New Style Radio

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = New Style Radio

| logo = NewStyleRadio.jpg

| airdate = 14 August 2002

| frequency = 98.7 MHz

| area = Birmingham

| format = African-Caribbean

| owner =

| website = http://www.newstyleradio.co.uk/

}}

New Style Radio 98.7 FM is a community radio station based in Birmingham, England, and broadcasting to the city's African-Caribbean community. The station, launched on 14 August 2002,{{Cite web |title=Birmingham Music Archive |url=https://www.birminghammusicarchive.com/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=birminghammusicarchive.com |language=en-GB}} was born out of 15 years of short-term radio broadcasting and training, including a long run of Restricted Service Licence activities.

The service is intended to be reflective of African-Caribbean culture and aspiration in particular and of multicultural Birmingham in general. It is historic in being the first licensed African-Caribbean radio station in Britain.

New Style Radio is run mainly by unpaid volunteers and is part of the Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre,Registed Charity No 519691 a registered charity set up to support the educational and social needs of the Afro-Caribbean community in the West Midlands.

In 2020, Ofcom censured the station for broadcasting COVID-19 conspiracy theories on a discussion segment.{{Cite news |last=Bland |first=Archie |date=2020-12-08 |title=UK radio station censured over Covid conspiracy theories |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/08/uk-radio-station-censured-over-covid-conspiracy-theories |access-date=2024-04-22 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

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