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Smooth Radio previously featured a soft adult contemporary radio format but has introduced more upbeat music since 2023. Launched in March 2014, it replaced the national Smooth Radio that had launched in 2010 on FM and DAB, and most outlets of Gold on AM.
A timeline of notable events relating to Smooth Radio, a British radio station that first launched in 2004. Note that this article also includes information about the national version of Smooth Radio that existed between 2010 and 2014.
- Early Years as Jazz FM
- Change of Identity and Expansion
- Further Expansion
- New Ownership
London station 102.2 Jazz FM was launched on 4 March 1990 with a concert performed by Ella Fitzgerald at the Royal Albert Hall. Jazz FM played mainly soul and jazz music and was broadcast to the London area. A sister station in Manchester called 100.4 Jazz FM was launched on 1 September 1994. The Jazz FM stations were purchased by the Guardian Medi...
In December 2006, GMG Radio acquired the Saga Radio Group, which owned stations in the West Midlands, East Midlands and Scotland, and a licence to begin broadcasting to the North East, and expanded the Smooth Network. Along with the Smooth FM stations in London and Manchester, all Saga stations were relaunched under the Smooth Radio brand on 26 Mar...
After John Myers' recommendations of a regulatory overhaul in commercial radio were published, and the Digital Economy Act 2010 allowing stations to co-locate or discontinue local shows and to broadcast on national DAB was passed, Smooth Radio merged its five English stations into one quasi-national station, and local news feeds were produced from ...
In June 2012 it was reported that Guardian Media Group was seeking to sell GMG Radio in order to restructure itself to stem losses being made by The Guardian and The Observer newspapers. Several offers were received for the subsidiary, valuing it at £50 million. GMG Radio was sold to Global Radio on 25 June, at an estimated price of between £50 mil...
The biggest icons 🌟 Smooth Radio plays the best music from the past six decades. Listen across the UK on 97-108 FM, digital, online, on Global Player and via your smart speakers at home.
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The biggest icons 🌟 Smooth Radio plays the best music from the past six decades. Listen across the UK on 97-108 FM, digital, online, on Global Player and via your smart speakers at home. You...
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Smooth Radio is a British network of local radio stations that broadcast across the country on FM , AM and DAB in the Soft Adult Contemporary format and are primarily owned by Global Media. In March 2014 the it was reorganized and replaced many outlets of Gold Radio on AM frequency.
