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The station began broadcasting at 5am on Tuesday 2 April 1974 as Piccadilly Radio on 261 m (1151 kHz then) AM/MW and on 97.0 MHz FM (from the same transmitter in Saddleworth that is now used by Hits Radio Manchester). The medium wave frequency moved to 1152 kHz on 23 November 1978 with the implementation of the Geneva 1975 plan.
The network launched on 5 January 2015 as the "Bauer City 2 Network", [1] and rebranded on 7 January 2019 due to the success of Radio City 2 in Liverpool on FM. [2]As of April 2023, the network consists of 18 local and regional radio stations operating over 50 FM and DAB licences in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as a national DAB station [2] in areas not served by a local Bauer-owned ...
On 1 September 2020, the station was merged with several local radio stations to form a new regional station, Greatest Hits Radio North West, as part of an expansion of the Bauer network. The national weekday breakfast show was broadcast from Bauer's Liverpool studios at St Johns Beacon until December 2024, when programming was moved to Bauer ...
The station is mainly networked from Greatest Hits Radio in London, although some programming comes from Liverpool and Manchester. Until November 2024, a regional afternoon show for Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire was broadcast from the Leeds studios by Steve Priestley. Stephanie Hirst regularly covered the show in Priestley's absence.
Greatest Hits Radio South Yorkshire is an Independent Local Radio station serving South Yorkshire and the North Midlands, which broadcasts as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network. As of March 2024, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 272,000 listeners, according to RAJAR .
Greatest Hits Radio saw its average weekly audience soar to 7.69 million in the first three months of 2024 – a leap of 50 per cent from its 5.12 million listeners a year earlier.
Radio ceased broadcasting on FM in the West Midlands and was replaced by a similar classic rock service, Planet Rock, following its sale to Bauer. In September 2015, the 105.2 FM frequency was taken over again by Absolute Radio. In January 2019, Bauer launched Greatest Hits Radio launched in the West Midlands, replacing Absolute Radio on 105.2 ...
Free 80s rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio West Midlands, replacing Absolute Radio on 105.2 FM. In Coventry and Warwickshire the station broadcast on 1359 kHz (although this later closed on 30 June 2020), and continues on DAB only in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, forming part of Greatest Hits Radio network.