The Wave is an independent local radio station in South Wales broadcasting from its studios in Gowerton to Swansea and the surrounding area including Llanelli, Neath, Port Talbot on 96.4 MHz, online and on DAB Digital Radio, on the available multiplex of UTV-Bauer Swansea. Broadcasting from the same studios as sister station, Swansea Sound, The Wave plays a mix of contemporary popular music and is owned by UTV Radio. The Wave's transmitter is loc...
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The Wave is an independent local radio station in South Wales broadcasting from its studios in Gowerton to Swansea and the surrounding area including Llanelli, Neath, Port Talbot on 96.4 MHz, online and on DAB Digital Radio, on the available multiplex of UTV-Bauer Swansea. Broadcasting from the same studios as sister station, Swansea Sound, The Wave plays a mix of contemporary popular music and is owned by UTV Radio. The Wave's transmitter is located at Kilvey Hill.
Swansea Sound, which was launched in 1974, decided in 1995 to "split frequencies", a practice that had been widely adopted within the commercial radio industry in order to avoid relinquishing frequencies, so a new station called 96.4 Sound Wave was launched on the FM frequency , while Swansea Sound continued to broadcast as normal on 1170 AM.
The now separate stations are based in the same temporary premises in Gowerton that Swansea Sound first broadcast from in 1974. Sound Wave, unlike Swansea Sound, was categorised as...
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