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Classic FM

Classic FM has a mission, to make classical music accessible and relevant to a modern audience through its engaging style. And as one of the top three commercial radio stations in the UK, with 5.6 million listeners tuning in every week, and with its truly national FM coverage, Classic FM's fresh approach to classical music does exactly that.

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How to Watch: Classic FM

Below is a list of all the television and radio channels that you can watch in the UK using one of the free services: DAB (for radio), Freeview, Sky No Card - Sky without a viewing card (Freesat from Sky (or fSfS)) and Freesat.. Where a channel can be watched for free, the channel number is listed below. In addition, if you can watch (or listen) immediately online, press the button in the "web" column.

As some channels are exclusive to one service alone, you may need to get receive more than one service to get all the channels you want. The coverage for Freeview differs too - those channels not provided by the public service "Freeview Light" transmitters the current coverage shown thus (54%), taken from Connected Nations Report 2017: Data analysis'

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Radio stations

	Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
	Classic FM	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	731 (90%)	0106	721

Regional content: National channel with no regional content or variations.

media.info: For full details of broadcaster contacts, see the media.info link icon

media.info Classic FM page.

Official site: See the www.classicfm.com link icon

Classic FM website.

From Wikipedia: As well as playing older music, the station plays several modern film scores. It had been operating a trial programme on its AM frequencies in Wiltshire and Bristol, testing audience reaction to a regular drive-time programme of popular classical music. Time Warner agreed to back the project but was prohibited under then current UK law from owning more than a 25 interest. - en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org link icon

read more about Classic FM on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

Freeview multiplex: Classic FM is on multiplex COM5 in england flag

Comments

Monday, 11 April 2011

Lilian Morgan
7:53 AM

I have no problem getting classic FM on a radio here im Swansea, but got themessage that there was when I took it to in Monmouthshire to try it out.

Can you tell me what is wrong?

Lilian Morgan

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Briantist

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7:56 AM

Lilian Morgan: Much as the One shows:

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Sunday, 8 February 2015

Mike Savison

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10:46 AM
Wetherby

Classic FM on - biggest joke so far. 64kbit/s MONO - WHAT ??? Digital Radio is continuing to be the current biggest con-trick in the UK, (after in my opinion). Compare the of elsewhere in Europe(Germany in particular)
DIGITALBITRATE : Digital channels bitrate Satellite, Dtt and more - -
The site is a bit techy but shows compromise after compromise features in current British broadcasting, TV and Radio all in the name of quantity versus quality. .

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MikeB

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5:54 PM

Mike Savison: If you dont like the birate via (which most people dont bother using for radio anyway), then use the web. Frankly, considering Classic FM's limited and uninspiring playlist, a search around the web for classical stations (of which there are possibly hundreds) would be a great choice.

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Monday, 16 February 2015

Mike Davison

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10:02 AM
Wetherby

MikeB - yes, that's a good alternative and perhaps the internet is making all broadcasting obsolete. I am involved with community radio(Tempo FM) and locally, and obviously, Band 2 FM is our major outlet but we have an internet stream available and where there is internet, we can be heard, effectively leap-frogging . I am sure this is the most effective alternative to DAB. It's certainly easier and cheaper to setup for what you get.
P.S. the 'S' instead of 'D' was a touch of dyslexic fingers.

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Mike Davison

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10:04 AM
Wetherby

I mean broadcasting by RF of course.

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Wednesday, 15 December 2021

A Bridge
8:07 PM

Iin , Wiltshire several free to air are not available on TV, Drama, Classic FM for example, WHY please

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StevensOnln1

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11:51 PM

A Bridge: If you're receiving the , it's a lite transmitter which broadcasts only the PSB multiplexes and not the rest of the commercial as it only serves around 4,300 homes which is too small an audience for the commercial broadcasters to be interested in paying for the equipment and running costs of broadcastings all of their channels.

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