96 Trent FM



Trent FM is an Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts from Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Its frequencies are 96.2 (Nottingham) and 96.5 (Mansfield) megahertz in the FM band - and the station is also available on DAB.

Launched July 3, 1975 as Radio Trent with an original line up of DJs featuring former Radio Luxembourg presenter Kid Jensen, Graham Knight and Chris Baird (who both moved to BBC Radio Derby later in their careers, and Knight on to BBC Radio 2 later on), Jeff Cooper (who had come from BBC) and Guy Morris, the station initially broadcast on FM and medium wave, the station began transmissions to neighbouring Derbyshire in 1987. Renamed Trent FM in 1988, it launched a separate oldies-format service, GEM-AM, on its medium wave frequencies.

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