Pulse 2 was a local
radio station
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serving
Bradford,
Kirklees
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and
Calderdale
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areas from studios in
Bradford.
The station was folded into
Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire
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, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020.
Background
The station was previously known as
Pennine Radio,
Classic Gold
Classic Gold was a network of three "Gold" music formatted stations which broadcast on AM in Bradford, Hull and Sheffield. They were the sister stations of Pennine Radio, Viking Radio and Radio Hallam respectively and they were part of the Y ...
, Great Yorkshire Gold, Great Yorkshire Radio,
1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire
1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire was a temporary name used for the AM sister station of The Pulse of West Yorkshire.
History
The station began life as Pennine Radio which was part of the Yorkshire Radio Network, but when it split its AM and FM ...
, West Yorkshire's Big AM, Pennine's Big AM, West Yorkshire's Classic Gold and Pulse Classic Gold and under previous ownership was part of the
Yorkshire Radio Network.
When, in 1989, Pennine Radio was split into Pennine FM and Classic Gold, the AM service became part of a network, initially with sister stations in
Hull
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* Submarine hull
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