Mid-Anglia Radio PLC, was a company that owned radio stations in the

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and

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regions of the UK. The stations they owned were: * Hereward Radio, in

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(and, briefly, in

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as well). * Worlds Greatest Music Station (or WGMS 1332) – in

. * CN-FM 103, in

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. * KL.FM 96.7, in

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History

In March/April 1994 Mid-Anglia Radio PLC was sold to Swindon based

GWR Group GCap Media was a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. The merger was completed in May 2005. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. O ...

, (now

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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.

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