3C was a

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radio station, based in

Clydebank Clydebank ( gd, Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Bowling and Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Mil ...

Dunbartonshire Dunbartonshire ( gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann) or the County of Dumbarton is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the west central Lowlands of Scotland lying to the north of the River Clyde. Dunbartonshire borders P ...

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and was provided by Radio Clyde, owned by

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, later bought by

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. It played country music. Its sister stations were ''

Clyde 1 Clyde 1 is an Independent Local Radio station based in Glasgow, Scotland, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Glasgow and West Central Scotland. As of September 2022, the station has a weekly audi ...

'' and ''

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''. On 26 March 2007, the station told listeners that it was closing at the next day, stating that :''"It is the result of a brand review undertaken by our parent company, which operates a large number of radio stations and other media interests."'' At 5pm on 27 March 2007, they played their final song (Tennessee by

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) and began re-broadcasting

on Freeview to see out the final year of the five-year contract.

Successors

Bauer Radio Bauer Media Audio UK is a UK-based radio division of the Bauer Media Group. History In early 2008, German magazine publisher Bauer bought the radio division of British company Emap, which had been established as East Midland Allied Press in ...

launched Downtown Country in April 2015 as a sister service to

Downtown Radio Downtown Radio is a Hot Adult Contemporary music radio station based in Newtownards, County Down, that serves all of Northern Ireland using a network of AM, FM and DAB transmitters. As of December 2022, the station has a weekly audience of 3 ...

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. The station is available on the Northern Ireland DAB multiplex. In 2019 Bauer launched a new contemporary country music station,

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, on DAB in various locations following a similar "contemporary country" format as 3C did. Other country stations have also been made available to digital listeners.

Chris Country CountryLine Radio is a UK-based radio station playing country music. Founded by Chris Stevens, it launched as Chris Country on 27 April 2013. The station is now owned by CountryLine, having purchased the station from Chris Stevens and Nation Bro ...

launched on

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in 2016 broadcasting to several regions including London and Manchester using newer

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technology.

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launched Smooth Country in 2019, initially as an online stream through Global Player before expanding to a broadcast DAB station that September.

External links

Radio Clyde official web site
3C 3C Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom Country radio stations in the United Kingdom Radio stations disestablished in 2007 {{Glasgow-stub

Successors

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