{"id":3590,"date":"2024-03-01T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/were-off-in-our-transit-vans-after-the-show-how-fix-radio-built-a-hit-station-for-builders\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:02:11","slug":"were-off-in-our-transit-vans-after-the-show-how-fix-radio-built-a-hit-station-for-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/were-off-in-our-transit-vans-after-the-show-how-fix-radio-built-a-hit-station-for-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re off in our transit vans after the show\u2019: how Fix Radio built a hit station for builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Timpany was 22 and working on a building site when he had a brainwave \u2013 a radio station by, and for, tradespeople. Now with a huge listenership, Fix Radio is taking on the big beasts of the airwaves<\/p>\n<p>It is cold, dark and deathly quiet at an out-of-town business park in West Sussex. Hours before the car-parts business, the furniture workshop and the trampoline park open, the\u00a0only noise competing with the hum of the A27 spills out from unit 45.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are serving up the ultimate builders\u2019 breakfast!\u201d bellows a jingle playing out just after 7.30am. \u201cThe\u00a0Bald Builders Breakfast \u2026 Packed with the good stuff, plenty of sauce and\u00a0the two biggest clowns on\u00a0site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2024\/mar\/01\/fix-radio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Timpany was 22 and working on a building site when he had a brainwave \u2013 a radio station by, and for, tradespeople. Now with a huge listenership, Fix Radio is taking on the big beasts of the airwaves It is cold, dark and deathly quiet at an out-of-town business park in West Sussex. Hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}