[IainJohnston]

Not jingles directly, but there will be even less in future for UK collectors/fans to be interested in, as Germany’s Bauer
buys up BOTH the long-holding-out Lincs FM Group and also more recent Celador Radio Group..

Details over at sister website Radio Today.
https://radiotoday.co.uk/

UK “independent local radio” was never intended to become this level of deep “consolidation.”

[mbMember]

At least it will be cheap and easy to roll out that bland FM imaging to another XXXXX stations

[IanF]

Wireless Group stations now bought out…..

[scotronMember]

Bauer buys Wireless Group’s local radio stations

[scotronMember]

It will soon be just one big national radio service. Bring back local radio.

[IainJohnston]

Only just caught this story. Bad enough Celador and Lincs, but I didn’t see this one coming just a couple of days later.

To think that once upon a time a small Glasgow “community” station got in deep merde from Ofcom for its
owners selling it to someone else without Ofcom “approval”, yet a foreign magazine group can buy up FIFTY_EIGHT
“ILR” commercial stations in one week, and “that’s OK then” !!!

I suspect Original in Aberdeen might be in the next sweep of miscellaneous “filler” stations for Bauer, and UKRD targeted
as the next group for Global (which may prove “interesting” for a certain “gentleman” domiciled in the Channel Islands;^[ )

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