[gav]

Tipped off about this elsewhere - but intriguing to see a ‘Galaxy’ branded stream popping up on Global Player.

They hold various trademarks for Galaxy but clearly weren't using the brand for anything, so one possible explanation is that they've done this to combat anybody attempting to cancel the trademarks on the grounds of non-use.

[DeMarkay]

They hold various trademarks for Galaxy but clearly weren't using the brand for anything, so one possible explanation is that they've done this to combat anybody attempting to cancel the trademarks on the grounds of non-use.

We've created this 'live playlist' for listeners who miss the Galaxy radio station. It's simply for nostalgia purposes, as well as not letting anyone else use the name.

[Jon]

Presumably anyone will have to use the name Dove.

[DeMarkay]

Presumably anyone will have to use the name Dove.

Indeed! 

[Spencer]

Galaxy was a fantastic brand, and it’s a huge shame it didn’t survive. Rumour has it that Ashley Tabor had to choose whether to roll out the Galaxy or Capital brand across the country. I think it was the fact that Capital was the brand known to the London based agencies swung it.

[Radio_man]

We've created this 'live playlist' for listeners who miss the Galaxy radio station. It's simply for nostalgia purposes, as well as not letting anyone else use the name.

A tight live playlist of around 30 songs with a tenuous link to a previously much loved radio brand is hardly a substitute for putting effort into relaunching the real thing.

If Global don't want to put an effort into using the Galaxy brand properly, let someone else use it who does and sell off the trademarks they hold to it.

[London Lite]

We've created this 'live playlist' for listeners who miss the Galaxy radio station. It's simply for nostalgia purposes, as well as not letting anyone else use the name.

The anoraks at the 'other place' have been going into a meltdown speculating why Global have been using a legacy brand again for a playlist station.

[gav]

We've created this 'live playlist' for listeners who miss the Galaxy radio station. It's simply for nostalgia purposes, as well as not letting anyone else use the name.

If nostalgia is the reason, why not simply call it "Galaxy"? Adding "of Stars" to the name seems to be a deliberate way of ensuring nobody sees this as a proper ressurection of the brand, while still ticking the trademark use box.

[Radio_man]

The anoraks at the 'other place' have been going into a meltdown speculating why Global have been using a legacy brand again for a playlist station.

And what's the problem with that? Harmless speculation and nostalgia hurts no one.

There's clearly still a lot of affection for Galaxy, almost 13 years after it was subsumed into Capital. How many other defunct radio brands can boast that level of affection and nostalgia so long after they were last on air? This shows just what a success Chrysalis radio made out of the Galaxy brand in the late 90s and 2000s, and it's a huge shame that Chrysalis decided to exit the radio market in 2007 because they had missed out on the consolidation that was happening in the radio industry in the mid-2000s.

[Jon]

There's clearly still a lot of affection for Galaxy, almost 13 years after it was subsumed into Capital. How many other defunct radio brands can boast that level of affection and nostalgia so long after they were last on air?

Probably most of them.