on DAB, TV platforms and online. The new station's format mixed modern and classic rock with speech content targeted at a young adult rock audience. In the FM era the station ran a somewhat more mainstream, adult-rock tone of daytime output than the magazine, featuring more indie and alternative rock than the magazine, which traditionally focused on heavier rock genres. The night shows were conversely very much fuelled by the traditional Kerrang! Magazine sound, with a wider and less mainstream style, playing a mix of punk and metal bands. In October 2007, as part of a major overhaul of Kerrang! Radio's program schedule and line-up of hosts, former Big Brother UK contestant Kate Lawler was taken on as co-presenter of the "Morning After" breakfast show, alongside Tim Shaw. Another new appointment at this time was Nick Margerrison, who became one of the regular presenters of the "Night Before" late night show. By 2009, the station had changed the style of music it played in order to appeal to a wider audience, and radio industry listening figures published in March of that year revealed that the station was broadcasting to 374,000 people across the West Midlands. Kerrang! Radio won a Gold Award in the Station of the Year category at the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards. Return to digital-only platforms On 23 May 2013, Bauer Media announced that the output of older-skewing DAB rock station Planet Rock (which they had acquired three months earlier) would become available on FM in the West Midlands, taking over Kerrang! Radio's 105.2 FM broadcast frequency. Kerrang! Radio transmitted its final FM broadcast just three weeks later, on 14 June, and the station's studios in Birmingham city centre were permanently closed. A reduced Kerrang! service would continue, with some of the same DJs, as a young-focused rock service through the local DAB platform, digital TV and online, but all programming on both stations would come from Bauer's London premises. The digital footprint of Kerrang! was largely unchanged, though this was not universal and omitted some areas of the UK. In August 2013, the closure of the regional MXR digital radio multiplex for the West Midlands saw Kerrang! among several stations rolled down to the Birmingham-area local multiplex, meaning that the station disappeared from DAB in some parts of the region. On 12 December 2014, carriage of Kerrang! Radio on DAB outside London ceased, with the station