![]() ![]() The IBA was not permitted to give the names of the bids, but they were known to be: The IBA announced the following Monday that four applications had been received for the Glasgow franchise, but a week later it said a further two applications had been held up in the post and would still be accepted, bringing the total to six. The closing date for applications to run the first five commercial radio stations in Britain was midnight on Friday 8 December 1973. The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) came into legal existence on 12 July 1972.Ĭontract specifications were made public in autumn 1972. Other individuals associated with the company were Sir William McEwan Younger, chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland Dr Dickson Mabon, Labour MP for Greenock and the singer Kenneth McKellar. The Radio Clyde bid was formerly announced on 30 March 1972 with a formidable list of sponsors:īy this time Esmond Wright had resigned from the board of Outrams to concentrate on the radio bid. Local Radio (Communications) Ltd, formed by Jimmy Logan, chairman of Logan Theatres Ltd, and Robert Robertson, chairman of Hutchison Engineering Group of Glasgow, and the Furness Withy Shipping Group.Radio Glasgow Ltd, whose directors were Derek Webster, editor of the Daily Record, and Glasgow lawyer R Morton Milholm. ![]() Radio Clyde, of which the directors were Professor Esmond Wright, the former Conservative MP for Pollok, and Mr G B Allan, both of whom were also directors of George Outram & Co, publishers of the Glasgow Herald and Evening Times.Owned and operated by Bauer, it forms part of the company's Hits Radio and Greatest Hits Radio Network of local stations.īy November 1971 three companies had already formed : Radio Clyde, formed in 1973, is a group of two Independent Local Radio stations serving Glasgow and West Central Scotland from studios in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.
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