Hits Radio (Teesside)

Hits Radio Teesside continues the station previously known as TFM. The regional service took the Hits Radio name in 2024, linking its Teesside audience with Bauer's wider contemporary music network.

Current popular songs and recognisable throwbacks make up the principal selection. Presented entertainment brings conversation and company between the records, while the music ranges across mainstream styles and different years. The result is a broader programme than a service devoted solely to one genre or decade.

Teesside's business and community concerns appear in the station's regional reporting. Its coverage has included the views of Tees Valley farmers, local hospitality businesses and a women's-safety organisation, alongside news from Stockton, Middlesbrough and Hartlepool. The shared music schedule features Gemma Atkinson and Mike Toolan in the afternoon and Fleur East, Will Best and James Barr at breakfast. Marvin Humes is another network voice, with Throwback programming offering focused selections of familiar chart records. This gives the edition a Tees Valley editorial setting around Hits Radio's wider current-pop entertainment format.

Regional news and information remained part of the offering when the name changed, alongside shared network shows. Teesside supplies the audience setting, with TFM providing the earlier local radio identity. Listeners hear a continuing mainstream music station whose newer hits are balanced by familiar recordings and the personalities of presented entertainment.