Dream fm Leeds

From Freeradio

Dream fm was one of the most well known pirates in Yorkshire in the 1990's, it boasted over 30 DJ's and a range of different dance music styles, house, dub, trance, hardcore, funk, soul, acid, jazz, hip, hop techno, chill out to name but a few. Merchandise was allso available through Dream Promotions, which did a mail order service, mix tapes, t-shirts, sweatshirts, record bags, slipmats, car stickers, hats where all available and a list of DJ's and a time table was allso readly availble. Some of the DJ's where Shock, Craig Christon, Greenpeace, Daisy & Havoc, MAR, Paul Taylor.

Broadcasts where first heard on 99.9Mhz, up untill 1994 when the station expanded and moved to 107.8Mhz. A relay was set up in York on 107.6Mhz, then later moved to Wakefield. Dreams broadcasts where always heard over a wide area where ever they choose to broadcast from. Because of the professional nature in which the station was run many people considered to be legal, it actually listed along legal stations such as Aire and Pulse in my school. Dream fm allso featured on Edit V, a program broadcast by Yorkshire TV in 1994 about pirate radio.

In 1995 Dream started its campain to go legal with 'a licence to dream' adverts where played and listeners where asked to write in with letters of support and in turn Dream would use the letters as a petition. As part of the agreement Dream had to go off air for a period of 6 months and when it would come back it would be bigger and better than before. In November 1995 the last transmissions where heard of Dream, 6 months later there was no sign of Dream FM, but in 1997 a licence was awarded to kiss 105 to broadcast across Yorkshire.

In 2000, 5 years after Dream was last heard transmissions started up on 107.5Mhz, thought since then further broadcasts have not been heard.