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music breakfast show. Nick
Hennegan, broadcasting as Nick Mobbs, was a volunteer who took over the breakfast show after the Rev Forbes moved to another parish. Australian Frank Warren arrived back at his home in Thamesmead and worked with the voluntary sector to develop the station, turn it into a youth project and move to studios in Tavy Bridge. It was also broadcast in Greenwich for a time on a cable television service there. Towards the end of the 1980s, new management were brought in by the stations backers (the Community Service Volunteers NGO and Thamesmead Town company) with a view to campaigning and applying for a permanent broadcast (FM) license. The station was managed by Bob Smith (deceased) and David Stanley headed the engineering/technical side. An
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on 18 March 1990, having previously broadcast on the area's local cable television service as Radio
Thamesmead, and intended to fulfil a community-style remit, with any profits generated being invested in local regeneration projects. Prior to its full time license, the station operated the first FM
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cable television system (channel L). It was financed originally by the Home Office, due to a fear of flooding before the Thames
Barrier was finished and featured weekly alarm 'rehearsals. The first studio was in the Ecumenical Centre and run by the Rev Patrick Forbes who presented a mainly classical
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engineering code, the station commenced broadcasts from its existing studios at Tavy Bridge, Thamesmead, as RTM Radio transmitting on 103.8 F.M. Transmission was from
Shooters Hill, one of the highest points in London. The station was the first broadcaster in the UK to use an independent company
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Bedfordshire. The station also changed from vertical polarisation to circular using a custom designed antenna from
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in 1997, to link in with the upcoming celebrations at the
Millennium Dome in Greenwich, having successfully amended its minority-orientated programming obligations with the Radio Authority. The station was put up for sale in June 1999, and was purchased by the
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The volunteers of the radio station were given the opportunity to vote on a new name for the station. It was felt that the
Thamesmead name should be dropped to reflect the much wider service area which covered a large part of south east London.
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Sunrise Radio Group put the station up for sale via a message on its website in mid-October 2008, and following disputed claims a buyer had been found, Time 106.8 ceased broadcasting at midnight on Saturday 4 April 2009.
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