Advertising

What is Chiltern Voice?

  • We are a not-for-profit Community station, run as a CIC, holding the Ofcom licence for the Chilterns, broadcasting to Amersham & Chesham and the surrounding towns and villages
  • We broadcast on 107.4FM and on the Internet, smart speaker and via a dedicated app for both iPhone & Android
  • We broadcast 24 hours-a-day supported by local volunteers, with local information covering our area
  • Our programming is designed to appeal to a local audience with a great mix of music, speech and local content

Why Advertise on Chiltern Voice?

  • As a community radio station, we offer a “hyper-local” way to reach the local community; from sponsoring individual programmes to advertising your company or services (subject to both Ofcom and ASA rules on advertising)
  • Organisations use radio advertising for a number of reasons;
    • You can use this opportunity to boost your local community profile
    • To promote services that you offer
    • To inform people about where your business is located
    • To raise your profile so when people need the service you offer you are top-of-mind
  • Radio advertising is unique: unlike other forms of advertising which can be easily ignored, radio is generally on in the background, in the home, office or car, meaning that listeners hear your advert no-matter what!

Advertising Rates

Although advertising with us promotes your business, service or product, please don’t think of this just as advertising. You are also helping the community, and helping fund your local community radio station.

FM Full: approximately £24 per week

  • 1 x 30 second advert played 56 times per week
  • Your advert produced free of charge1 by our in-house team when you take an annual package
  • £105 per month, or £1200 per year if paid annually in advance

FM Standard: approximately £16 per week

  • 1 x 30 second advert played 28 times per week during prime-time advertising slots
    Your advert produced free of charge1 by our in-house team when you take an annual package
  • £70 per month, or £800 per year if paid annually in advance

FM Lite: approximately £9 per week

  • 1 x 30 second advert played 18 times per week during prime-time advertising slots
    Your advert produced free of charge1 by our in-house team when you take an annual package
  • £40 per month, or £450 per year if paid annually in advance

Single Programme Sponsorship: less than £6 per week based on a 2 hour show*

  • 1 x Sponsor credit plus tagline and 2 x short sponsor credits per hour during the programme
  • Minimum sponsorship term is one year
  • £27 per month, or £300 per year if paid annually in advance

Daily Programme Sponsorship, 5 weekday shows: less than £20 per week based on a 2 hour show*

  • 1 x Sponsor credit plus tagline and 2 x short sponsor credits per hour during the programme
  • Minimum sponsorship term is one year
  • £90 per month, or £1000 per year if paid annually in advance

All packages can be tailored to suit your needs and many other sponsorship opportunities are available, including the sponsorship of both Travel and Weather sponsorship

*3 and 4 hour programme sponsorships may also be available on request

Note 1. When you take an annual package paid in advance

Prime-time defined as 7am to 11pm

Talk to our team! Discounts are available for community, local/SME & not-for-profit organisations

All Annual sponsorships include your logo being displayed on the Chiltern Voice website

Chiltern Voice offers a low-cost single voice advert production service for just £40

FM Broadcast Range

FM Coverage

Low Cost Commercial Production Service

Annual advert payments include one low-cost production session by the Chiltern Voice team.

What is included in this?

  • We will arrange for one of our presenters or professional voice over artists to record a voiceover from a script that you supply. This should be based on a maximum of 28 seconds when read at a sensible pace. You can supply your own voiceover but this must be recorded to a reasonably high standard with minimum background noise and in a good acoustic environment.
  • We will edit the voiceover to fit the 30 second slot, and may have to remove certain words if the duration exceeds the length of the commercial.
  • We will then add some appropriate music and sound effects to make the commercial more interesting to the listener.
  • We will edit and mix the commercial to a suitable standard for broadcast, and place it in the broadcast schedule according to the tariff that you have agreed.

What is not included?

  • We are not able to enter into a process of approval by advertising clients which involves changing the voice-over, music or sound effects, or the editing and mixing of the commercial.
  • We are not able to allow clients to be involved in the scheduling of commercials in our programming, except where specific sponsorship arrangements have been agreed.

What do I do if I want to produce my own commercial?

Many others are available – just search “radio commercial production” on the Internet.

What’s the cost?

It’s just £40 to have your commercial made by our in-house production team. Feel free to enquire with the other production companies, costs start from around £150.

Annual sponsorship deals & sponsor tags include production, so there are no production costs.