Radio Fox is making a number of changes to its schedule this Autumn, with new shows and new faces to existing programmes.

Nishad Karim is to host a new two hour arts programme on Sunday lunchtimes whilst Tom Nicholls, who currently presents the Friday Patients Requests show and Flashback To The Nineties, takes over the Fox Alternative show on Wednesday evenings.  Jack Nixon will team up with Lisa Allden for the Monday Patients Requests programme whilst Michael Lord takes over the Thursday request slot.

Johnny Bance’s popular Lunchtime Love show moves to a slightly later time of 2pm on Sundays.

The schedule changes come into effect from September 1st.

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Radio Fox was once again at the Leicester Caribbean Carnival at the start of August, and despite the poor weather we managed to produce a great show for listeners in the two hospitals.

A three hour programme was recorded on the back of the Radio Fox float featuring commentary on the parade and interviews with those taking part or watching the event, with each part of the show being raced back to the studio so there was only an hours delay between recording and broadcast!

Radio Fox is hoping to broadcast reports from the Knighton Park Family Fun Day on 6th September where we will be providng the music and PA.  You can also see us at the Syston Carnival on September 5th.

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The latest patientline figures have revealed Radio Fox is the most listened to station in hospital.

Radio Fox achieved a 37% share of the audience at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield Hospitals for the week commencing Monday 11 May.

The nearest rivals to Radio Fox were BBC Radio Two with a 23% share of the audience.

The most listened to programmes were all request related programmes, with the Request Chart also making the top three.

Radio Fox spokesperson Kris Bramwell said: “This just highlights the importance of ward visiting to hospital radio. We are reaping the rewards of having regular interaction with our audience.”

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Radio Fox has just enjoyed the most successful night in its twenty one year history, having come away from this year’s National Hospital Radio Awards with the biggest prize of them all.

The station was given the Gold Award in the Station of the Year category, meaning that Radio Fox has been judged to be the UK’s best hospital radio station! The judges said that on the entry, our presenters sounded like they were enjoying themselves and were passionate about what they did, and that the presenters worked well as a team.

This is the second time Fox has won a Gold award, the first being in 2007 when Sandy Iliff won the Female Presenter Of The Year category. In this year’s awards, Fox also picked up highly commendeds in the Special Event (for our Caribbean Carnival coverage) and Station Promo categories, and commended in the Specialist Music show section (for Les Eastham’s Sixties Scene).

Station Director Steve Hack said of our success: “Wow! I think none of us could really believe we had been awarded Gold in Station of the Year – I’m still taking it in! This is a fantastic tribute to the hard work everyone at Radio Fox puts in to their programmes and it’s a brilliant way to start our 21st year on air.”

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