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Although I’m pretty sure in the majority of cases GWR basically networked as much as they were allowed to. They were local until 7pm and networked during the evening till morning. I don’t think any weekday daytime programmes were allowed to networked back then. If they were you might have had some of these quasi national stations a lot sooner.

They still did additional programming locally outside 7pm. Trent and Essex FM had local shows rather than Core Control and Late Night Love for a period with GCap introducing networking on those stations.

GWR gets a lot of unfair stick on forums for being too formatted and increasing networking but compared to today, they did a lot more on the local front with the Black Thunders and separate playlists which reflected local choice than networking everything.