This week marks a new beginning for radio broadcasting in South Essex with the launch of Gateway 97.8.

Gateway promises to be one of the most well equipped community radio stations in the country, with five fully equipped radio studios, several remote studios and an outside broadcasting system, all fully ready to go live whenever needed.

After many months of work, and many times working through the night, we finally launched the local radio station for Basildon and East Thurrock on Saturday, September 25th 2010.

Mark heads the engineering team at Gateway 97.8, together with three other engineers, Ryan Stokes, Richard Yates and Robert Thompson.

Ever since Radio Basildon stopped broadcasting in the late 80s, the area has craved its radio station back. The station has been broadcasting in some form since 2006, where it started as an Internet only radio station with occasional broadcasts twice a year through restricted service licences for 28 days at a time.

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