How we checked Isle of Man Free Radio
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. We changed 1 thing about this entry. 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
Isle of Man Free Radio is a small internet-only station run out of Douglas, on air around the clock and carrying no advertising at all. The format is classic rock and pop with obscure recordings and newer classics folded in, and the presenters hand-pick what they play rather than working off a station playlist. Al's Greatest Hits runs on weekday mornings with well-known hits from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Ian B's Mega Pod takes Monday mornings, Wednesday Ladies Nite is given over almost entirely to female artists, and Sunday afternoons are listener requests. Other slots widen it out, The Manx Show for local and Manx-born talent, and Out and About, which is recorded at places around the island.
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
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Contact route
A song-request route wired straight into the home page: a "Request a Song" quick link and a "Got a Request? Let us Know!" block, both opening a mail composer to the station's own mailbox, and the About page states plainly that the station can be contacted at that address; the Shows page carries a "Sunday Requests" programme inviting listeners to "Email us with any requests or dedications you might have" and a "Wednesday Ladies Nite" whose text explicitly invites requests from listeners on behalf of others, and it names the station owner and each presenter. The brief is right that the Google Sites builder does not make the content any less the station's. No social accounts are linked from any of its four pages, which I opened in full.
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Isle of Man Free Radio (Google Sites) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://sites.google.com/view/isleofmanfreeradio/about
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Isle of Man Free Radio (Google Sites) | 2026 |
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Era
1970s to 1990s
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
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Music
Classic rock and pop, oldies and lesser-heard album tracks
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
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Language
English
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
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Kind
studio recordings, with occasional live broadcasts
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
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Where
Douglas, Isle of Man, internet only
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
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On air
Al presents Al's Greatest Hits on weekday mornings; Ian B presents Ian B's Mega Pod on Monday mornings
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
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Programmes
Al's Greatest Hits, Ian B's Mega Pod, Wednesday Ladies Nite, The Manx Show, Out and About
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Isle of Man Free Radio, Shows page | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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en
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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English-language internet station based in Douglas, Isle of Man |
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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| The station mailbox | publishable by type only. Noting that the site's copyright line still reads 2022, so the presentation is stale even though the request route is the only route and is offered in three separate places.
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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: Isle of Man Free Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://sites.google.com/view/isleofmanfreeradio/home