Plans to change Radio Station Manchester XS from a rock and speech service for 35-64 year olds, with a strong commitment to local news, current affairs and interactive debate into an urban contemporary music service featuring music of an Afro-Caribbean origin have been rejected by the media regulator OFCOM.
The bid from Capital XTRA was provisionally agreed by the regulator but it has announced that after public consultation it has rejected the proposals
The station had also requested to reduce the amount of locally-made programming it is required to broadcast from seven daytime hours per day on weekdays and four on Saturday and Sunday, to three daytime hours per day on weekdays, and none at weekends.
