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FM
In 1977, the idea of having an FM station
was considered by management. The
Engineering Department proposed the use of
the 50 watts transmitters at Mapo, which was
old equipment that took signals from Agodi
to Abafon in WNBS days. It was agreed that
pilot programmes would start the following
year and the project was included in the
1978 budget.
The Station was commissioned on July 1978
and started transmission as the first state
owned FM Station in Nigeria on 98.5 MHz and
the call sign -This is Radio O-Y-O 2 FM
Stereo 98.5 in Stereo....
It is a great salute to the fore-sightedness
of the BCOS Management of the time and that
of the government which accepted the advice
of setting up an FM Station at a time when
the concept was totally new in Nigeria.
The concept was by the need to satisfy the
entertainment yearnings of the youths who
were craving for foreign type of musical
entertainment.
The idea was also justified by the need to
relief the AM Station of the burden of
competing interest, as the station tendered
more towards conservative entertainment,
information and education which fulfilled
the yearnings of the tradition based
audience.
The third reason was commercial, it was
expected that the advertising agents would
gravitate more towards youth - oriented
programming which FM represented and offers.
The establishment of the first State owned
frequency modulations (FM) Station in
Nigeria by the BCOS heralded the era of FM
in virtually all the states in the country
today.
The television arm was established in 1982
i.e. the Television Service of Oyo State and
was merged with the Radio arm in 1984.
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