How To Listen

On FM Radio

You can find us broadcasting in the Erewash area on 96.8FM. Whether you’re at home, on the go or in your car, simply tune your radio to our frequency. If you have an RDS radio, provided you have good reception ‘EREWASH’ will appear on your radio display. A tuning guide can be viewed on our home page.

Our transmitter has been installed at a carefully selected location, in order to provide the best coverage possible across the borough.

We hope you’ll be able to pick up our signal loud and clear, however, due to the type of licence obtained, we have been limited to a specific transmission power level, and this means things might not quite work out. So, if you’re having problems tuning in to 96.8 FM, here’s a few simple things you can try with your radio!

Fully extend the telescopic aerial (where fitted), then move it around forwards and backwards, and side to side until you feel you’ve got the clearest signal possible.
Move your radio around the room – near a window, upstairs perhaps. Try and find the best place where we can be heard as clearly as possible.
Keep your radio away from things which might cause interference such as mobile phones, computers, microwave and other electrical appliances or motors/engines which might be running nearby.
If you’re suffering interference from another radio station nearby on the dial, adjust your manual tuner slightly, move your radio and aerial as above.
Change to mono settings if possible. You may detect a ‘hiss’ in the background of our transmissions. Although we’re broadcasting in FM Stereo, if your radio has a switch labeled ‘mono’, flick the switch to remove the ‘hiss’ in areas where our signal is weaker.
Try a different radio! Newer units may have a better aerial, or are better equipped to pick up radio transmissions through the advance of technology.
Listen on-line - a ‘simulcast’ (the same service) of our FM transmissions is available via the 'Listen Live' link on the top right of our homepage. The simulcast is available via PCs, laptops, MACs and most wi-fi internet radios. Wi-fi radios can be purchased for the approximate price of a DAB radio.

Still having trouble at home or in the workplace? Please let us know! Your contribution might give us important information that we might be able to use to discuss with engineers and the broadcast regulator. Send your e-mail with reception reports to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

On Your Computer

You can listen to us anytime on your computer by clicking the ‘Listen Live’ link on the top of every page on this website. This will launch our Erewash Sound Radio Player, providing playback controls and information on the songs currently playing. Options to listen in other players of your choice are also available from our Radio Player.

You can also listen without having to open your web browser by downloading and installing our new Erewash Sound Live Player.

The Live Player allows you to easily listen to Erewash Sound at any time without having to go to our website or use any other media players. It runs in the background, which means you can use it to listen to Erewash Sound while using other applications. For example, once it is running it will disapper to an icon on your taskbar, so you can continue to browse the internet or edit a word document without it getting in the way. It works just like any other media player, and also displays the current on air presenter or song.

Compatibility

The Live Player works on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7. Unfortunately there is no version available for Mac. A working internet connection is required for the live player to work. It does support the use of Proxy Servers.

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On Internet Radios

If you have an Internet Radio that uses Pure’s The Lounge, Reciva or Wi-Fi Radio Frontier’s database of internet radio stations, you can easily find Erewash Sound by navigating the radio station list on your internet radio. You can save time later by adding Erewash Sound to one of you’re radio’s presets, it’s just like listening to a normal FM radio.

If you have an internet radio that does not use these databases, you can find the address required to listen to Erewash Sound through the ‘other players’ page on our Radio Player.

On Your Mobile and iPod touch

If you have a mobile with a built in FM Radio, all you have to do is tune it into 96.8FM. Unfortunately due to the way FM Radios on mobile phones work, reception may not be as good as other radios.

If you have a Nokia mobile with the Nokia Internet Radio application, you can listen to us by navigating the station list on that application.

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, or any other compatible mobile phone, you can listen to us by going to our website and clicking the ‘Listen Live’ link, which will take you to our Mobile Radio Player. Alternatively you can go to it directly by pointing your mobile’s web browser to erewashsound.com/player.

Please note that when you listen to internet radio over a mobile phone network, you may well be charged by your network, unless your tariff gives you unlimited net for your monthly payment. Please check with your service provider, particularly to ensure that you are permitted to listen to live streams over the network as part of your package.

On Your Home Media Centre

Some media centre devices, including PlayStation 3s, allow you to browse the internet and listen to internet radio just as you can on your computer. To listen to Erewash Sound on a compatible Media Centre, all you have to do is navigate to our website and select the ‘Listen Live’ link on the top of every page on this website.

If you have a Windows Media Center system, and you have a compatible tuner installed, you can make use of the FM Radio functionality to listen to Erewash Sound.

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