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Red Kite Radio is a local radio station based in Haddenham Oxfordshire, England, broadcasting to Haddenham, Thame, Chinnor and surrounding villages and hamlets. It has an FM broadcast licence from Ofcom as a Community Radio Station. It broadcasts on 107.2MHz FM and also on the internet. It is a not-for-profit station and is run entirely by volunteers, many of whom have worked in the broadcast media industry.

The first official broadcast began at 07:00 on Sunday 18th June and was hosted by Mark Chapple.

HISTORY

Initially created as a pop-up station in 2013 to help promote the local summer beer festival.

You can see an early video of Mark Chapple in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3cdIjomCCM and Mark can be seen again on the launch day here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_jzXXTdsE

Videos courtesy of haddenham.net

Summerfest Radio gained a good listenership over it's four years and was formally rebranded as Red Kite Radio under the company name Red Kite Radio and Media Ltd in 2016. It began broadcasting full-time on the 18th June 2017.

Later in 2017, several founder members of the station decided to leave due to personal / creative differences and the station management was taken over by the volunteers.