Swansea SW Wales (DAB Multiplex)


Swansea SW Wales is a local commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which serves the Swansea area. It is wholly owned by Bauer Media since they gained control of Wireless Groups local stations in the UK. At around the same time they also got hold of Celador, Lincs FM Group and UKRD. Bauer own Kiss, Magic, Hits Radio, Greatest Hits Radio, Wave 105, GEM Radio and also Absolute Radio.
The service was launched on 31 January 2004. It was originally labelled TWG-Emap Swansea and then UTV-Bauer Swansea, but in 2010 changed to Swansea SW Wales. It is transmitted on frequency block 12A from the Carmel, Kilvey Hill and St. Hilary transmitters.
Other transmitters: Mynydd Sylen transmitter near Llanelli; Carmarthen transmitter, Carmarthen.
Bauer is the multiplex owner and it can be heard as far as Newport in the South East Wales and to the south Western super mare and North Devon coast.

Transmitted stations

The following stations are transmitted on the Swansea SW Wales multiplex
ServiceService IDBit rateAudio channelsDescriptionAnalogue availability
BBC Radio CymruC347128 kbit/sJoint stereoThe national Welsh-language service from the BBC92.4-96.8, 103.5-104.9 MHz
BBC Radio WalesC438128 kbit/sJoint stereoTalk, news and music for WalesVarious FM
657, 882 kHz
Heart South WalesCDCE112 kbit/sJoint stereoHot adult contemporary musicVarious FM
106.0 for Swansea, 105.40 MHz for South Wales.
Swansea SoundC8CE128 kbit/sJoint stereoClassic hits1170 kHz
The Wave 96.4 FMC5B5128 kbit/sJoint stereoContemporary and chart music and information station for under 44s96.4 MHz
Hits Radio UK????112 kbit/sJoint stereoContemporary and chart music
Country Hits Radio????????Joint stereoCountry music
Absolute Classic Rock????????Joint stereoClassic rock music
Magic Chilled????????Joint steroSoft adult contemporary music
Magic Soul????????Joint stereoSoul music