The Madrid City Council does not renew the license of M21 Radio

“The commitment is that this radio station will be a training school, and that those who are going to dedicate themselves to the radio can train but not compete and make propaganda,” they say from the Consistory.

He Madrid City Council has communicated to the Secretary of State for Digital Agenda that they will not continue with emissions of M21 Radio on 88.6 FM. Both the spokesperson for the municipal government, Inmaculada Sanz, like the mayor himself, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, have shown their intention for M21 Radio to stop airing, although it would continue as radio training academy.

“The commitment is that this radio station will be a training school, and that those who are going to dedicate themselves to the radio can train but not compete and make propaganda,” they say from the Consistory.

Madrid Destino had already paralyzed the tender to obtain the technical equipment for the studio that M21 Radio intended to locate in the Torreón de Conde Duque last July.

Beyond being a “propaganda instrument of Manuela Carmena” as the first mayor defined it last February, M21 has maintained intense activity in the field of training. Since its launch, 160 students from the universities of the Community and 221 student-workers sent by the Employment Agency have passed through its facilities.

M21 is heir to the antigua Onda IMEFE, acronym for the Municipal Institute of Employment and Business Training, a municipal radio school aimed at training the unemployed that was promoted by the PP City Council under the mandate of José Mª Álvarez del Manzano. It was inaugurated in October 1998 and operated until 2005. In 2016, the municipal government of Ahora Madrid decided to relaunch the station and call it M21, a name that refers to the 21 districts of the city.