is a regional
Radio Station broadcasting to the
East Midlands . Based in
Nottingham city centre close to the
Radio Nottingham building, it is owned by
Chrysalis Group who acquired the station from
Capital Radio Group /
GCap Media on
5 May 2005 for a cash consideration of £29.5m.
It was launched as Radio 106, with the first programme presented by Dickie Dodd at 6:00 a.m.. A year later,
John Myers took control over the station and it was rebranded by then owners
Border Radio Holdings into
Century .
The station was relaunched as Heart 106 on
29 August 2005 . It is transmitted from the
Copt Oak transmitter close to the
M1 north of
Leicester in the
National Forest .
