The Local Radio Company

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The Local Radio Company

Type	Public
Founded	2004
Headquarters	High Wycombe,UK
Industry	Broadcasting
Products	Local Radio
Website	thelocalradiocompany.com

The Local Radio Company (TLRC) is a British media company based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, that owns over 30 small independent local radio stations in the UK. It was known as Radio Investments Limited until a takeover in 2004. Until recently, all stations owned by the group except Fire 107.6 broadcast under a contemporary music format known as Musicfunlife. However, since the departure of Group Programme Director Gordon Davidson (who has taken a position within the radio group Emap) in June 2006, most stations have developed their own branding. Network programmes broadcast by the group and taken by the majority of stations include the hit40uk chart show and The A List Chart show, Fire 107.6 takes urban chart show Fresh 40. Other network shows, such as the evening music and comedy show Simon James and Hill and late-night phone-in North-South Divided (which was broadcast jointly from studios in London and Durham to pitch listeners in the South of England against those in the North) have recently ended, to be replaced by more music-based shows that reflect the daytime sound of the TLRC stations. These shows were mostly broadcast from Mix 107 in High Wycombe, although they also sometimes came from the alternative network centres at Isle of Wight Radio, Durham FM or Dune FM. In 2005, TLRC made a large number of acquisitions including the successful Burnley station 2BR and Bath FM, from its eponymous town. New licenses Durham FM and Brunel FM went on air in 2005 and 2006 resepctively, with Northallerton's Minster FM to follow in 2007.