Small scale local dab radio station Coastal Radio which serves Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde on the Blackpool Multiplex provided 60 hours of live radio from the North West’s largest music festival.
Starting on Wednesday drivetime with presenters Hayley Tamaddon and Dan Whiston Coastal had live programming through till midnight in a partnership with Lytham Festival organisers to provide local travel news for festival goers to and from the event.
Not only providing on air transmission, they provided the DJ’s for the VIP Garden area and the main arena with their resident Saturday night/ Sunday afternoon pairing Sam and Aish (Bellez of the Ball / Her House) who warmed up the crowds between the acts from 5pm until the headline act took to the stage.
Owner and founder Paula Davies said “This was a massive event for a newly formed radio station which is less than a year old, to provide such coverage to the scale we did and at an event as iconic as Lytham Festival was such a proud moment for me and the team”.
Headliners for the festival were Jamiroquai (Wednesday) George Ezra (Thursday) Sting (Friday) Lionel Richie (Saturday) Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe (Sunday).
The event, which is organised by Live Nation promoters Cuffe & Taylor, attracted around 100,000 festival goers over the 5 nights.
Festival co-founder Peter Taylor said: “We were delighted to welcome Coastal Radio DAB to Lytham Festival.
“We have had a long relationship with Paula Davies throughout her radio career and applaud the work she is doing to maintain strong local radio on the Fylde coast.”
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