Calon FM

Calon FM was a community radio station serving Wrexham and surrounding areas. (Calon means "heart".)

The station was first launched as a RSL radio station, originally covering events at the 2005 Wrexham Science Festival on 87.7 FM. In 2006, the station was granted a 5-year community radio licence. The station officially launched on Saturday 1 March 2008 on 105 FM in Wrexham after a short period of test transmissions.

Calon FM was originally based on the campus of Glyndŵr University on Mold Road, initially based above a recording studio before moving into the Centre for Creative Industries (CCI). In its second incarnation, the station was based at the Wrexham Enterprise Hub in the city centre with its transmitter atop Tŷ Pawb ("Everyone's House").

The station's output consisted of music, features, sport, talk and specialist programming produced and presented by volunteers, including weekly programming in Welsh and other languages.

Besides its primary transmission area, the station could also be heard through much of the central areas of Wrexham County Borough, and parts of southern Flintshire.

In August 2017, Calon FM began carrying live commentaries on Wrexham A.F.C. matches throughout the football season. The station's live coverage ended after two seasons.

Calon FM also won a number of industry awards, including the Wales category in the Radio Academy Nations and Regions Awards twice in a row, in 2013 and 2014.