A child hospital radio host has been shortlisted for a national broadcasting award.

Fourteen year old Nathan Lord has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category at this years Hospital Broadcasting Awards.

On being shortlisted, Nathan said: “I am elated. I have really enjoyed my last year with Radio Fox.”

Nathan’s recognition means Radio Fox have won awards for ten consecutive years.

Radio Fox Station Director Steve Hack said: “I am delighted that Fox is once again represented at these prestigious awards. For us to be shortlisted for ten consecutive years is testament to the hard work everyone at the station has put into their programmes.”

The Hospital Broadcasting award ceremony will be held in Glasgow at the Normandy Hotel on Saturday 27th March.

You can hear newcomer Nathan every Monday from 5pm on the Chart Show.

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Radio Fox’s achievements were recognised recently when our members were invited to a special reception with the Lord Mayor of Leicester.

The Lord Mayor showed our members round the council chamber at Leicester’s town hall and invited us to join him for drinks.

Prior to this there was a special presentation made by the Lord Mayor to Joe Shikeley and Richard Leatherland, who were jointly named Members Of The Year for 2009 in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the radio station.

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Above: Presenter Bob Machon, the first voice heard on Radio Fox.

Thanks for visiting the new look online home of Radio Fox!  We’re the broadcasting service for the patients and staff of the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield Hospital, and were also judged to be the UK’s hospital radio station of the year at the 2009 national Hospital Radio Awards.

On this site you’ll find the latest Fox news stories, information about our programmes and presenters, news about our fundraising activities and details of how you can get involved.  The site is currently being updated so further pictures and information is frequently being added – keep visiting to stay in touch with the Fox!

The presenter pictured here is Bob Machon, host of our Scratched Vinyl and Overnight shows and also the first voice ever heard on Radio Fox when we went on air back in April 1988.

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This year’s Radio Fox Christmas schedule promises a heady mix of old favourites, brand new shows and a fantastic selection of programmes for the big day itself.

The festive programmes kick off on Monday 21st December with the Radio Fox Christmas Request Chart.  Steve & Nathan will be unveiling the forty most requested songs for Christmas week – will your favourite be number one? That’s followed by our three hour Christmas Special, featuring giveaways, competitions, requests and the entire Radio Fox team.  Last year nearly thirty listeners won a prize on our Christmas Special and we want to beat that figure this year!

On Christmas Day Neil and Andy will be taking your instant requests live and Liz Wotherspoon presents a very special Patients Requests especially for listeners in the maternity wards.  You can also call in if you want to hear your favourite song festive or otherwise.

Other treats include the return of Christmas Turkeys, where we bring you some of the cheesiest festive hits and non hits of all time, a celebration of fifty years of Motown and plenty of other special shows.

“It’s never nice spending Christmas in hospital so we are going to pull out all the stops to entertain our listeners over the festive period,” says Station Director Steve Hack.  “We hope they’ll be plenty to enjoy with a good mix of Christmas shows and special editions of our regular programmes.”

For more details check out our Christmas schedule section further down this page.

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Radio Fox is still the most listened to station within the Leicester Royal Infirmary, according to the latest audience figures supplied by Hospedia.

 The statistics show that Fox currently has an audience share of 33%, 11% more than second most listened to station Radio One.  Our Friday line up of shows is currently proving most popular with listeners, with Jas’s Jammin’ show our most listened to show overall.  The Tuesday and Thursday Patients Requests shows are currently the most listened to request programmes.

Station Director Steve Hack is delighted with Fox’s continued success.  “It’s fantastic that so many people are enjoying our programmes but as always, it’s not about how many people are listening.  Even if just one person is enjoying our shows, that makes what we’re doing worthwhile.”

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Radio Fox is making a number of changes to its schedule this Autumn, with new shows and new faces to existing programmes.

Nishad Karim is to host a new two hour arts programme on Sunday lunchtimes whilst Tom Nicholls, who currently presents the Friday Patients Requests show and Flashback To The Nineties, takes over the Fox Alternative show on Wednesday evenings.  Jack Nixon will team up with Lisa Allden for the Monday Patients Requests programme whilst Michael Lord takes over the Thursday request slot.

Johnny Bance’s popular Lunchtime Love show moves to a slightly later time of 2pm on Sundays.

The schedule changes come into effect from September 1st.

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Radio Fox was once again at the Leicester Caribbean Carnival at the start of August, and despite the poor weather we managed to produce a great show for listeners in the two hospitals.

A three hour programme was recorded on the back of the Radio Fox float featuring commentary on the parade and interviews with those taking part or watching the event, with each part of the show being raced back to the studio so there was only an hours delay between recording and broadcast!

Radio Fox is hoping to broadcast reports from the Knighton Park Family Fun Day on 6th September where we will be providng the music and PA.  You can also see us at the Syston Carnival on September 5th.

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The latest patientline figures have revealed Radio Fox is the most listened to station in hospital.

Radio Fox achieved a 37% share of the audience at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield Hospitals for the week commencing Monday 11 May.

The nearest rivals to Radio Fox were BBC Radio Two with a 23% share of the audience.

The most listened to programmes were all request related programmes, with the Request Chart also making the top three.

Radio Fox spokesperson Kris Bramwell said: “This just highlights the importance of ward visiting to hospital radio. We are reaping the rewards of having regular interaction with our audience.”

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Radio Fox has just enjoyed the most successful night in its twenty one year history, having come away from this year’s National Hospital Radio Awards with the biggest prize of them all.

The station was given the Gold Award in the Station of the Year category, meaning that Radio Fox has been judged to be the UK’s best hospital radio station! The judges said that on the entry, our presenters sounded like they were enjoying themselves and were passionate about what they did, and that the presenters worked well as a team.

This is the second time Fox has won a Gold award, the first being in 2007 when Sandy Iliff won the Female Presenter Of The Year category. In this year’s awards, Fox also picked up highly commendeds in the Special Event (for our Caribbean Carnival coverage) and Station Promo categories, and commended in the Specialist Music show section (for Les Eastham’s Sixties Scene).

Station Director Steve Hack said of our success: “Wow! I think none of us could really believe we had been awarded Gold in Station of the Year – I’m still taking it in! This is a fantastic tribute to the hard work everyone at Radio Fox puts in to their programmes and it’s a brilliant way to start our 21st year on air.”

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