Nation Broadcasting
Nation Broadcasting Limited (formerly Town and Country Broadcasting Limited and UK Sports Radio Limited) is a media company registered in Wales. It currently owns and operates twelve radio stations in Wales, Scotland and England. It is owned by Jason Bryant (formerly of talkSPORT and Virgin Radio).
Stations in the group are:
- Bridge FM (Bridgend, purchased from Tindle Radio, 2006)
- Swansea Bay Radio (Swansea Bay area, 2006)
- Nation Radio (South Wales, formerly known as Xfm South Wales until purchased from GCap Media (now Global Radio), 30 May 2008)
- Radio Carmarthenshire (Carmarthenshire, 2004)
- Radio Ceredigion (Ceredigion, purchased from Tindle Newspapers in March 2010)
- Radio Pembrokeshire (Pembrokeshire, 2002)
- Scarlet FM (Llanelli, 2004)
- Thames Radio (2016)
- Nation Radio Scotland (West Central Scotland, 2018)
- Dragon Radio (2016)
- Your_Radio Your Radio (Dumbarton) (2018)
The group also owns stakes in a number of DAB Digital Radio multiplexes.
The group had also owned Radio Hampshire - broadcasting to Southampton and Winchester but this was closed and sold to Play Radio, and now operates under the name The Breeze.
In April 2018 the group acquired Sun FM, Sunderland from UKRD.
NME Radio
In July 2010 it was announced [1] the Town and Country Broadcasting was to take over the licence to run the NME's spin off radio station, NME Radio, after it was reduced to an online only service following DX Media pulling out.
The new NME Radio was launched on Wednesday 1 September 2010 - with familiar group presenters providing live programming for the national NME Radio service. The station also replaced the now defunct dabbl station on the Cardiff & Newport DAB Multiplex as well as launching a brand new iPhone app.