According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 47,000 and a 26.1% market share as of September 2023 - the highest of any local radio station in the British Isles.[2]
In late 2020, Channel 103 became a part of Bauer's Hits Radio Network for commercial sales.[3] It remains owned by Tindle with no shared programming.
Channel 103's core audience is the 25-44 age group,[4] playing contemporary hits - predominantly from the early 1990s to the present day.
News bulletins are presented locally from 6:30am until 6pm, Monday to Friday.
The station's weekend news service broadcasts local content, presented either from Jersey or Guernsey from 8am until noon. Sky News provides the service outside these times.[5]
Transmission
Шаблон:MainFrom its launch in 1992 until 16 March 2021, Channel 103 broadcast from studios on Tunnell Street in St Helier.
In 2021, the station vacated its original building and moved to a new studio complex in Britannia Place, St Helier.[6] It continues to transmit on FM from the Arqiva mast at Frémont Point, on the north coast of the island.
Channel 103 began digital radio transmissions, alongside those of Island FM, on 1 August 2021 with the launch of the local Ofcom-licensed DAB multiplex for the Channel Islands. This service is radiated from transmitters at Les Platons (Jersey) and Les Touillets (Guernsey) at launch, with a transmitter on Alderney to be added later in the summer.