Blyton Group is an

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media and entertainment company. The company primarily operates in the

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industry under its subsidiary

Capital Radio Network Capital Radio Network is an Australian radio company, which owns stations in Canberra, Goulburn, Cooma, the Snowy Mountains, Gippsland and Perth. The company is a subsidiary of Blyton Group, with Kevin James Blyton as managing director for bo ...

and owns

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, service and

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businesses in

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History

The company was started by Kevin Blyton who first acquired a radio station 2XL (now

XLFM XLFM (formerly 2XL) is an Australian radio station serving the Cooma region owned by Capital Radio Network. It was opened in August 1937. The station was originally broadcasting from Cooma on 918 kHz AM under the callsign '2XL' before unde ...

) in the

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and has since grown the radio network and expanded into hospitality. With the exception of XLFM,

Snow FM 97.7 Snow FM (call sign: 2SKI) is a commercial radio station in New South Wales, covering the areas of Cooma, Jindabyne, Thredbo, Perisher and Charlotte Pass. The station broadcasts on multiple frequencies to reach the townships within the Sn ...

and 3GG, all radio stations are operated as a 50/50

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with

Grant Broadcasters Grant Broadcasters is an Australian regional radio network. Founded in 1942, by 2019 it owned 53 radio stations. In 2022 it sold 46 to Here, There & Everywhere retaining shareholdings in seven in Canberra, Geelong, Goulburn and Perth. History ...

. The current COO of Blyton Group is Josh Elliot. Former radio host with Capital Radio Network, Andrew Dunkerley, served as Operations Manager until his departure in July 2020. In 2020, Blyton Group announced a 10-year master-plan for continued development of its

Charlotte Pass Charlotte Pass (often erroneously referred to as Charlotte's Pass) is a snow resort and village in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The pass is in the Kosciuszko National Park where the Kosciuszko Road crosses Kangaroo Ridge ...

Snow Resort, beginning with an upgraded chair lift. In November 2021, Grant Broadcasters sold their wholly owned radio stations to ARN. Their share of Capital Radio Network stations and wholly owned Geelong stations K Rock and

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remained with the Grant Broadcasters' owners, the Cameron family.

Radio Network

Operating under the name

, the Blyton Group wholly owns three radio stations and has a joint venture with

for the remaining stations. The radio network operates in 5 locations across

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and

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. The Snowy Mountains radio station organised the automated music for the Blyton Group's Magic Mountain amusement park speakers.

Wholly owned stations

* Snowy Mountains, New South Wales **

* Gippsland, Victoria ** 3GG

Joint venture with Grant Broadcasters

* Australian Capital Territory ** 2CC **

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** MyDAB Canberra **

(relayed from Snowy Mountains on

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) **

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* New South Wales **Southern Tablelands ***

GNFM GNFM (formerly known as 2GN) is an Australian radio station serving the Goulburn region, which opened in January 1932 as 2GN on a frequency of 1390 kHz (1368 kHz between 1978 and 2022). Test broadcasting began on 9 December 1931. It is now co-owne ...

*** Eagle FM ***

** Snowy Mountains ***

* Perth, Western Australia ** 6iX ** X Digital **

** MyDAB Perth

Former stations

In the 1990s, Kevin Blyton held a 40% stake in Newcastle's

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. Outside of buying and selling stations in the same stations/territories as current stations, he has also held stations in

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and owned Q92fm in

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which he purchased in 1992.

Hospitality and services

Blyton Group operates two snow resorts in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains region. The two resorts are Charlotte Pass Snow Resort and Selwyn Snow Resort. The company also has multiple hotels as a part of their operations in the region: * Kosciuszko Chalet Hotel, Charlotte Pass * Lucy Lodge, Charlotte Pass * Stillwell Hotel, Charlotte Pass * Selwyn Accommodation Centre, Selwyn Snow Fields In the 2019-2020 Australian summer bushfires, the Selwyn Snow Resort burned down, the Blyton Group has committed to rebuilding. In addition to the resorts and hotels, the Blyton Group owns the Snowy Mountains Airport Corporation, which operates Cooma-Snowy Mountains Airport and as a part of their Charlotte Pass resort, operate an over-snow bus service linking the village to

Perisher Valley Perisher Valley, commonly called Perisher, is a valley formed below Mount Perisher, a mountain that is located in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Located in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council, the valley is the site of one ...

Entertainment

Group also operates the

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in the Snowy Mountains townships of

Jindabyne Jindabyne () is a town in south-east New South Wales, Australia that overlooks Lake Jindabyne near the Snowy Mountains, in Snowy Monaro Regional Council. It is a popular holiday destination year round, especially in winter. This is due to its p ...

and

Cooma Cooma is a town in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It is located south of the national capital, Canberra, via the Monaro Highway. It is also on the Snowy Mountains Highway, connecting Bega with the Riverina. At the , Cooma had a po ...

. In

Merimbula Merimbula is a town on the Merimbula Lake, located on the Far South Coast or Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, Australia. At the , the population was 3,544. The population within 10 km of the Merimbula Post office is over 18,000 people. ...

, the Blyton Group have the Magic Mountain

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References

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