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Letter from Radio Frontier - New Lake Geneva Station Expands Listenership

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386580Radio Frontier has been on-air for four and half months now and is quickly expanding its outreach on both sides of the border. The station has already created a listening community of over 20,000 people in the region and we continue to grow each month. While still not yet on your car radio, people are listening on their computers, their internet radios, on ipads, iphones and smartphones of all types. There's a real digital switch-over going on which we're all part of, so next year Radio Frontier will move onto the new DAB (digital) networks available on the French-speaking Swiss side as well as in neighbouring France.

This will provide the station a broadcast footprint of over two million people. Radio Frontier is working on getting an FM licence but this will take a little more time.Listeners can download a free Radio Frontier app. for iphone and ipads from the app stores and a free android app from the android app store. Blackberry, Samsung and all other smartphone users should listen to us via the free Tunein app.

Radio Frontier has been out and about in the commnunity on weekends at all the largest Anglophone events in the region; the station has also been developing community programming. It has been running free community ads for the groups and associations in the area. "We believe that we're creating the building blocks for a real public-spirited radio approach to the region for the international community," noted director Peter Sibley. The station is also being listened to in over 90 countries which is a strange anomaly of internet radio.

A sample of Radio Frontier output. Many of you will know Harriet Martin, who is stationed in Sudan at the moment. She had a great interview with presenter Mark Butcher, which you can listen to again if you go to the homepage Features section or click here. Mark Butcher's Breakfast show is now running from 7am to 11am, a little later than when we started.

We are constantly running great competitions and they are always very easy questions to answer, click on the competitions button on the homepage. You can enter a competition to win a wi-fi radio if you spot the Radio Frontier car, which should be pretty easy judging by the amount of mileage they're doing in it. We have vouchers for the spa 'After the Rain', breakfasts at The Clubhouse, tickets for James Blunt and for the International Comedy Club, wine from Worldwide Wines at St Genis, amongst high value prizes like skis and snowboards.

Our B.A.D.J has got off the ground now with teenagers of 16 plus and twenty somethings, hosting a two hour DJ session. For aspiring older DJ's we are launching 'Slipped Discs' offering older adults the chance to come in with a friend and chat through a selection of their favorite songs. Our first Slipped Disc DJs will be Stephen Baird, the headmaster of Geneva English School and Duncan Sparkes of Proctor and Gamble.

If you and a friend would be interested in this then contact Alvaro at •This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it• GES headmaster Stephen Baird is going to launch 'Slipped Discs' with his choice of music in a few weeks time - watch this space.
From November we'll also be privileged to welcome world-renowned pirate DJ Emperor Rosko (Radio Caroline and Radio 1in their earliest years and also the DJ who inspired the character of ‘The Count' in the film ‘The Boat that Rocked') to Radio Frontier. He'll be presenting a 2 hour weekly show with a classic mix of his favourite songs on weekdays and weekends.

Make sure you go on and 'like' our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, and sign up on our VIP registration site for newsletters and special competitions.

If you're involved in an event you can simply post it up for free on our events pages, (just send a note to •This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it• ) and if you're a community group you can add it to our community directory. If you run, or are involved in, a local business you can post the details for free on our business directory, and the same for sports organisations.
If you have a local news story or a view on a news story we're running simply send our newsroom an email at •This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it• .

If you know of anyone who might be interested in advertising or sponsorship of programmes then please direct them to us.
Finally, thank you for your fantastic support and goodwill and keep listening and looking at the website.

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