Central 103.1 FM

In December 1988, the Independent Broadcasting Authority announced it had chosen the Stirling area as one of twenty areas of the UK where new incremental radio licences were to be awarded. A month later, the regulator advertised the Stirling licence, permitting any station format. Centresound, a community-based station founded by a local community association, began broadcasting on Monday 4 June 1990 from studios at the John Player Building in the Stirling Enterprise Park but within two months, fell into financial difficulties due to problems in attracting enough investment to maintain an independent operation. The board of directors resigned when the long-established Radio Forth went into…