kerrang! |title=Details of Kerrang DAB radio station |website=ukfree.tv |access-date=11 August 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507030000/https://ukfree.tv/radio/digitalstations/Kerrang! |archive-date=7 May 2015}}</ref> In August 2013, the closure of the regional MXR digital radio multiplex for the West Midlands saw Kerrang! among several stations rolled down to the Birmingham-area local multiplex, meaning that the station disappeared from DAB in some parts of the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2013/08/double-blow-for-kerrang-radio-listeners/ |title=Double-blow for Kerrang! Radio listeners |date=29 Aug 2013 |website=[[Radio Today (website)|Radio Today]]}}</ref>

On 12 December 2014, carriage of Kerrang! Radio on DAB outside London ceased, with the station turning over almost all its transmission areas to [[Absolute Radio 90s]]; this was in preparation for the removal of Absolute 90s from [[Digital One]] in favour of [[Magic 105.4 FM]] in January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2014/12/kerrang-disappears-completely-in-the-west-midlands/ |title=Kerrang! disappears from DAB in the West Midlands |date=12 December 2014 |website=[[Radio Today (website)|Radio Today]]}}</ref> Kerrang! remained available in London by moving to the slot previously home to [[Absolute Radio 00s]]. Kerrang! continues to broadcast nationally via Freeview and online platforms as before. The reduction in Kerrang!'s DAB footprint saw the station become unavailable to radio listeners in Birmingham, in the former FM licence area.

Following the departure of breakfast presenter Kate Lawler to [[Virgin Radio UK]] in early 2016, a schedule reshuffle promoted Jake Thomson to breakfast, with his prior daytime show taken over by former [[In:Demand]] host Alex James.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/02/breakfast-show-changes-at-kerrang-radio/ |title=Breakfast show changes at Kerrang! Radio |first=Roy |last=Martin |date=17 Feb 2016 |website=[[Radio Today (website)|Radio Today]]}}</ref>

In July 2017, Sophie Kostrowski joined the station to host the weekday breakfast show, as the replacement for Jake Thomson who moved to the weekend breakfast show on classic-dance music station [[Kisstory]].{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

In December 2017, the UK's biggest club night [[Propaganda (indie club night)|Propaganda]] began broadcasting their own radio show on Kerrang! every Saturday night from 7pm to 10pm, presented by resident DJ Gabby Sanderson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thepropaganda.com/propaganda-launches-radio-show-on-kerrang-radio/ |title=Propaganda launches radio show on Kerrang! Radio |first=Jamie |last=Cotton |date=28 Nov 2017 |website=thepropaganda.com}}</ref>

On 23 May 2018, the London DAB transmission of Kerrang! Radio ceased with the station removed, along with [[Absolute Radio 70s]], to make way for Bauer's new [[contemporary hit radio]] station Hits Radio. Kerrang! continues to broadcast nationally over Freeview and online and on the Dundee DAB area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://planetradio.co.uk/kerrang/entertainment/music/changes-to-listening-to-kerrang-radio-in-london/ |title=Changes to listening to Kerrang! Radio in London |date=16 May 2018 |work=[[Bauer Radio]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223659/https://planetradio.co.uk/kerrang/entertainment/music/changes-to-listening-to-kerrang-radio-in-london/ |archive-date=17 May 2018}}</ref>

On 23 March 2021, Kerrang! returned to Stoke & Stafford and Bradford & Huddersfield DAB.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wohnort.org/DAB/ukloc.html|title=DAB Ensembles WorldWide &#124; UK Local & Small-Scale|access-date=23 March 2021|archive-date=4 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004000138/http://wohnort.org/DAB/ukloc.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In September 2023, it was announced that Kerrang! Radio would be made available on [[Sound Digital]] as a DAB+ station from October, making it available nationally via over-the-air radio for the first time.<ref>[https://www.bauermedia.co.uk/news/absolute-radio-country-and-absolute-classic-rock-go-national-on-dab/ Bauer Media, 2023-09-26]</ref> This was followed in March 2024 by the announcement that Kerrang!, along with most other Bauer-owned stations, would be withdrawn from the Freeview TV service as of 2 April ([[Absolute Radio]] remaining on the platform until May),<ref>[https://bebroadcast.co.uk/bauer-radio-stations-leave-freeview-transition-digital-listening/ BeBroadcast.co.uk]</ref> ending Kerrang! Radio's transmission on television guides after a run of over 21 years.