Changing Hands
The station was sold to Forward Media in 1999, backed by venture capital finance and chaired by David Maker. This is when the station had its hey-day with the largest ever listening figures.
In 2004 the station was bought by The Local Radio Company Plc. who started large scale networked programmes, which saw the local audience diminish.
In June 2008, Dune FM was bought from TLRC by NIOCOM Limited, and renamed Dune 107.9.
January 2011 saw the station transferred to the ownership of Southport Radio Limited, a group headed by local DJ Jon Jessop. Essentially the same group that broadcast a number of RSL's to the town under the Southport Radio name. The station was relaunched in February 2011 under the original name of Dune FM.
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