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The stations which initially formed the Greatest Hits Radio network are predominantly sister stations to the corresponding Hits Radio network stations. Many were originally set up as a 'Gold' counterpart (e.g. Radio City Gold in Liverpool) when stations were instructed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority to cease simulcasting their services on both AM and FM in the late 1980s.
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.
Hits Radio, a Contemporary hit radio network of 25 radio stations, available on local FM and DAB, with a national DAB station. Until April 2024, most stations operated as their heritage radio brands, such as Radio City or Free Radio , with a mix of local and networked programming, but from April 2024 only the Scottish stations such as Clyde 1 ...
In May 2013, CFM became the first radio station to broadcast from a nuclear reprocessing site at Sellafield, West Cumbria. CFM was one of two stations within the Hits Radio Network that did not broadcast on DAB (the other being Radio Borders based in Galashiels). This was due to the lack of local DAB multiplexes in Cumbria.
Greatest Hits Radio Norfolk & North Suffolk (Norwich) (formerly Radio Norwich 99.9) is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Bauer, broadcasting to Norwich and the surrounding area. The station was merged with North Norfolk Radio and The Beach and became Greatest Hits Radio Norfolk and North Suffolk.
Simon "Rossie" Ross (born 17 January 1967) is a British radio presenter. He has hosted the breakfast show on Greatest Hits Radio since its launch in 2019. [ 1 ] He previously presented the Radio City breakfast show until May 2014.
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.
After acquiring several businesses in early 2019, in May 2020, Bauer announced many of their radio stations would rebrand and join the Greatest Hits Radio network, including six stations in the East of England: [1] Essex - Greatest Hits Radio Essex; Ipswich & Suffolk; Norfolk & North Suffolk - The Beach, North Norfolk Radio and Radio Norwich 99.9