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NITON RADIO/GNI
- Closedown

last update 27 April 1998

During the month of May 1997, United Kingdom coast radio stations
broadcast the following information at their weather broadcast times:-

The following MF and VHF channels will close at midnight on 31st May 1997:-

NITON RADIO - MF Channel Uniform

SHETLAND RADIO - VHF Ch.27

NITON RADIO - VHF Ch.85

CLYDE RADIO - VHF Ch.26

At the same time, NITON RADIO/GNI will cease all WT services.

HASTINGS RADIO - VHF Ch.66 will cease on 16th June 1997.

= Maritime Radio Service 071200z May '97 +

Niton Radio/GNI - 1997

And so, after 97 years, there ceased to be a manned ship-to-shore communications stations on the Isle of Wight.

The name of Niton Radio can still be heard, but a shadow of it's former self. The staff have gone and the old transmitter site has closed. MF RT broadcasting operations continue, now coming via a small remotely-controlled transmitter installed in the old receiving/operations building. VHF operations also continue, again remotely controlled.

In common with other UK coast stations, even these services are expected to vanish from sight before the millenium dawns.