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Global Radio UK Limited
Company typePrivate
IndustryMedia
Founded2007
HeadquartersLeicester Square, London, England, UK[1]
Key people
Ashley Tabor CEO
Charles Allen Chairman
Richard Park Director of Broadcasting
WebsiteGlobal Radio

Global Radio is a British commercial radio company, the largest in the country following acquisitions of Chrysalis Radio in July 2007 and GCap Media in June 2008.

The company's Chief Executive Officer is Ashley Tabor, while the Group Chairman is Charles Allen. Richard Park is Group Executive Director and Director of Broadcasting, while Stephen Miron is Chief Executive of Radio. Mike Gordon is Group Commercial Director, Nicola Thomson is Group Director of Marketing and Don Thomson is Chief Operations Officer.

Global Radio officially took control of all GCap Media brands at 23:59 on 31 October 2008. The GCap Media name was axed at this time.

Stations owned by Global Radio

Classic FM

  • Classic FM - also nationally on Sky and Virgin Media.

Galaxy Network

Gold Network

Heart Network

It is expected that within the next 12-18 months the Heart brand will be expanded to the majority of the One Network heritage stations that were purchased as part of the takeover of GCap Media. It is anticipated the following stations will be rebranded:

On March 23rd:

Stations that have not been given date to re-brand are:

Hit Music Network

West Midlands Network (To Be Sold)

LBC Network

  • LBC 97.3 in London on FM and DAB. - also nationally on Sky and Virgin Media.
  • LBC News 1152 in London on AM and DAB.

XFM Network

Digital-only stations

  • Chill - also nationally on Sky and Virgin Media.
  • The Arrow - also nationally on Sky and Virgin Media.

Internet Television stations

Criticism of Global Radio

In February 2009 Global Radio and LBC were the subject of widespread criticism by technical and scientific bloggers following their threat of legal action against medical journalist Ben Goldacre for mounting part of an LBC 97.3 broadcast by Jeni Barnett on his website. [2] The move was widely interpreted as an attempt to suppress criticism and debate rather than enforcement of copyright.

See also

References

  1. ^ thisisglobal.com - Radio Global Radio
  2. ^ "Radio Station Uses Copyright Claim To Try To Silence Bad Science Critic; Guess What Happens?", TechDirt, 6 February, 2009
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