Bauer Media

Bauer Radio is the UK division of Bauer Media Group from Germany. It is the UK’s second biggest commercial radio group, and is made up of the former Emap radio stations, but has bought a number of groups including Orion Media, Lincs FM, Celador, Wireless (local stations), UKRD and Absolute Radio to grow to its current size.

Updated list of radio stations owned by Bauer (updated 5/3/19)

  1. Absolute Radio 60s
  2. Absolute Radio
  3. Absolute Radio 00s
  4. Absolute Radio 70s
  5. Absolute Radio 80s
  6. Absolute Radio 90s
  7. Absolute Radio Classic Rock
  8. CFM (Cumbria)
  9. Clyde 1 (Glasgow)
  10. Clyde 2 (Glasgow)
  11. Compass FM (North East Lincolnshire)
  12. Cool FM (Belfast)
  13. Dearne FM (Barnsley, Penistone and the Dearne Valley)
  14. Downtown Country (Belfast)
  15. Downtown Radio (Belfast)
  16. Dream 100 FM (Colchester)
  17. Eagle Radio (Surrey)
  18. Fire Radio (Bournemouth and Poole)
  19. Forth 1 (Edinburgh)
  20. Forth 2 (Edinburgh)
  21. Free Radio (Birmingham)
  22. Free Radio (Coventry and Warwickshire)
  23. Free Radio (Herefordshire & Worcestershire)
  24. Free Radio (Wolverhampton)
  25. Gem (East Midlands)
  26. Greatest Hits Radio (Coventry & Warwickshire)
  27. Greatest Hits Radio (East Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire)
  28. Greatest Hits Radio (Herefordshire & Worcestershire)
  29. Greatest Hits Radio (Lancashire)
  30. Greatest Hits Radio (Liverpool, North West & North Wales)
  31. Greatest Hits Radio (Manchester)
  32. Greatest Hits Radio (Manchester)
  33. Greatest Hits Radio (North East)
  34. Greatest Hits Radio (South Yorkshire)
  35. Greatest Hits Radio (Teesside)
  36. Greatest Hits Radio (West Midlands)
  37. Greatest Hits Radio (West Yorkshire)
  38. Hallam FM (South Yorkshire)
  39. heat Radio
  40. Hits Radio
  41. Jazz FM
  42. Kerrang Radio
  43. Kiss (London)
  44. Kiss 101 (West)
  45. Kiss 105-108 (East)
  46. KissFresh
  47. Kisstory
  48. KLFM (Kings Lynn)
  49. Lincs FM (Lincolnshire & Newark)
  50. Magic (London and UK)
  51. Magic Chilled
  52. Magic Mellow
  53. Magic Soul
  54. Metro Radio (North East)
  55. MFR 
  56. Minster FM (York)
  57. Mix 96 (Aylesbury)
  58. North Norfolk Radio (Norfolk)
  59. Northsound 1 (Aberdeen)
  60. Northsound 2 (Aberdeen)
  61. Peak FM (Derbyshire)
  62. Pirate FM (Cornwall)
  63. Planet Rock
  64. Pulse 1 (West Yorkshire)
  65. Pulse 2 (West Yorkshire)
  66. Pulse 80s
  67. Radio Aire (Leeds)
  68. Radio Borders (Northumberland)
  69. Radio City (Liverpool)
  70. Radio City Talk (Liverpool)
  71. Radio Norwich 99.9 (Norwich)
  72. Radio Wave (Blackpool)
  73. Ridings FM (the Wakefield district)
  74. Rock FM (Lancashire)
  75. Rother FM (Rotherham)
  76. Rutland Radio (Stamford & Rutland)
  77. Sam FM (Bristol)
  78. Sam FM (Swindon)
  79. Sam FM (Thames Valley)
  80. Scala Radio
  81. Signal 1 (Stoke-on-Trent)
  82. Signal 107 (Wolverhampton)
  83. Signal 2 (Stoke-on-Trent)
  84. Signal 80s
  85. Spire FM (Salisbury)
  86. Spirit FM (Chicester)
  87. Stray FM (Harrogate)
  88. Suffolk First (Suffolk)
  89. Swansea Sound (Swansea)
  90. Tay FM (Dundee)
  91. The Beach (Norfolk)
  92. The Breeze (Andover)
  93. The Breeze (Basingstoke & North Hampshire)
  94. The Breeze (Bath)
  95. The Breeze (Bridgwater & West Somerset)
  96. The Breeze (Bristol)
  97. The Breeze (Cheltenham & North Gloucestershire)
  98. The Breeze (East Hampshire & South West Surrey)
  99. The Breeze (Frome & West Wiltshire)
  100. The Breeze (Newbury)
  101. The Breeze (North Dorset)
  102. The Breeze (North Somerset)
  103. The Breeze (Reading)
  104. The Breeze (South Devon)
  105. The Breeze (Yeovil & South Somerset)
  106. The Wave (Blackpool)
  107. Tower FM (Bolton)
  108. Town 102 (Ipswich – digital)
  109. Trax FM (Doncaster & Bassetlaw)
  110. Viking FM (Hull)
  111. Wave 105 (Solent)
  112. Wave 80s
  113. Wessex FM (Dorset)
  114. West FM (Ayr)
  115. Wire FM (Warrington)
  116. Wish FM (Wigan)
  117. Yorkshire Coast Radio (Scarborough)