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Welcome to Wey Valley Radio
Welcome to the official site of the original Wey Valley Radio, set up by the people who were involved from the start in the late 1980s.
Wey Valley Radio was the 92nd commercial radio station in the UK when licensed in 1992 and at that time the smallest radio station in the country. The station originally covered just 25,000 people in the Alton and Bordon region of North East Hampshire, before expanding it's coverage.
The concept was to create a service that was unique and involved as many people in the area as possible. It was true community radio but working in a commercial radio world, so throughout it's history many compromises had to be made to keep the dream alive. The station broadcast from Alton for eleven years and despite changing its name to Delta in 1998, the ethos behind the station survived.
Due to a desperate need to cut costs we then shared Delta Radio's Haslemere premises, however the station was still much loved. Eventually, the owners of the station who had effectively been funding it since 1994, decided enough was enough and sold it to a local newspaper and then the rest is history.
As of 2010 the area now has no true local station. The transmitters now broadcast a service from Basingstoke, hardly what was originally planned back in 1992!
This website has been set up to look back at what Wey Valley and Delta was like all those years ago, right up to 2003. We hope we'll be able to bring you many hours of shows, jingles, adverts and photos.
We also hope the station will return soon with a new 2010 service, even if initially in an online form. Ultimately, we intend to run a one month FM service from Alton and/or Bordon with the aim of obtaining another community licence to broadcast in the area, hopefully by 2012 - 20 years after the original launch on 22nd November 1992.
The Wey Valley Radio Team.
Welcome to the official site of the original Wey Valley Radio, set up by the people who were involved from the start in the late 1980s.
Wey Valley Radio was the 92nd commercial radio station in the UK when licensed in 1992 and at that time the smallest radio station in the country. The station originally covered just 25,000 people in the Alton and Bordon region of North East Hampshire, before expanding it's coverage.
The concept was to create a service that was unique and involved as many people in the area as possible. It was true community radio but working in a commercial radio world, so throughout it's history many compromises had to be made to keep the dream alive. The station broadcast from Alton for eleven years and despite changing its name to Delta in 1998, the ethos behind the station survived.
Due to a desperate need to cut costs we then shared Delta Radio's Haslemere premises, however the station was still much loved. Eventually, the owners of the station who had effectively been funding it since 1994, decided enough was enough and sold it to a local newspaper and then the rest is history.
As of 2010 the area now has no true local station. The transmitters now broadcast a service from Basingstoke, hardly what was originally planned back in 1992!
This website has been set up to look back at what Wey Valley and Delta was like all those years ago, right up to 2003. We hope we'll be able to bring you many hours of shows, jingles, adverts and photos.
We also hope the station will return soon with a new 2010 service, even if initially in an online form. Ultimately, we intend to run a one month FM service from Alton and/or Bordon with the aim of obtaining another community licence to broadcast in the area, hopefully by 2012 - 20 years after the original launch on 22nd November 1992.
The Wey Valley Radio Team.