The Southern Radio Group was a company which owned and operated radio stations on the south coast of England.

History

Southern Radio group was formed when Ocean Sound merged with Southern FM. Later, in 1992, the group acquired Invicta FM and its AM services Invicta SuperGold in Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, and Mellow 1557

Mellow 1557

Mellow 1557 was a former medium wave radio station based in Frinton on Sea in Essex, United Kingdom.-Ownership:The station launched on 7 October 1990 as an easy listening station for Tendering...

 in Essex.

In 1994, Capital Radio opted to purchase Southern Radio plc, which included Ocean Sound. This led to the station being a more music-led station, playing heavy rotation soft adult contemporary hits, with its news and information sequences reduced in length and finishing with the sentence "And that's the way it is at " like Capital FM. Whilst Power FM took on Capital FM's long-established, successful and highly-polished sound.

In 1997 the Capital Radio Group sought Radio Authority approval to reduce the amount of local programming on its AM stations, this would mean South Coast Radio opting-out of a main service based in London. There Capital Gold was launched in place of South Coast Radio

South Coast Radio

South Coast Radio was a commercial radio station which broadcast on Medium Wave on the South Coast of England between 1991 and 1998.-History:...

, with four hours programming locally produced, usually either at breakfast or drivetime.

External links

• History of Southern Radio Group

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