107.8 Academy FM, Thanet’s community radio station, began broadcasting at 12 noon on 5th April 2010 (Easter Monday). It is broadcast 24 hours a day from Ramsgate’s Marlowe Academy under a five year license awarded by OFCOM.

The station is managed by Pete Willson, well known to local radio audiences in Thanet, with support from Deputy Station Manager Mike Stevens, a small army of volunteers and crucially from staff and students at The Marlowe Academy, for whom this presents an outstanding opportunity to get hands-on experience in the technical, presentational and business aspects of running a real-live radio station.

Students gain an insight into how to prepare and present radio programmes, how to operate equipment and generally how to run a business. The station is a registered charity and the students have a key role to play in helping generate the funds to maintain the operation, the Academy itself having specialist Creative Arts and Enterprise status.

Click here to download the Academy FM Briefing Document.

To find out more and see programme schedules please visit the Academy FM website