The Yorkshire Radio Network
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| Industry | Broadcasting |
| Headquarters | Sheffield, UK |
| Products | Local Radio |
The Yorkshire Radio Network was a group of three radio stations which shared programmes in the evening and at weekends. YRN was made-up of Pennine Radio in Bradford, Viking Radio in Hull and Radio Hallam in Sheffield.
YRN was based in Sheffield at Radio Hallam [1], although all of the live programmes came from Studio 2 at Viking Radio in Hull [2].
The company came about when Radio Hallam merged with Pennine Radio and later took over Viking Radio in 1987 [3].
In 1989 all of the three radio stations medium wave frequencies were used to form a new service called Classic Gold. YRN was bought by the Metro Radio group and as Pennine was making a loss they decided to rename it. The Pulse of West Yorkshire was born [4], the station was later sold off.
For a while YRN used the overnight sustaining service "The Superstation" .
There was live networked programming across the stations each evening broadcast from Viking Radio's studio's at Commercial Road in Hull. The programmes would mostly start after 8pm weekdays and slightly earlier over weekends.
Ad-breaks were not split so it was not unusual to hear promos for Viking whilst you were listening to either Hallam or Pennine. However, both "Benny Brown's American Countdown" and "Rick Dees Weekly Top-40" programmes where bought in and played-out locally by each station, so the commercials were also played separately by the tech-ops at each individual station.
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