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GMG Radio
IndustryMedia
Founded1999
DefunctMay 2014
HeadquartersSalford, Greater Manchester
Key people
John Myers (1999–2009),
Stuart Taylor
ProductsBroadcasting
ParentGuardian Media Group
Global Radio
Websiterealandsmooth.co.uk

GMG Radio was a company that owned the Real Radio and Smooth Radio networks. As GMG Radio, the company was the radio division of the Guardian Media Group until it was bought in 2012 by Global Radio, however pending regulatory review of the merger the company was renamed Real and Smooth Limited and operated as a separate entity, until May 2014.

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licence requirements, focused on jazz music at night. On 20 October 2006, GMG Radio announced that it was requesting a change of format for 102.2 Smooth FM...

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DAB Multiplex. The station came into existence following GMG Radio's purchase of the Saga Radio Group in December 2006, and the granting of permission from...

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sale. In June 2012, GMG sold its GMG Radio division, which operated Real Radio and Smooth Radio, to Global Radio. In January 2014, GMG disposed of its remaining...

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Heart South Wales

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forms part of the expanded Heart radio network of stations. On 3 October 2000 the Real Radio brand was launched after GMG Group won its first broadcast licence...

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Heart North East

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share a building with fellow GMG Radio stations, Smooth Radio and Rock Radio. The station was originally called Century Radio, before changing its name to...

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2021 in British radio

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with Bauer Media, Communicorp and GMG Radio, is appointed as Business Director of RadioWorks Group. 20 April – BBC Radio 1 announces major changes to its...

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Nation Radio Scotland

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station and entered talks with GMG Radio on buying out the station along with a group of private investors. Two months later, GMG announced the station would...

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Heart Yorkshire

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stations such as Capital and Heart) had bought GMG Radio. The former GMG stations, including Real Radio, continued to operate separately as 'Real and Smooth...

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Tony Cowell

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to the CBS Radio Network. In the United Kingdom, he has reported on The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent for Heart London and GMG Radio stations under...

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Guardian US

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