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Once upon a time, Tony Gillham, a professional broadcaster with more than 30 years experience, presenting and working for the BBC as well as in local radio, had the idea for a radio station – a radio station for the community, run by the community. With hard work and with loads of help and support from his assembled team of dedicated volunteers, Black Cat Radio Ltd (a not-for profit company) was created and the station was very quickly establishing itself as the ‘voice’ of St Neots. The team’s dedication was rewarded when in 2015, Ofcom granted Black Cat Radio Ltd a full time FM licence. The hard work continued with the station rebranded and launched on 107FM on 17th April 2017.
In 2018, Black Cat Radio Ltd applied for, and was awarded a licence to transmit on DAB+ in Cambridge.
The increase in digital listening and in particular, via smart-speakers prompted us to re-brand on 3rd June 2019 to Black Cat Radio. We are the same station with a brand new sound.
In 2019 we were also given approval by Ofcom to relocate our transmitter to a new site, to increase our power and to change our frequency to 102.5FM. We switched on our new transmitter on 12th December 2020 ensuring that we reach all the parts of our community with a clear signal indoors and outdoors.