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Nation Broadcasting
Nation Broadcasting is a British media company headquartered in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It currently owns and operates twelve Independent Local Radio stations across the United Kingdom.
Originally known as Town and Country Broadcasting, the Nation name came into being when the company took over XFM South Wales in May 2008 and rebranded the station as Nation Radio.
In June 2018, the company changed the name of Thames Radio to Nation Radio, with this service becoming their national service, with DJs such as Mike Read, Russ Williams and Neil Francis, broadcasting online and on DAB in 2021 from Nation Radio UK's studios in London.
In February 2019, Nation purchased several former Lincs FM Group and Celador Radio services from Bauer Radio, including The Breeze and Sam FM in the Solent region, and KCFM in East Yorkshire, as these stations overlap with pre-existing Bauer assets Wave 105 and Viking FM.
In September 2022 Nation Broadcasting's franchise agreement with Bauer Radio ended. This resulted in a series of changes being made to Nation-owned services in September and October 2022, dubbed 'The Big Switch', which included the removal of Hits Radio and Greatest Hits Radio content from Nation-owned stations in favour of material largely sourced from Nation Radio UK and Easy Radio.
Nation Broadcasting runs a suite of digital-first thematic music stations, available via DAB+ transmission in a select number of areas, and UK-wide online. As at October 2024, these include:
These stations mostly utilise small superlocal DAB multiplexes – as at 2024, in Salisbury, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, West Hull, Tynemouth/South Shields, Glasgow and Wrexham – to broadcast, though Nation 80s is the most widely distributed, also carried on several of the full-line local DAB multiplexes in Wales. Nation 90s is set to launch on DAB+ in North West Wales later in March 2025 and one of those in London.
Many of the stations were previously carried on small-scale DAB in Glasgow, but this ended with the closure of the Trial Glasgow multiplex in autumn 2021 (in preparation for the new permanent franchise, won by Nation but later sold to Like Media Group; the launch of Like's multiplex in August 2022 reinstated some Nation stations.) A number of Nation's digital stations were offered on DAB+ in the Channel Islands from August 2021 – the launch of the area's digital multiplex – until being removed in April 2023 following the sale of the multiplex to Tindle.
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Nation Broadcasting
Nation Broadcasting is a British media company headquartered in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It currently owns and operates twelve Independent Local Radio stations across the United Kingdom.
Originally known as Town and Country Broadcasting, the Nation name came into being when the company took over XFM South Wales in May 2008 and rebranded the station as Nation Radio.
In June 2018, the company changed the name of Thames Radio to Nation Radio, with this service becoming their national service, with DJs such as Mike Read, Russ Williams and Neil Francis, broadcasting online and on DAB in 2021 from Nation Radio UK's studios in London.
In February 2019, Nation purchased several former Lincs FM Group and Celador Radio services from Bauer Radio, including The Breeze and Sam FM in the Solent region, and KCFM in East Yorkshire, as these stations overlap with pre-existing Bauer assets Wave 105 and Viking FM.
In September 2022 Nation Broadcasting's franchise agreement with Bauer Radio ended. This resulted in a series of changes being made to Nation-owned services in September and October 2022, dubbed 'The Big Switch', which included the removal of Hits Radio and Greatest Hits Radio content from Nation-owned stations in favour of material largely sourced from Nation Radio UK and Easy Radio.
Nation Broadcasting runs a suite of digital-first thematic music stations, available via DAB+ transmission in a select number of areas, and UK-wide online. As at October 2024, these include:
These stations mostly utilise small superlocal DAB multiplexes – as at 2024, in Salisbury, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, West Hull, Tynemouth/South Shields, Glasgow and Wrexham – to broadcast, though Nation 80s is the most widely distributed, also carried on several of the full-line local DAB multiplexes in Wales. Nation 90s is set to launch on DAB+ in North West Wales later in March 2025 and one of those in London.
Many of the stations were previously carried on small-scale DAB in Glasgow, but this ended with the closure of the Trial Glasgow multiplex in autumn 2021 (in preparation for the new permanent franchise, won by Nation but later sold to Like Media Group; the launch of Like's multiplex in August 2022 reinstated some Nation stations.) A number of Nation's digital stations were offered on DAB+ in the Channel Islands from August 2021 – the launch of the area's digital multiplex – until being removed in April 2023 following the sale of the multiplex to Tindle.