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Independent Local Radio Stations 1973 - 1990

Station

Coverage and Dates

Westwood One

Production House?

Radio Academy

Production House?

Suffolk Group Radio

Production House?

ORF - Osterreichischer Rundfunk

Austria

SFB - Sender Freies Berlin

West Germany - Berlin

Rundfunk DER DDR

East Germany?

Radio Aire 1981 -

Leeds

Beacon Radio 1976 -

Woolverhampton & Black Country 1976 - , Shrewsbury & Telford 1987 - .

Breeze AM 1989 -

AM split for Essex Radio 1989

BRMB Radio 1974 -

Birmingham

Radio Broadland 1984 -

Norwich & Great Yarmouth

Brunel Radio 1988 -

Bristol / Bath / Swindon

Capital Radio 1973 -

London

Capital Gold 1988 -

AM Split for Capital Radio

CBC [Cardiff Broadcasting Company] 1980 - 1989

Cardiff 1980

Newport 1983

Centre Radio 1981 - 1983

Leicester

Chiltern Radio 1981 -

Luton 1981 - , Bedford 1982 - .

Radio City 1975 -

Liverpool

Radio Clyde 1973 -

Glasgow

County Sound Radio 1983 -

Guilford

CN.FM 1989 -

Cambridge

Devonair Radio 1980 -

Exeter 1980 - , Torbay 1980 - .

Downtown Radio 1976 -

Greater Belfast 1976 - , Londonderry & Limavady 1986 - , Enniskillen & Omagh 1987 - .

Essex Radio 1981 -

Southend 1981 - , Chelmsford 1981 - .

Radio Forth 1975 -

Edinburgh

Fox FM 1989 -

Oxford 1989

Great North Radio 1989 -

AM split of Metro Radio

Gold AM 1988 -

AM Split of Ocean Sound 1988

GWR Radio 1985 -

Merger of Radio West and Wiltshire Sound

Gwent Broadcasting 1983 - 1986

Newport

Radio Hallam 1974 -

Sheffield & Rotherham 1974 - , Barnsley and Doncaster 1985 -

Hereward Radio 1980 -

Peterborough

Horizon Radio 1989 -

Milton Keynes 1989 -

Invicta Radio 1984 -

Maidstone & Medway?East Kent

Invicta Supergold 1989 -

AM split for Invicta

LBC [London Broadcasting Company] 1973 -

London

Leicester Sound 1984 -

Leicester

The Light FM 1987 – 1988

Winchester – Renamed Ocean FM in 1988

London Greek Radio (LGR) 1989 -

London

Marcher Sound 1983 -

Wrexham & Deeside

Marcher Gold 1989

AM split for Marcher Sound

Mercia Sound 1980 -

Coventry

Radio Mercury 1984 -

Reigate and Crawley

Metro Radio 1974 -

Tyne and Wear

MFM 1989 -

FM split for Marcher Sound

Moray Firth Radio 1982 -

Inverness

Network East Kent 1984 - 1984

Canterbury

Northants 96 1986 -

Northhampton

Northdown Radio 1984 -1984

Maidstone & Medway – Became Invicta

NorthSide Sound 1982 - 1984

Londonderry

NorthSound Radio 1981 -

Aberdeen

Ocean Sound 1986 -

Portsmouth/Southampton 1986 - , Winchester 1987 - .

Orchard FM 1989 -

Taunton

Radio Orwell 1975 -

Ipswich

Pennine Radio 1973 -

Bradford 1973 - , Huddersfield & Halifax 1984 - .

Piccadilly Radio 1974 -

Manchester

Piccadilly Key 103 FM 1988 -

FM Split for Piccadilly 1988

Piccadilly Gold 1152 1988 -

AM Split for Piccadilly 1988

Plymouth Sound 1985 -

Plymouth

Power FM 1988 -

Southampton FM Split of Ocean Sound 1988

Red Dragon Radio 1989 -

Takeover of CBC in 1989

Red Rose Radio 1982 -

Preston and Blackpool

Saxon Radio 1982 -

Bury St. Edmunds

Severn Sound 1980 -

Gloucester & Cheltenham

Signal Radio 1983 -

Stoke-on-Trent

Southern Sound Radio 1983 -

Brighton 1983, Eastbourne 1989

Sunrise Radio 1989 -

Bradford

Swansea Sound 1974 -

Swansea

Radio Tay 1980 -

Dundee 1980 - , Perth 1980 - .

Radio Tees 1975 -

Teeside

TFM 198?

FM split for Radio Tees

Radio Trent 1975 -

Nottingham 1975 - , Derby 1987 - .

Two Counties Radio [2CR] 1980 -

Bournemouth

Radio 210 1976 -

Reading 1976 - , Basingstoke & Andover 1987- .

Radio Victory 1975 - 1986

Portsmouth

Viking Radio 1984 -

Humberside

Radio WABC 1989 -

AM Split for Beacon Radio

Radio West 1981 - 1985

Bristol

West Sound 1981 -

Ayr

Wiltshire Radio 1982 - 198

Swindon/West Wiltshire

Radio Wyvern 1982 -

Herford/Worcester

XTRA AM 1989 -

AM Split for BRMB and Mercia

Source: Independent Broadcasting Authority. IBA Yearbooks. London : IBA 1980 - 1989.

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