Swansea SW Wales (DAB Multiplex)

Swansea SW Wales is a local commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which serves the Swansea area. It is wholly owned by Bauer Media since they gained control of Wireless Groups local stations in the UK. At around the same time they also got hold of Celador, Lincs FM Group and UKRD. Bauer own Kiss, Magic, Hits Radio, Greatest Hits Radio, Wave 105 (South Coast), GEM Radio (East Midlands) and also Absolute Radio.

Swansea SW Wales
Licensed areaSwansea
Frequency12A (223.936 MHz)
Air date31 January 2004
OwnerBauer Radio
TransmittersKilvey Hill, St. Hilary, Carmel, Mynydd Sylen, Carmarthen.[1]

[2] The service was launched on 31 January 2004. It was originally labelled TWG-Emap Swansea and then UTV-Bauer Swansea, but in 2010 changed to Swansea SW Wales. It is transmitted on frequency block 12A from the Carmel, Kilvey Hill and St. Hilary transmitters. Other transmitters: Mynydd Sylen transmitter near Llanelli; Carmarthen transmitter, Carmarthen. Bauer is the multiplex owner and it can be heard as far as Newport in the South East Wales and to the south Western super mare and North Devon coast.

[1]

Transmitted stations

The following stations are transmitted on the Swansea SW Wales multiplex (there is room on the multiplex following the removal of Heat and Kisstory)

Service Service ID Bit rate Audio channels Description Analogue availability
BBC Radio Cymru C347 128 kbit/s Joint stereo The national Welsh-language service from the BBC 92.4-96.8, 103.5-104.9 MHz
BBC Radio Wales C438 128 kbit/s Joint stereo Talk, news and music for Wales Various FM
657, 882 kHz
Heart South Wales CDCE 112 kbit/s Joint stereo Hot adult contemporary music Various FM
106.0 for Swansea, 105.40 MHz for South Wales.
Swansea Sound C8CE 128 kbit/s Joint stereo Classic hits 1170 kHz (Swansea & surrounding area)
The Wave 96.4 FM C5B5 128 kbit/s Joint stereo Contemporary and chart music and information station for under 44s 96.4 MHz (Swansea & surrounding area)
Hits Radio UK ???? 112 kbit/s Joint stereo Contemporary and chart music
Country Hits Radio ???? ???? Joint stereo Country music
Absolute Classic Rock ???? ???? Joint stereo Classic rock music
Magic Chilled ???? ???? Joint stero Soft adult contemporary music
Magic Soul ???? ???? Joint stereo Soul music

[3]

gollark: I have an RTL-SDR but don't use it much, are there any cool things I can do without much additional hardware?
gollark: The UK is weird and apparently it actually *is* illegal to receive "wireless telegraphy" or something like that without permission.
gollark: Hmm. Sounds problematic, I guess.
gollark: What's wrong with YARC?
gollark: It's *a* possible use of it.

References
  1. "OFT closed case: Anticipated acquisition by Bauer Radio Limited of TIML Golden Square Limited (Absolute Radio) [Case Decision]" (PDF). U.K. government. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2018."Bauer Radio Ltd / TIML Golden Square Ltd". GOV.UK. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  2. See 'End Notes' on page 28 of "OFT closed case: Anticipated acquisition by Bauer Radio Limited of TIML Golden Square Limited (Absolute Radio) [Case Decision]" (PDF). U.K. government. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2018."Bauer Radio Ltd / TIML Golden Square Ltd". GOV.UK. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
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