Smooth Lake District is an

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station for the Lakes, owned and operated by

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and part of the

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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

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). On 20 November 2017, CN Group announced Lakeland Radio would be sold to

along with sister station The Bay - the sale was finalised by 1 December 2017. Global later announced Lakeland Radio would become part of the

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

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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

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News

Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly local news bulletins from 6am-7pm on weekdays and from 6am-12pm at weekends.Smooth Radio public file - Lake District
/ref> National news updates air hourly from Global's London headquarters at all other times.

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Smooth Lake District

Media UK

Kendal transmitter

Windermere transmitter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smooth Lake District Radio stations in Cumbria Lake District Adult contemporary radio stations in the United Kingdom

Overview

Programming

News

See also

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