Bauer City 3 was a network of 12 popular mainstream music radio stations in

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and northern

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, owned and operated by

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Overview

From Monday 19 January 2015,

The Hits The Hits was a music video channel broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland, owned by Box Television. On 15 August 2008 it was rebranded as 4Music. Overview and availability The channel showcased a range of pop centred on chart hits and curr ...

on DAB was absorbed into the new Bauer City 3 network of stations. The new services were locally branded and identified, with the opportunity to split for individual local news, information, advertising and jingles, with The Hits content as a national programme feed. Programming was broadcast among all Bauer City 3 stations in Scotland and Northern England, originating from the studios of Key 103 in

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and Clyde 3 in

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. Some other output was broadcast from Bauer's London Studios at

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. From 1 September 2017, the local City 3 branding of the stations on DAB was withdrawn, in favour of reverting to using The Hits name in all areas."The Hits to replace Bauer's City 3 network", RadioToday, 2017-08-29
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Stations

*Clyde 3 (Glasgow and the West of Scotland) *Forth 3 (Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife) *Hallam 3 (South Yorkshire and the North Midlands) *Key 3 (Greater Manchester) *Metro 3 Radio (Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and County Durham) *MFR 3 (Scottish Highlands, Moray and Orkney) *Radio Aire 3 (Leeds and West Yorkshire) *Radio City 3 (Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales) *Rock FM 3 (Lancashire) *Tay 3 (Tayside) *

(UK-wide on Freeview and online) *TFM 3 (Teesside, County Durham and North Yorkshire) *Viking 3 (East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire)

References

External links

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Bauer Media
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