MuxCo has signed up The Local Radio Company (TLRC), owners of Minster, Stray and Yorkshire Coast Radio to submit an application for the local DAB digital radio multiplex serving North Yorkshire.

The actual licence area includes the eastern part of North Yorkshire, the city of York, and northern districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

As we predicted in June, the application means this will be the first time a TLRC station will feature on DAB digital radio.

The county's BBC service - BBC Radio York - will be carried on the multiplex.

MuxCo North Yorkshire Ltd plans to bring just two new services - Easy Radio and Traffic Radio to the area, when the multiplex launches in June 2009. Yorkshire Coast Radio is planned to launch within two years of this date.

MuxCo North Yorkshire

• BBC Radio York : news, information and music

• Minster FM : current and classic hits for York

• Stray FM : current and classic hits for Harrogate

• Yorkshire Coast Radio : current and classic hits for Scarborough

• Fresh Radio : contemporary and classic hits

• Easy Radio : easy listening music including rock, blues and folk

• Traffic Radio : rolling traffic news service

MuxCo are proposing two transmitters across North Yorkshire and one further transmitter to be turned on within two years of the multiplex launch to serve Scarborough.