Premier Christian Radio Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Digital DAB, Freeview and internet=== Premier Christian Radio was at first only available on medium wave in London. It later added broadcasts on the internet via its website, via its mobile app, [[Freeview (UK)|Freeview]] channel 725 (UK and Ireland), Sky Digital (channel 0123, terminated 14 December 2012), [[Virgin Media]] (channel 968, terminated 6 May 2009) and London [[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]] - a national DAB broadcast was added later.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.premierradio.org.uk/listen.aspx| title = Premier Christian Radio - Radioplayer}} </ref> In 2006, the media group launched Premier.tv, one of the first Christian [[IPTV]] channels in the UK. Its 2007 application for a national [[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]] licence, as part of the [[National Grid Wireless]] consortium, was refused; Premier Radio said "almost 72,000 Premier listeners stepped up and made their voices heard in supporting the bid".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071010083919/http://www.premier.org.uk/engine.cfm?i=1082 "Disappointing news"], Premier website. Retrieved 8 January 2008. Archived at the [[Internet Archive]]</ref> In August 2009, Premier achieved its target of meeting the Β£650,000 yearly fee to broadcast on the national [[Digital One]] DAB multiplex and launched on the multiplex on 21 September 2009.<ref name="DigitalOne">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/aug/19/premier-christian-radio-national-dab|title=Premier Christian Radio set for national digital launch|date=19 August 2009|last=Plunkett|first=John|access-date=19 August 2009|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> In 2016, it moved its DAB transmission to the SDL national multiplex which is lower cost but has less complete national coverage. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page