Editing Trax FM

{{Short description|Former radio station in England}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox radio station
| logo = Trax FM logo.png
| name = Trax FM
| airdate = {{Start date|1998|11|22}}
| last_airdate = {{End date|2020|09|01}}
| frequency = [[FM broadcasting|FM]]:<br>107.1&nbsp;MHz <small>([[Doncaster]])</small><br />107.9&nbsp;MHz <small>([[Bassetlaw District|Bassetlaw]])</small><br />[[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]]: 11C
| rds = TRAX_FM_
| city = [[Doncaster]]
| area = [[South Yorkshire]] and north [[Nottinghamshire]]
| format = [[Adult Contemporary]]
| network = 
| owner = [[Bauer Radio|Bauer]]
| website = 
| webcast = 
}}

'''Trax FM''' was an [[Independent Local Radio]] station serving [[Doncaster]] in [[South Yorkshire]] and the [[Bassetlaw District|Bassetlaw]] district of north [[Nottinghamshire]]. The station was folded into [[Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire]], as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020.

==History==
The station started as two separate licences, one for Doncaster and one for Bassetlaw. Previously the station had operated two "RSL" 28-day broadcasts.

In 2020, Trax FM, along with the other [[Lincs FM Group]] stations, were sold to [[Bauer Media]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2020/05/most-of-acquired-bauer-stations-to-become-greatest-hits-radio/|title=Most of acquired Bauer stations to become Greatest Hits Radio|date=May 27, 2020|accessdate=Oct 2, 2020}}</ref> and the station was rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio in September 2020, as part of their national [[Greatest Hits Radio]] network.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Waterson|first=Jim|date=2020-08-31|title=Bauer closes dozens of regional radio stations in England and Wales|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/aug/31/merger-of-bauer-local-radio-stations-criticised-as-cultural-vandalism|access-date=2020-09-29|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> It now broadcasts national and regional music programmes with local news bulletins.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Paessler|first=Benjamin|date=27 August 2020|title=Presenters announced for Greatest Hits Radio in Salisbury|url=https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18679709.presenters-announced-greatest-hits-radio-salisbury/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-29|website=Salisbury Journal|language=en}}</ref>

==Transmitters==
The service for Doncaster broadcasts on 107.1FM<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.traxfm.co.uk/pages/home.asp?servername=traxdoncaster#section3529 |title=Trax FM 107.1 Doncaster |accessdate=27 May 2007 |publisher=Lincs FM Group |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507152910/http://www.traxfm.co.uk/pages/home.asp?servername=traxdoncaster |archivedate=7 May 2006 }}</ref> previously from the studios on White Rose Way in Doncaster. The signal is broadcast from the Clifton transmitter, near [[Conisbrough]], [[South Yorkshire]]. That signal is five times more powerful than the former Worksop transmitter. In 2015, transmissions moved to an antenna on Silverwood House in the centre of Doncaster.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=2148|title=Doncaster (Silverwood House)|publisher=MB21|accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref>

The service for Bassetlaw is on 107.9FM<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.traxfm.co.uk/pages/home.asp?servername=traxbassetlaw |title=Trax FM 107.9 Bassetlaw |accessdate=27 May 2007 |publisher=Lincs FM Group |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211011843/http://www.traxfm.co.uk/pages/home.asp?servername=traxbassetlaw |archivedate=11 December 2004 }}</ref> used to come from the studios on Bridge Street in [[Worksop]]. The signal was transmitted from the Worksop transmitter, north of Worksop in [[Bassetlaw District|Bassetlaw]] next to the [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/801393 B6045] towards [[Blyth, Nottinghamshire|Blyth]], north [[Nottinghamshire]]. In 2016, transmissions moved to a transmitter at Worksop Golf Course to the south of the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=2115|title=Worksop Golf Course|publisher=MB21|accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref> The transmitter provides coverage to Worksop town and rural areas to the west of [[Retford]].

Trax FM was also broadcast across [[South Yorkshire]] and the [[North Midlands]] on [[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]] Digital Radio on the [[Bauer Radio|Bauer South Yorkshire]] (former EMAP South Yorkshire) [[Multiplexing|multiplex]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emapdigitalradio.com/edr/m_southyorkshire.shtml|title=EMAP Digital Radio - South Yorkshire Multiplex|accessdate=27 May 2007|publisher=EMAP}}</ref> and on the [[Internet]]. Trax FM on DAB and the Internet carried the Doncaster variation of the station.

==Background==
Trax FM co-located the Bassetlaw service to Doncaster in 2007,<ref name="Doncaster">{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.1761 |title=Trax FM departs Bassetlaw |date=16 March 2007 |accessdate=17 March 2007 |publisher=Radio Today |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094026/http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.1761 |archivedate=29 September 2007 }}</ref> despite the original 107.9 station ownership being crucial in getting the more lucrative Doncaster licence. The format change includes a reduction in the hours of local broadcasting from seven hours to four hours.<ref name="co-locate">{{cite web|url=http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/formats/formats/fc/traxfm.pdf|title=Format Change Request Form OfW 332|accessdate=17 March 2007|date=October 2006|publisher=Ofcom |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013148/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/formats/formats/fc/traxfm.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 30 September 2007}}</ref>

[[File:Beacon hill telecoms masts - geograph.org.uk - 669112.jpg|thumb|right|Clifton transmitter on Beacon Hill, north of the [[M18 motorway|M18]], former transmitter of Trax FM on FM and current transmitter of Trax FM on DAB via the Sheffield multiplex. ]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.traxfm.co.uk/}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040504222614/http://www.geocities.com/thehotw/aircheck_UKNotts.htm  History of local radio in Nottinghamshire].
* [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/rau/newsroom/news-release/99/pr020.htm Awarded licence in February 1999]
* [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/rau/newsroom/Appraisal/doncaster.htm Applications for the Doncaster licence]
* [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/clifton.php Clifton transmitter]
* [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/worksop.php Worksop transmitter]

===Audio clips===
* [http://www.mediafire.com/?ljozmzttykx 1998 jingles]

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[[Category:Radio stations in Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Mass media in Doncaster]]
[[Category:Radio stations in Nottinghamshire]]
[[Category:Bassetlaw District]]
[[Category:Radio stations established in 1998]]
[[Category:Radio stations disestablished in 2020]]
[[Category:Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Bauer Radio]]
[[Category:Greatest Hits Radio]]