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Prime Minister opens new Global Radio HQ
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 15 December 2008
The Prime Minister, that’s Gordon Brown in case you’d forgotten, opened the new HQ of Global Radio last week.
The new HQ for Global is just the old HQ of GCap and, before that, Capital Radio, but the ribbon-cutting exercise was to celebrate the arrival of Global stations Heart and LBC to the Leicester Square base following Global’s takeover of their bigger rival earlier this year.
It does now mean that two of the biggest competitors in the London radio market – Capital Radio and Heart – are now under the same roof. Brown cut the ribbon at the newly named offices before guesting on LBC.
It’s mad to think that when the Capital Radio Group moved into the Leicester Square offices in 1997 it housed just two radio stations – Capital FM and Capital Gold. It now houses Capital FM, LBC, Heart, Choice, Classic FM, XFM and Gold plus the headquarters of the biggest commercial radio company in the country.
