Big City Network

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Big City Network is the name given to a network of Independent Local Radio stations across Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all owned by EMAP. Since EMAP's acquisition of Metropolitan Broadcasting in 1998 there has been gradual brand integration such as a standard logo and websites. Also some of the Big City Network stations have sister Magic Radio stations broadcast from the same locations.

All of the former Scottish Radio Holdings were added to the Big City Network on September 28th 2006, branded as Big City Network Scotland and NI although this is thought to be for ease of advertising and all stations still carry their original logos and programming. West Sound is the only AM station in the network.

Big City's biggest rival radio network is GCap Media's The One Network, with over thirty eight local contractors.

1 Current stations
2 External links

[edit] Current stations

[edit] England

Station name	Based in	Area covered	Sister station
Hallam FM	Sheffield	South Yorkshire	Magic AM
Key 103	Manchester	Greater Manchester/north Cheshire	Piccadilly Magic 1152
Metro Radio	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne and Wear/north County Durham	Magic 1152
Radio City 96.7	Liverpool	Merseyside, West Lancashire	Magic 1548
96.3 Radio Aire	Leeds	West Yorkshire	Magic 828
97.4 Rock FM	Preston	Lancashire	Magic 999
96.6 TFM	Thornaby-on-Tees	Tees Valley/North Yorkshire/south County Durham	Magic 1170
96.9 Viking FM	Kingston upon Hull	East Yorkshire/North Lincolnshire	Magic 1161
CFM	Carlisle	Cumbria and south east Dumfries and Galloway	N/A

[edit] Northern Ireland

Station name	Based in	Area covered	Sister station
Cool FM	Newtownards	Greater Belfast	Downtown Radio
Downtown Radio	Newtownards	Northern Ireland	Cool FM

[edit] Scotland

Station name	Based in	Area covered	Sister station(s)
102.5 Clyde 1	Clydebank	Greater Glasgow	Clyde 2
97.3 Forth One	Edinburgh	Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife	1548 Forth 2
97.4 MFR	Inverness	Moray, Orkney and the Highlands	Moray Firth Radio 1107AM
Moray Firth Radio 1107AM	Inverness	Moray, Orkney and the Highlands	97.4 MFR
Northsound 1	Aberdeen	Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire	Northsound 2
Radio Borders	Galashiels	Scottish Borders and North Northumberland	N/A
South West Sound FM	Dumfries	Dumfries and Galloway	96.7 West FM/West Sound
96.7 West FM	Ayr	Ayrshire	West Sound/South West Sound FM
West Sound	Ayr	Ayrshire	West FM/South West Sound FM
Tay FM	Dundee	Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross and Fife	Tay AM