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📻 Kearney FM — Middlesbrough Status: 🟡 Status Unconfirmed / Needs More Information Location: Middlesbrough, North East England Type: Online Community Radio Coverage: North East & North Yorkshire Format: Community • Local News • Music • Talk • Dance/EDM About Kearney FM Kearney FM is an online community radio station associated with Middlesbrough and the wider North East of England. The station has described itself as: “Your local online community radio station for the North East & North Yorkshire.” Kearney FM was founded by Aaron Kearney and was created in memory of his mother, Catherine Kearney. The station's aim was to provide a voice for local communities, combining music with local news, interviews, community information and entertainment. 🎵 What Did It Play? Radio directories have listed Kearney FM with a mixture of: 🎵 Pop / Top 40 💃 Dance / EDM 📰 Local News 🎙️ Talk 📍 Community Information 🎧 Specialist Shows Unlike a traditional FM station, Kearney FM was primarily an online radio service. Listings have associated its online coverage with places including Middlesbrough, Stockton, Darlington and Newcastle upon Tyne. 🟡 Is Kearney FM Still Broadcasting? This is where the history gets a little unclear. There have been reports/listings of the Kearney FM stream being unavailable, but that alone doesn't prove the station permanently closed. Other radio directories continued to list Kearney FM as an online station, and the Kearney FM website was still publishing North East news and community material during 2025. Because of that, we're currently marking Kearney FM as: 🟡 STATUS UNCONFIRMED Until we find reliable evidence of a permanent shutdown, we won't mark Kearney FM as a dead radio station. 🕰️ Can You Help Fill In The History? Did you listen to Kearney FM? Did you present or DJ on the station? Do you know whether the original live radio service is still operating? We're looking for: 📻 Old stream information 🎙️ Presenter and DJ names 📅 Show schedules 📸 Old screenshots and logos 🎵 Jingles and recordings 💻 Old website pages 📆 Launch/closure information If you know anything about Kearney FM, post it below. WGR Radio History Archive Preserving North East online radio history — including the stations whose stories are disappearing from the web. The Middlesbrough connection is well documented: Yell describes Kearney FM as a “community online radio station for the north east” and gives a Middlesbrough address. yell.com Radio UK also lists it as an online station associated with Stockton, Newcastle and Darlington.