The area to be covered by the forthcoming Exeter small-scale digital radio network is to be 50 percent larger than originally proposed.
ExeDab, the local consortium chosen by broadcast regulator Ofcom to run the service will now build a three-transmitter network, rather than the two envisaged in its original plans.
With transmitters in the city centre at Exeter College to the north of the city at Hilltop Riding School and in East Devon at Cranbrook Educational Campus, the service will reach 135,000 people in the area, up from the 88,000 originally expected – an increase of more than half.
It will add community stations Phonic FM and Riviera FM to digital radio for the first time, and upgrade Devon commercial station Radio Exe to a high-quality stereo digital service to complement its FM stereo output.
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