Radio Mercury

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102.7 Mercury FM

Broadcast area	Reigate and Crawley
First air date	October 20, 1984
Frequency	102.7 MHz
Format	Contemporary
Owner	GCap Media
Website	www.mercuryfm.co.uk

Radio Mercury (later Mercury FM) is a radio station in the Surrey and Sussex area of the United Kingdom that was founded on the 20th October1984. It broadcasts on FM/VHF 102.7 (97.5FM/VHF around the Horsham area) The station has (over the years) included some of the top personalities in British radio. These include Pat Sharp, Ed Stewart, Russ Williams, Ian Davidson, Geoff Aspel and Jon Scragg.

In the 1990s the station merged with rivals County Sound Radio. Mercury then went from playing a broad mix of music to being mainly a Top 40 station, whilst County Sound concentrated more on oldies, news programing and specialist music shows. County Sound was later remanned "Extra AM" and then again was shortly renamed to "Mercury Extra AM" to make the connection between the two stations better known. Further name changes took place in the following years, until Classic Gold took over the AM frequencies (which were 1476 & 1521).

Current Presenters include Paul Bunker, Luke Smith, Sarah Booker, Steve Allen and Mike McClean.