Radio Fox continues to be the most popular radio station amongst listeners in the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield Hospital, according to the latest information supplied by Patientline.

The station had an average audience share of 37% during the survey period compared to 19% for the second most popular station, and also enjoyed its strongest Sunday since audience information was first collection in 1999.

Strong audience figures were also enjoyed for our coverage of the Leicester Caribbean Carnival and for commentary of Leicester City's opening game of the season. Audience share for coverage of the City game peaked at 45%, more than any other station available to listeners within the hospitals.

Station Director Steve Hack was delighted with the audience figures. "As always, even if we are just making one listener's time in hospital more bearable we are doing our job, but everyone at Radio Fox is delighted that so many people are tuning in to our programmes. What is particularly pleasing is that we are enjoying good audiences during the day when no request shows are broadcast."

Radio Fox has freshened up its schedule with a number of new shows and programme changes.

Long running specialist show Fox Country, which has held the Wednesday 7-8 slot for seven years, moves to 11pm on Sunday evenings. Taking its place is the Radio Fox Request Chart.

There's changes on our request shows too. Scott Mclaren, who is our longest serving weekday request show presenter, moves to the Monday Patients Requests show, swapping places with Shelley Carter. The Funday Show, which Shelley also presents, moves to a later time of 11am on Saturday mornings from September and will be heard exclusively on the kids wards.

Following its popularity during our recent FM broadcast Johnny Bance has brought back his Parkalife show, which celebrates the best in mod music and Northern soul. The programme can be heard every Wednesday at 6pm. On Tuesdays Steven Hardisty returns with Tuesday Tunes & Trivia in the same timeslot.

There's a big change in our daytime line up too, with Kris Bramwell hosting a brand new morning show from September. The programme will include an hour of Patients Favourites between 9 and 10am.

On August 2nd Radio Fox returned to the Leicester Caribbean Carnival for the first time in three years, and mounted our most ambitious outside broadcast yet!

The Radio Fox float was turned in to a mobile studio from which we recorded a four hour programme featuring commentary, interviews and features. Our Carnival team headed out with the radio mics to interview those taking part in the parade and get reaction from some of the thousands of people enjoying the event.

To make sure our listeners could sample the Carnival atmosphere as quickly as possible we had a team of runners on hand to ferry the recordings back to the studio ready to play on air the same afternoon.

Next year we are planning to increase our Carnival coverage even more but before then, we'll be recording material at the Knighton Park Family Fun Day where we'll also be providing the music and sound facilities.

Radio Fox is out and about this Summer taking part in local events and providing a PA service at fetes, carnivals and gala days.

On August 2nd we'll be taking part in the Caribbean Carnival - always a highlight of the Radio Fox year - and we'll also be broadcasting a live show back to listeners in the Royal and the Glenfield.

Later in the month we'll be at the Syston Carnival and in September it's the Knighton Park Family Fun Day, where we are hoping to provide live reports back to the studios.

The Radio Fox PA service is available to hire now for fetes, gala days and even events such as christenings, and all costs go towards keeping Radio Fox on the air. For more details contact our Finance Director Scott Mclaren on Leicester 258 5555 or email scott.mclaren@radiofox.co.uk.

Singer Tom Walton was Steve Hack's special guest on Soundcheck on Tuesday. Tom played two tracks live in the studio and talked about his music, his plans for the future and his influences.

If you want to check out Tom's music check out his website:- www.myspace.com/tomwaltonrocks. And have a look at www.myspace.com/wheelerstreet - one of Tom's musical picks for this year's festival circuit.