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The first Galaxy station, Galaxy Radio was launched in 1990 in Bristol broadcasting from studios in Portland Square on the 97.2 FM frequency. The station became a key rival to the city's GWR FM station and was operated by the Chiltern Radio Group under the "Hot FM" brand.
From 2002 to 2006 he hosted regular shows across the Galaxy FM Network including network weekend breakfast and Sunday night show “Galaxy Anthems”. For several years he hosted the weekday drive time show on regional station Galaxy 105 across the Yorkshire region of England. During his tenure the programme was the biggest afternoon radio show ...
Karen Oxley became his co-presenter in January 2001 after a year as senior broadcast journalist with the station. [1] Galaxy was rebranded as Capital North East on 3 January 2011 as part of a merger of Global Radio's Galaxy and Hit Music networks to form the nine-station Capital radio network. [2] Furnell and Oxley were retained at the ...
Originally called Galaxy 105–106, presenter Steve Furnell launched the station on 1 June 1999—with "What You Need", by Powerhouse, being the first record played.. The station was based in Wallsend, North Tyneside at the Silverlink Business Park, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Newcastle City Centre.
Durrant joined Galaxy FM aged 16 in 1998 as one of the UK's youngest radio presenters, and took over Friday and Saturday nights on the new Capital FM national network in January 2011. He left Capital in September 2013 to launch his production company This Is Distorted and joined the new Kiss FM network, KissFresh, in March 2014.
He has also presented shows for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky1, Living, on London's Kiss 100 and has reportedly presented several guest shows on Galaxy FM. He has previously had radio shows on Radio Nova, Atlantic 252, Virgin Radio, Beat 106 and Xfm. Between November 2012 and October 2013 he was the Programme Director at Star Radio North East. [2]
Hirst moved from hosting the breakfast show on Viking FM in Hull to join the Galaxy team to present their new breakfast show, covering the whole of Yorkshire, bringing Oakes to join current presenter JoJo. [2] Galaxy was rebranded as Capital on 3 January 2011 as part of a merger of Global Radio's Galaxy and Hit Music networks to form the nine ...
In October 2005 Butters agreed a deal with Galaxy and returned to the airwaves at Galaxy Manchester, [3] winning a Silver Sony award for Best Breakfast Show and an Arqiva nomination for Best UK Presenter in 2006. In May 2007 he was voted North West England Presenter of the Year in the radio industry magazine X-Trax.