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The Saga Radio Group was a British
radio network owned and operated by
Saga Services Ltd, and aimed at an audience aged 50 and over. The first Saga station was launched in the
West Midlands on 16 October 2001 and was subsequently followed by two others based in the
East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It comprises the eastern half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It consists of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Li ...
and
Glasgow. The network won a fourth licence for the
north east
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in 2006, but was sold in December of that year to
Guardian Media Group, which decided to re-launch Saga along with its
Smooth FM stations as
Smooth Radio Smooth Radio may refer to:
* Smooth Radio (2010), the original national network in the UK
* Smooth Radio (2014)
See also
* Smoothfm
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. All Saga stations were closed on Friday 23 March 2007, and Smooth Radio was launched the following Monday.
Stations in the Saga network;
*
Saga 105.7 FM – serving the
West Midlands
*
Saga 106.6 FM – serving the
East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It comprises the eastern half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It consists of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Li ...
*
Saga 105.2 FM
Saga 105.2 FM was an independent local radio station in Glasgow, Scotland, part of the Saga Radio Group. From December 2005 it was also broadcast in the East of Scotland on DAB, serving Edinburgh, Fife and the Lothians. It was the last radio ...
– serving
Glasgow
*
Saga DAB radio – a digital based radio station
Former British radio networks
2001 establishments in England