How we checked 3FM
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 1 thing we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
3FM is one of only three home-grown FM stations on the Isle of Man, broadcasting island-wide from studios at Braddan just outside Douglas. It launched in 2004 as a commercial alternative to Manx Radio and built its audience on 1980s and 1990s pop alongside current hits, wrapped around Manx news, weather and traffic. Weekday mornings open with 3FM Breakfast, and the station runs a second stream, 3FM Relax, for gentler listening. It calls itself the island's feel good radio station and sells itself on more music with local island information.
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3FM official site | 2026 |
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Contact route
its About page is titled Contact Us and lists separate office, studio and news telephone lines, a combined text and WhatsApp number, a postal address, and a contact form whose subject list includes Song Request and Studio; Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts are linked from its own pages; this is the Isle of Man station on three.fm and no page of the Dutch namesake was opened
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3FM Isle of Man | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.three.fm/about/
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3FM Isle of Man | 2026 |
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Era
1980s and 1990s with current music
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3FM official site | 2026 |
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Music
Adult contemporary, mainly 1980s and 1990s pop with current hits, plus island news and information
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3FM official site | 2026 |
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Language
English
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3FM official site | 2026 |
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Kind
Studio recordings with live presented shows
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3FM official site | 2026 |
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Where
Braddan, near Douglas, Isle of Man, on FM between 104 and 106 MHz
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3FM official site | 2026 |
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Programmes
3FM Breakfast on weekday mornings; 3FM Relax runs as a second, gentler stream
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3FM official site | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| per-staff mailbox pages for named sales people and two news journalists, found in the site's own sitemap | those are individual staff routes, and the station's switchboard, studio line and text number sit on the same Contact page
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: 3FM (128Kbps MP3) — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.three.fm/