[Stooky Bill]

Re: CPV-TV... well David Frost was on the consortium for that project, 

Yes he was the P in CPV: Chrysalis Paradine Virgin. Paradine being his middle name which he gave to his production and management company 

He/TVam were part of a few failed bids around that time, the only one they won was INR2, as Virgin Radio, again of course partnering with Richard Branson. Before it got its own offices it was based at the TVam building and in it's dying days TVam gave away promotional Virgin 1215 branded radios 

When TVam was being wound up its stake in Virgin 1215 was sold, partly to Frost (who was a shareholder in TVam of course so presumably it was in exchange for that)

So of CPV had won an Itv licence, it would have had a knock on effect on British radio too, Virgin 1215 /Absolute would have been a totally different station. Chrysalis' TV interests became one of the biggest production companies and in 1994 got into radio when they launched Heart and later owned LBC, transforming that into nor eor less what it is today. Whether that would have happened had they been involved in Itv no-one knows, but both the big radio groups of today come from the parts of the CPV consortium