Xfm Unveils 10th Birthday Documentary Season

Xfm’s 10th birthday celebrations will see the station produce a season of documentaries about ten of the most influential and significant albums released in each of Xfm’s ten years of broadcasting.

The season will mark the first time Xfm has programmed and broadcast a collection of music documentaries on this scale. The shows are set to be aired every Sunday afternoon at 5pm from September 2.

Matt Everitt, Xfm’s music news producer, said: “In its 10 year history Xfm has championed and supported some of the world finest bands, and its great to go back and revisit not only ten of the albums that have shaped popular music, but also the incredible musicians who created them.”

Mike Walsh, Xfm’s head of music, added: “Xfm is proud to have been so integral to the careers of so many historic artists over the past 10 years. This series of docs charts the making of many of these historic records by featuring one of our favorite albums of each of our 10 years.

“Xfm has also always prided itself on innovative, in depth and passionate programming. These docs have been brilliantly made, single handedly, by our very own Matt Everitt and are a great to testament to how Xfm continues to compete with the BBC in the area of music specials.

“We are very grateful to all the artists, managers and label personnel that gave us their time and I’m sure they will all be more than happy with the fantastic job that Matt has done.”

The latest RAJAR figures, for January to June 2007, show that total Xfm (UK) had a weekly reach of around 1.2 million listeners, up just over 10.4% year on year (see Radio 2 Records Rise In Weekly Reach).

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