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11-466: Mercury Radio may refer to: 102.7 Mercury FM , former radio station broadcasting to Surrey and Sussex, England Hertfordshire's Mercury 96.6 , former radio station broadcasting to southern Hertfordshire, England Mercury Radio Arts , a production company founded by American commentator Glenn Beck Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

22-587: The Heart network. It broadcast to Sussex and Surrey from studios in the Portslade area of Brighton. The station launched on Monday 26 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Sussex (formerly Southern FM) and Mercury FM . The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations - Southern Sound began broadcasting to Brighton and parts of West Sussex in August 1983 and Mercury FM broadcast to

33-704: The FM frequency changed to 102.7 as part of the UK-wide re-organisation of the VHF/FM band. 1985 saw a relay of the station added for the town of Horsham on 97.5. In 1991 the station took over most of County Sound Radio in Guildford to form the Allied Radio plc . Mercury then, having played a broad mix of music, became a mainly Top 40 hits station. County Sound's AM frequency was later renamed "Extra AM" and then again

44-731: The Reigate and Crawley areas from October 1984 onwards. In addition, Southern Sound ran a separate broadcasting service for East Sussex from February 1989 until the Radio Authority merged the two licences for East and West Sussex to form one station. Under the ownership of Global Radio, Southern FM was rebranded as Heart Sussex on 22 June 2009 while Mercury FM retained its local identity and became part of The Hit Music Network . By this time, both stations' local output had become restricted to breakfast and weekday drivetime programming only. On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge

55-519: The Surrey 96.4 FM transmitter, and County Sound returned to 1476 AM. The station was incorporated into GCap's "One Network" of stations, until the merger between GCap and Chrysalis Radio, forming Global Radio. As part of this merger, many of the former One Network stations were rebranded and reformatted under the "Heart" network which still stands today. As the merger took place and the One Network

66-473: The title Mercury Radio . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mercury_Radio&oldid=1111147915 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 102.7 Mercury FM Mercury FM

77-647: The two stations as part of plans to restructure the Heart Network . The new station began broadcasting from Brighton on Monday 26 July 2010, with a sales office and newsroom retained in Crawley. On 26 February 2019, Global announced Heart Sussex and Surrey would be merged with three sister stations in Hampshire and Dorset , Kent and the Thames Valley . From 3 June 2019, local output consisted of

88-766: Was an Independent Local Radio station in the Surrey and Sussex area of the United Kingdom that was founded on 20 October 1984 and closed on 25 July 2010. The station broadcast on FM 97.5 MHz in Horsham and 102.7 MHz in East Surrey and North Sussex and later merged with Heart Sussex to form Heart Sussex and Surrey . Radio Mercury was founded by John Aumonier and began airing on 20 October 1984, on 103.6 FM and 1521 AM focusing on Crawley but serving much of East Surrey and North Sussex. Two years later,

99-415: Was being disbanded, Mercury FM was incorporated into the now-defunct Hit Music Network along with a number of other stations, which retained their heritage brands due to a neighbouring Heart station overlapping into their broadcast area. The station was part of the network until its rebrand on 25 July 2010 as Heart. In July 2010, Mercury FM became part of the Heart Network . The final Mercury FM programme

110-494: Was broadcast on Sunday 25 July 2010, with the newly merged Heart Sussex and Surrey launching the next day. As of 2024, Radio Mercury remains a listed business with companies house at the address for Global studios in London. [REDACTED] Media related to Mercury FM at Wikimedia Commons Heart Sussex and Surrey Heart Sussex and Surrey was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of

121-594: Was shortly renamed "Mercury Extra AM" to make the connection between the two AM frequencies of both stations better known. It also became known as The Breeze , until the Classic Gold Network took over the AM licence of 1521 kHz . On 102.7 FM Mercury was renamed "Mercury FM" after the takeover of the group by GWR, later GCap Media. Before that Mercury lost the County Sound region again, and Eagle Radio took

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