How we checked TMM 1
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 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
TMM 1 is one of two channels, TMM 1 and TMM 2, presented on a single-page site belonging to The Music Machine. The site gives each channel a "NOW PLAYING" and a "RECENTLY PLAYED" panel and nothing else, with no description of format, no schedule and no presenter pages. Its dominant element is an image the operator's own markup labels "The Music Machine closing announcement", filed as announcement-2026.png. The operator identifies itself in its terms as The Music Machine Ltd, trading as The Music Machine, and says it operates both a website and a mobile application.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Artists
None available, and the absence is the finding. Both channels' "RECENTLY PLAYED" lists are filled with the placeholder rows "Artist 1 / Track Title 1" through "Artist 5 / Track Title 5", and the row images are named placeholder.png, tmm1-placeholder.png and tmm2-placeholder.png. No real track has ever been rendered into these panels in the version served.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Contact route
A contact route exists but no person. The footer and the terms page both offer a single email address on the company's own domain, obfuscated through Cloudflare email protection, and the footer links an X account for the station. There is no contact page, no form, no phone, no WhatsApp, no request line and nobody named.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Era
Not published for either channel.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Music
Not published. The site says nothing at all about what TMM 1 plays, and gives no genre, decade or format label for either channel.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Language
English; the site, terms and channel labels are all in English.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Kind
Cannot be determined from the operator's own material, and the operator has published a closing announcement. There is no player, no stream URL and no listen link anywhere in the page, only a "Powered by Tune In" badge image, so there is no first-party stream to read. The check that would settle whether TMM 1 is still carrying audio: read the stored stream_url for this row and compare its icy-name and now-playing against the site, since the site itself exposes neither.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The one thing this row really carries is that the operator has posted a closing announcement for 2026 on its own homepage, and that both channels' track panels are still theme placeholders, so the site names TMM 1 as a channel without ever saying what it was.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Where
United Kingdom. The terms page gives the company as registered in England and Wales with registration number 07054846 at an address in Potters Bar, England. No frequency is claimed; this is an online service.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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On air
none. I looked at the homepage, the terms page and every link the homepage offers, and no presenter, host or staff member is named anywhere on the site.
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The Music Machine | 2026 |
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Programmes
none. The site has no schedule page, no show names and no times, and its only other page is the terms and conditions.
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The Music Machine | 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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| The content of announcement-2026.png, the image whose own alt text calls it "The Music Machine closing announcement" | The announcement is published only as a picture, and reading a closure date or reason out of an image is exactly the trap that puts invented facts in a catalogue; I report only the alt text, which is the operator's own words in text form.
source |
| The recently-played lists for TMM 1 and TMM 2 | Every row is placeholder text and a placeholder image, so publishing them would put fabricated artists and track titles into the catalogue.
source |
| Any suggestion that the "Powered by Tune In" badge indicates where the station streams from | It is an image badge in the footer, not a first-party statement about the channel's playout.
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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: TMM 1 — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.themusicmachine.co.uk/