Radio TFM (Today's Favourite Music)

TFM Radio is a Thornaby-on-Tees based Independent Local Radio station. Launched in June 1975 as Radio Tees, with the callsign "You've got a friend on 257" it was the first independent local radio station serving the area of the Tees Valley with parts of North Yorkshire and County Durham. The station currently broadcasts on 96.6 FM, DAB and online with DAB services provided by Bauer Digital. The station is owned and operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations.

For a short time, the radio station was part of the Newcastle upon Tyne based Metro Radio group, before being taken over by EMAP. After the Metro Radio group was taken over, TFM, along with the other sister stations, was integrated into EMAP's Big City Network, and renamed 96.6 TFM to express the FM frequency which the station is broadcast on. EMAP, a publicly listed plc's media and magazine arms were bought by Bauer Media, a privately owned German based family business in 2008. In July 2007, TFM was rebranded TFM Radio and re adopted the slogan 'Today's Favourite Music' which had first been used in the late 1990s.