Mid-Anglia Radio PLC, was a company that owned radio stations in the
Norfolk and
Cambridgeshire regions of the UK.
The stations they owned were:
*
Hereward Radio, in
Peterborough (and, briefly, in
Northampton
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as well).
*
Worlds Greatest Music Station
The Worlds Greatest Music Station (or WGMS) was the AM sister station to Hereward FM. Its time on-air was short lived and restricted to approximately two years when both local ILR stations were acquired by the GWR group in the 1990s.
History
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(or WGMS 1332) – in
Peterborough.
* CN-FM 103, in
Cambridge.
*
KL.FM 96.7, in
Kings Lynn,
Norfolk.
History
In March/April 1994 Mid-Anglia Radio PLC was sold to
Swindon
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based
GWR Group, (now
Global Radio
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) for £3.5M. It was said that Mid-Anglia Radio had made a loss of £12,186 for the year ending 30 September 1993.
After the GWR Group bought the Mid-Anglia Radio group of stations, a couple of stations were renamed. WGMS became
Classic Gold 1332, which is now part of the
Gold network, and CN-FM 103 became
Q103.
Notes
Former British radio networks
Radio broadcasting companies of the United Kingdom
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