Some of our outside broadcast team together with Father Christmas at the Wyval Garden Centre Christmas Fun Day on Saturday 22nd December 2003

About Us

Established in 1972, CHR is a charitable organisation staffed entirely from volunteers. Our membership encompasses all ages and occupations. The one aim however, is to provide an entertaining and professional broadcasting service to our listeners.  

Chichester Hospital Radio is a truly local radio service. Situated on the St. Richard's campus, our presenters regularly interact with listeners before, during and after programmes. 

As a result, we are ever mindful of the listening needs of our audience. Of course we cannot please all of the people all of the time ­ but we do try our best. Recognizing that listener needs change when one is unwell or hospitalised, CHR focuses on the middle ground of easy listening music. This covers a wide variety of relaxing styles.

We are also fortunate to have on our team, several musical experts who present specialist programmes such as jazz, country; light orchestral and adult orientated rock. A good mix of speech driven material featuring classic comedy, local news, magazine features, documentaries, dramas, poetry and stories balances these shows.

There is also news from around the hospital featuring some of the many other voluntary organisations, additional health care information and non-denominational religious broadcasts too.

However our flagship programme is TLC - The Listener’s Choice ­ a nightly show of requests, dedications and features.

Each night presenters visit different wards meeting listeners and guests offering the opportunity to select that evening’s content.

With the arrival of our 24-hour computerised radio service on Channell 11 and 1431AM, Chichester Hospital Radio has consolidated its role within the hospital by proudly offering a truly community radio service for patents, staff and visitors.

St. Richard's Hospital is located in the historic city of Chichester, midway between Portsmouth and Brighton and nestling between the South Downs and the South Coast.  Our studios are based in a converted pram store nestling within the main grounds of the hospital next to the West Block, and it is from here that all live and recorded shows are broadcast to the wards. The building is compact to say the least, however we do manage to squeeze in two studios, an ever expanding record library and room for a few chairs!

As St. Richard's continues to grow and space becomes ever more scarce it is possible that we may have to find a new home; and while any new building will hopefully have a bit more space there will be a few of our longer serving volunteers who will probably get quite nostalgic about leaving our little pram store!