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I also hadn’t realised that Sunshine was a Muff Murfin operation - interesting stuff.

Pardon the very late reply but yes, it has been under Murfin's ownership for most of its legitimate years.

He also owns a couple of community stations - the former Youthcomm Radio in Worcester, which is now the reborn Radio Wyvern (Bauer apparently gave them the blessing to use the Wyvern name)

It's an odd one because it's still licensed as a youth-focused station for 11-25 year olds. The output suggests anything but - and according to their Public File, their programme controller - who also presents Drive - is based in the USA.

www.radiowyvern.co.uk 

Murfin's other community licence is Big City Radio in Birmingham, which has had a very chequered history and a few run-ins with OFCOM over the years.

Its latest move, officially announced today, is rebranding and relaunching as BRMB next month, with the Big City service going online-only.

Not too sure whether Bauer will give their blessing this time.

radiotoday.co.uk 

Murfin also took over Buzz FM (one of the first 'incremental' commercial stations) after the infamous Chris Cary took the station off air in November 1993 - only to see Buzz lose its licence months later.