Community Radio
In December 2003 and December 2004 a radio station, Eastgate FM, was launched on a 28-day restricted-service license (RSL). The station broadcast during the run up to Christmas. A previous incarnation of Eastgate FM broadcast in June 1999.
These were the forerunners of an exciting community radio project and since 2007 Eastgate has sponsored and hosted Gateway 97.8 (formally Gateway FM) which broadcasts from a shop studio unit in the Upper Galleries with other facilities dotted around the community.
Gateway won a full time community licence for the area to broadcast for five years from 25 September 2010 on 97.8FM, and provides media and broadcasting training for the community from its Eastgate home. Gateway was declared a winner of Prime Minister David Cameron's Big Society Awards for outstanding community work in December 2011 and in 2012 The Queen gave Gateway the Queens award for voluntary service the MBE for groups
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