Galaxy Scotland
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4 Jan 2006 as XFM Scotland;
7th Nov 2008 as Galaxy Scotland
Galaxy Scotland is a regional radio station broadcasting to Scotland's Central Belt, an area surrounding the two cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The station launched as part of the Galaxy Network on Friday 7th November 2008.
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[edit] History
[edit] Beat 106
The station originally began on 19 November 1999 as Beat 106, a new rock and dance station. The first presenter on-air, at 1:06 p.m. on launch day, was Matt Finlay, who stayed at the station until late 2005. Other presenters at launch included George Bowie, Gina McKie, Graham Stewart and Jim Gellatly. Beat 106 closed on January 1, 2006, playing a countdown of the top 1000 tracks voted for by visitors to its website, entitled "The X-List".
Beat 106 was originally established by the Big Beat Group, headed up by a group of nightclub promoters from Glasgow. However, just a few months into its existence, in July 2000, it was bought by the Capital Radio Group who turned the focus more towards dance music (later changing it back to more of a rock/dance format). In 2005, Capital Radio merged with the GWR Group to form GCap Media, creating the UK's largest commercial radio group.
[edit] XFM Scotland
The rebranding of Beat 106 to XFM was one of a number of measures announced by GCap to improve their corporate performance following the merger. The original XFM station was Xfm London and the rebranding in Scotland occurred four months before the expected launch of Xfm Manchester.
Normal XFM Scotland programmes were launched by breakfast presenter Dominik Diamond on January 4, 2006.The first record to be played on XFM Scotland was 'Loaded' by Primal Scream. (The first record to be played on Beat 106 was "Revolution" by The Beatles.)
On 11 February 2008 GCap Media announced that they would be selling the analogue licence for the station[1]. GCap later became part of Global Radio and it was decided to keep the licence.
On 28 August 2008, Jim Gellatly announced that his last show would be broadcast that day and he would be leaving the station together with a number of colleagues.[2].
[edit] Galaxy Scotland
On 27 August 2008 new owners Global Radio announced it will re-brand XFM Scotland as Galaxy Scotland [3]. The re-brand is part of Global Radio’s major strategy to expand the brand across the UK.
Galaxy Scotland joined the Galaxy Network on the 7th of November 2008.
The XFM Scotland website advises XFM fans to switch to DAB, the Internet stream or satellite in order to continue listening, and to visit http://www.xfm.co.uk (XFM London and XFM Manchester's shared website) and not http://www.xfmscotland.co.uk from Monday 27th October. [4]
[edit] Galaxy Radio Stations
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