after DX Media, the company led by XFM founder Sammy Jacob, terminated its contract to produce the radio station for IPC.
The jukebox service is currently broadcast on Sky as well as online via nme.com but Martin Mumford, managing director of Town & Country Broadcasting, said the station should be available on regional DAB in Wales from September.
as a 24-hour music service and, after successful trials on regional DAB in London and Manchester, it began .
Mumford would not confirm that NME Radio will return to national DAB but said T&CB "will look at the value of different platforms going forward".
The national ad sales for the station will be handled by Town & Country Broadcasting's sales house First Radio Sales, which is jointly owned by UTV and The Local Radio Company.
Mumford said: "We will work closely with IPC to allow clients to book multimedia campaigns. IPC has its own clients and we expect to be able to bring advertisers to the stations as well."
Paul Cheal, publishing director of NME, said: "There has been a fantastic groundswell of support from listeners, the radio industry, record labels and artists to find a way to keep NME Radio on air.
"We're pleased to be working with an established broadcaster that has successfully developed Nation Radio into one of the UK's fastest-growing stations and we are both committed to making NME Radio an even better service."
The station will be broadcast from both IPC's studios in its building on London's South Bank and T&CB’s studios near Swansea.
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