Radio Scilly mastermind Keri Jones has confirmed the station will be up and running next year.
“Radio Scilly will be on forever next Summer,” he told ScillyNews from an industry convention in Dallas.
“I have sold my stake in Radio Pembrokeshire and I’m just waiting for my house to be sold so I can move over. I hope I will get it done by Christmas.”
Keri has spent over 20 years in BBC and commercial radio stations of all sizes. Under his five-year ownership, Radio Pembrokeshire won prestigious industry awards and broke records by consistently achieving the UK?s highest reach and audience share.
He sold his founding stake in the business in 2006 and will be combining consultancy services and speaking engagements with setting up Scilly’s community radio station and a broadcast skills training facility for the Islands’ residents.
Keri oversaw a number of pilot broadcasts from ‘Broadcasting Shed’ at Porthloo between 1999 and 2004.
The station was awarded an Ofcom community radio licence in September 2005.