Gold Radio London - Your London Guide

ABOUT Gold Radio London
Gold is a network of oldies radio stations in the United Kingdom, which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold Network in August 2007. The station relaunched in March 2014 as a partly automated service, broadcasting in a smaller number of areas than previously, after many of the local AM/DAB Gold frequencies were turned over to Smooth Radio.

The Capital Gold network started in London in 1988 on Capital Radio’s AM frequency, as the Government urged radio stations to end simulcasting (broadcasting the same programmes simultaneously on AM and FM) and threatened to remove one of their frequencies if simulcasting continued. The Classic Gold network was similarly formed from the AM transmissions of the former GWR Group’s station licence areas. (Many of the FM pop stations to which the …Gold stations were sister operations are themselves now part of the Heart or Capital networks).

Broadcast area: London, Manchester, East Midlands, Northampton, Peterborough (AM)
UK (DAB+, Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media and online)
Slogan: The Greatest Hits of All Time.
Frequency: 945 & 999 AM & DAB (Nottingham/Derby)
First air date: 2 July 1988 (Capital Gold)
3 August 2007 (as Gold)
Format: Classic Hits
Owner: Global
Sister stations: Capital FM, Capital XTRA, Classic FM, Heart, Heart 70s, Heart 80s, Heart 90s, Heart Dance, Heart Extra, LBC, LBC News, Smooth Radio, Radio X