Sunrise Radio Group Limited was a UK radio broadcaster (chairman
Avtar Lit), and ran Sunrise Radio. The company also used to own London Media Company Limited. In January 2014, Sunrise Radio Limited, owners of Sunrise Radio 1, Sunrise Radio 3, Time 107.5 and Tristar 96.6, fell into
administration
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, and were acquired for an estimated £2m on 4 February 2014.
Stations
The company owned and managed the following radio stations:
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Sunrise Radio
Sunrise Radio is a 24-hour Asian commercial radio station, focusing on entertainment, music and news from the Indian subcontinent. It broadcasts to the Greater London area on 963/972 AM, nationally on DAB through the Sound Digital multiplex, ...
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Asia Broadcasting Corporation (Sri Lanka) - Hiru fm, Sha fm, Sun fm, Gold fm, Sooriyan fm.
It also owned 33% of
Sunrise Radio Yorkshire.
Former stations
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Punjabi Radio
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Yarr Radio
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South London Radio 107.3
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Time 106.8
Time 106.8 was an Independent Local Radio station located in the south-east London and north-west Kent area of England, which broadcast to Greenwich and Bexleyheath in London and Dartford and Gravesend, Kent, Gravesend in Kent on 106.8 Frequency ...
These ceased broadcasting after they were sold on 22 February 2009, but the new buyer could not afford to run the stations.
The stations that were sold are:
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Time 106.6
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Time 107.5
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Kismat Radio
Kismat Radio was a radio station broadcasting from the Crystal Palace Transmitter in south-east London.
Background
Kismat Radio was part of the Sunrise Radio Group, aimed at an audience of British Asians and South Asian expats aged 30+. ...
Sunrise also formerly owned 65% of Radio Plymouth, but this was sold in March 2013.
107.3 Radio Exe was also owned by the group until 2011.
Controversies
The company came under investigation for allegedly delaying passing on £160,000 raised for the
Pakistan earthquake in 2005 and the
Indian Ocean tsunami
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the scient ...
in 2004.
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References
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External links
littcorp.com
- Official website of owner Litt Corporation.
Radio broadcasting companies of the United Kingdom
Former British radio networks