{"id":8779,"date":"2019-05-23T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2019-05-23T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T06:37:00","slug":"forest-fm-celebrates-20-years-of-local-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/forest-fm-celebrates-20-years-of-local-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest FM celebrates 20 years of local radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verwood-based radio station Forest FM is celebrating two decades of broadcasting this weekend, as the team covers the Verwood Carnival for the 20th time.<\/p>\n<p>Forest FM started life in 1999 as Verwood FM, broadcasting on a temporary licence from the Radio Academy. It was many years later when it was granted a permanent licence that it changed its name to Forest FM to reflect a slightly larger coverage area.<\/p>\n<p>The station will once again be in the procession and providing music and entertainment from its outside broadcast unit at the Carnival.<\/p>\n<p>Station founder Steve Saville told VerwoodToday.co.uk: &#8220;I never imagined we&#8217;d still be doing this twenty years later &#8211; but it certainly hasn&#8217;t lost the buzz and excitement and we love doing live broadcasts from local community events. A few beers may be consumed!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plans are underway to improve the FM signal of the service, and a \u00a37,000 donation has been granted from the National Lottery Awards for All fund. The changes are subject to approval from the radio regulator Ofcom.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a flashback to &#8217;99:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/verwoodfm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verwood-based radio station Forest FM is celebrating two decades of broadcasting this weekend, as the team covers the Verwood Carnival for the 20th time. Forest FM started life in 1999&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-forest-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}