Xfm

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Xfm is a brand of commercial radio stations focused on current and unsigned alternative music and owned by GCap Media in the United Kingdom. Xfm was created in 1997 in London, but has since expanded to several stations. Each station produces its own content, with little syndication.

Current stations include:

Xfm London has been broadcasting since 1997.
Xfm Manchester was launched on March 15 2006.
Xfm Scotland, previously known as Beat 106, was launched on January 4 2006.

Xfm London, labelled as 'Xfm UK', is also available in most other parts of the country on DAB Radio and worldwide via Internet streaming. Plans are for this service to develop to include a certain amount of regional content such as traffic and news.

Further Xfm stations are planned for major cities in the UK.

DJs

The main DJs are either drawn from other radio stations, the club scene or feature retired muscians and include:

The line up has also included various people already famous outside of radio (usually comedians) who largely do the talking and leave the playing of music to the producers:

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and their producer Karl Pilkington who has acquired some fame due to his work with them.
Justin Lee Collins
Adam and Joe
Jimmy Carr

External links

[Xfm.co.uk]

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