Blyton Group is an

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media and entertainment company. The company primarily operates in the

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industry under its subsidiary

Capital Radio Network Capital Radio Network is an Australian radio company, which owns stations in Canberra, Goulburn, Cooma, the Snowy Mountains, Gippsland and Perth. The company is a subsidiary of Blyton Group, with Kevin James Blyton as managing director for bo ...

and owns

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, service and

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businesses in

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History

The company was started by Kevin James Blyton who first acquired a radio station 2XL (now XLFM) in the

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and has since grown the radio network and expanded into hospitality. With the exception of XLFM,

Snow FM 97.7 Snow FM (call sign: 2SKI) is a commercial radio station in New South Wales, covering the areas of Cooma, Jindabyne, Thredbo, Perisher and Charlotte Pass. The station broadcasts on multiple frequencies to reach the townships within the Sn ...

and

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, all radio stations are operated as a 50/50

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with

Grant Broadcasters Grant Broadcasters is an Australian regional radio network. Founded in 1942, by 2019 it owned 53 radio stations. In 2022, it sold 46 to Here, There & Everywhere (company), Here, There & Everywhere, retaining shareholdings in seven in Canberra, G ...

. The group is led by a family-based leadership team, including Lachlan Blyton-Gray as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Lucy Blyton-Gray as the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). In 2020, Blyton Group announced a 10-year master-plan for continued development of its

Charlotte Pass Charlotte Pass (often erroneously referred to as Charlotte's Pass) is a snow resort and village in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The pass is in the Kosciuszko National Park where the Kosciuszko Road crosses Kangaroo Ridge. ...

Snow Resort, beginning with an upgraded chair lift. In November 2021, Grant Broadcasters sold their wholly owned radio stations to ARN. Their share of Capital Radio Network stations and wholly owned Geelong stations K Rock and Bay 93.9 remained with the Grant Broadcasters' owners, the Cameron family.

Radio Network

Operating under the name

, the Blyton Group wholly owns three radio stations and has a joint venture with

for the remaining stations. The radio network operates in 5 locations across

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and

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. The Snowy Mountains radio station organised the automated music for the Blyton Group's Magic Mountain amusement park speakers.

Wholly owned stations

* Snowy Mountains, New South Wales ** XLFM **

* Gippsland, Victoria **

Joint venture with Grant Broadcasters

* Australian Capital Territory ** 2CC **

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** MyDAB Canberra **

(relayed from Snowy Mountains on

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) **

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* New South Wales **Southern Tablelands ***

GNFM GNFM (formerly known as 2GN) is an Australian radio station serving the Goulburn region, which opened in January 1932 as 2GN on a frequency of 1390 kHz (1368 kHz between 1978 and 2022). Test broadcasting began on 7 December 1931. It is now co-own ...

*** Eagle FM ***

** Snowy Mountains ***

* Perth, Western Australia **

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** X Digital **

** MyDAB Perth

Former stations

In the 1990s, Kevin Blyton held a 40% stake in Newcastle's

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. Outside of buying and selling stations in the same stations/territories as current stations, he has also held stations in

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and owned Q92fm in

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which he purchased in 1992.

Hospitality and services

Blyton Group operates two snow resorts in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains region. The two resorts are Charlotte Pass Snow Resort and

Selwyn Snow Resort Selwyn Snow Resort, formerly known as Selwyn Snowfields, is a ski resort located in the most northern part of the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council and Kosciuszko National Park. Selwyn Snow ...

. The company also has multiple hotels as a part of their operations in the region: * Kosciuszko Chalet Hotel, Charlotte Pass * Lucy Lodge, Charlotte Pass * Stillwell Hotel, Charlotte Pass In the 2019-2020 Australian summer bushfires, the Selwyn Snow Resort burned down. In June 2023, Blyton Group reopened Selwyn Snow Resort to the public following a three year rebuild. NSW Premier, Hon. Christopher Minns, officially reopened the resort on Friday 21 July 2023. In addition to the resorts and hotels, the Blyton Group owns the Snowy Mountains Airport Corporation, which operates Cooma-Snowy Mountains Airport and as a part of their Charlotte Pass resort, operate an over-snow bus service linking the village to

Perisher Valley Perisher Valley, commonly called Perisher, is a valley formed below Mount Perisher, a mountain that is located in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Located in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council, the valley is the site of one ...

Entertainment

Group also operates the

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in the Snowy Mountains townships of

Jindabyne Jindabyne () is a town in south-east New South Wales, Australia that overlooks Lake Jindabyne near the Snowy Mountains, in Snowy Monaro Regional Council. It is a popular holiday destination year round, especially in winter. This is due to its p ...

. In

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, the Blyton Group own and operate the Magic Mountain

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References

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