Smooth Lake District is an
Independent Local Radio
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station for the
Lakes
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, owned and operated by
Global
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and part of the
Smooth
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network.
Overview
Originally known as Lakeland Radio, the station broadcasts from transmitters at Kendal on 100.1 MHz, the western side of
Lake Windermere on 100.8 MHz and Keswick Forest on 101.4 MHz.
Originally licensed to serve the South Lakes, the station's coverage area extended northwards on 23 April 2013 when it began broadcasting to
Keswick and surrounding villages. Part of the service area overlaps with that of its
Lancaster-based sister station The Bay (now
Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria
Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria (formerly The Bay) was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to north Lancashire and south Cumbria from studios in Lancaster.
History The Bay
The st ...
).
On 20 November 2017, CN Group announced Lakeland Radio would be sold to
Global
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Entertainment
* ''Global'' (Paul van Dyk album), 2003
* ''Global'' (Bunji Garlin album), 2007
* ''Global'' (Humanoid album), 1989
* ''Global'' (Todd Rundgren album), 2015
* Bruno ...
along with sister station
The Bay - the sale was finalised by 1 December 2017. Global later announced Lakeland Radio would become part of the
Smooth
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Mathematics
* Smooth function, a function that is infinitely differentiable; used in calculus and topology
* Smooth manifold, a differentiable manifold for which all the transition maps are smooth functions
* Smooth algebrai ...
network.
The Lakeland Radio brand and programming was phased out during February 2018 and following a transition period, the station was relaunched as Smooth Lake District at 6am on Monday 5 March 2018.
In September 2019, the station closed its Kendal studios and co-located with sister station
Smooth North West
Smooth North West is a regional radio station owned by Communicorp UK and operated by Global as part of the Smooth network. The station broadcasts to the North West of England from studios at Spinningfields in Manchester.
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in Manchester.
Following OFCOM's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio, Smooth's local Drivetime and weekend shows were replaced by network programming from London. Local news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising were retained, alongside the station's Lake District breakfast show.
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Manchester studios from 6-10am on weekdays. All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including ''The Smooth Drive Home'' with
Angie Greaves
Angie Greaves (born in London) is a British radio presenter.
Radio career
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.
News
Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly local news bulletins from 6am-7pm on weekdays and from 6am-12pm at weekends.
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National news updates air hourly from Global's London headquarters at all other times.
See also
*Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria
Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria (formerly The Bay) was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to north Lancashire and south Cumbria from studios in Lancaster.
History The Bay
The st ...
References
External links
Smooth Lake District
Media UK
Kendal transmitter
Windermere transmitter
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Radio stations in Cumbria
Lake District
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Adult contemporary radio stations in the United Kingdom