Editing Dearne FM

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{{Infobox radio station
| logo = Dearne logo.png
| logo_size = 200px
| name = Dearne FM
| airdate = {{Start date|2003|10|05}}
| last_airdate = {{End date|2020|08|31}}
| frequency = [[FM broadcasting|FM]]: 97.1, 102.0 MHz
| city = Barnsley
| area = [[Barnsley]]
| format = [[Classic Hits]]
| network = 
| owner = [[Bauer Radio|Bauer]]
| sister_stations = 
| coordinates = 
| website = 
}}

'''Dearne FM''' was an [[Independent Local Radio]] station serving [[Barnsley]]. The station was folded into [[Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire]], as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020.

==History==
The station was based at Zenith Park on Whaley Road, [[Barugh Green]], in the north-west of [[Barnsley]]. As a result of cost cutting, Dearne FM co-located with sister stations [[Trax FM]], [[Rother FM]] and [[Ridings FM]] at studios on White Rose Way in [[Doncaster]]. Five other companies competed for Barnsley's FM radio licence.

==Transmitters==
The station was broadcast on 102.0 FM  near [[Ardsley, South Yorkshire|Ardsley]]) in Barnsley and the [[Dearne Valley (South Yorkshire)|Dearne Valley]], and on 97.1 FM ([https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/18784 near] [[Hoylandswaine]] close to the [[A628 road|A628]] and [[A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain numbering scheme|A629]] roundabout) for [[Penistone]] on ''Hunger Hill''. The Ardsley transmitter also broadcast [[Hallam FM]] on 102.9 FM, with whom Dearne FM mainly competed. The 102 FM signal is more powerful than 97.1 FM, which is an off-air relay of 102 FM.

==Programming==
Dearne FM appealed to a family audience playing a mix of current chart hits and the best songs from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and today combined with local news, information and competitions.

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.dearnefm.co.uk/}}
* [http://www.radio-now.co.uk/news103.htm Applications for the Barnsley FM radio licence]
* [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/rau/newsroom/news-release/03/pr020.htm Getting the licence in January 2003]

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[[Category:Radio stations in Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Mass media in Barnsley]]
[[Category:Radio stations established in 2003]]
[[Category:Radio stations disestablished in 2020]]
[[Category:Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Bauer Radio]]
[[Category:Greatest Hits Radio]]