Vixen 101

Vixen 101 is a community radio organisation based in the town of Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.The station has transmitted several Restricted Service Licence 28-day broadcasts and on 20 December 2007 was awarded a five-year community radio licence for the area. The station then began permanent broadcasting on 10 January 2009 on the frequency of 101.8 FM.HistoryThe concept for Vixen came from a local Market Weighton born and bred man, Paul Stellings. By the start of 2002, Stellings had 18 years broadcasting and management experience with Radio Medica, a local hospital radio station. This, together with his involvement with other radio projects in the area, and his work with the Giant Bradley Festival Committee in Market Weighton, led him to thinking that it would be good for the area to set up a temporary radio station to promote the Giant Bradley Festival and Market Weighton's local businesses, and offer local information. Another part of the plan was to provide a very wide music policy, including music from as far back as the 1940s and 1950s, together with specialist music programmes, rarely catered for by other broadcasters.At that time, Market Weighton and the surrounding villages were in the middle of a government-funded regeneration project initiated through Yorkshire Forward, and managed by the, Weighton Area Regeneration Partnership (WARP). With many ideas and new projects starting to take shape in the area, it seemed like a good time and a major step forward in this new dawning era for the area to bring a truly local radio service to the population.