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- 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), and Jeff Cooper 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. Taken over by the GWR Group in 1993, the Nottingham and Mansfield FM services were branded 96 Trent FM, while the Derby service became known as RAM FM. The medium wave GEM-AM service was then sold off, to become Classic Gold GEM. By spring 2005, Trent found itself owned by GCap Media, after GWR Group's merger with Capital Radio Group. It became part of GCap's One Network brand, a network of FM and DAB music stations across southern England, the English Midlands and Wales. The station changed hands again in 2008 when Global Radio bought GCap Media. After thirty-one years based at a converted hospital building in the historic street leading to Nottingham Castle, the station began broadcasting from new studios at the Chapel Quarter development at Chapel Bar, at midday on January 9 2007. Trent lost the 96 prefix in its name in July 2007, to become once again Trent FM. One June 30th 2008 "The Hit Music Network" was launched from the Chapel Quarter complex. This network serves Trent FM, Ram FM, Leicester Sound, Ten 17, Mercury (Watford) and Mercury FM in Surrey. Although part of the same network, Capital FM and Red Dragon FM air locally produced programming 24 hours a day. The Hit Music Network is based in the same studio complex as Trent FM.
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