History
- On 7 November 2002, the Radio Authority awarded a digital radio licence to MXR Limited for the Yorkshire region. The MXR beat another bid for the licence from The Yorkshire Digital Radio Company.
- Yorkshire Radio started test transmissions on MXR Yorkshire from 26 June 2006 and has replaced jazzfm.com.
- LBC replaced the Digital News Network from 28 July 2006 and LBC started broadcasting on 1 September 2006.
- Capital Disney ceased broadcasting on the multiplex on 29 June 2007, freeing up 128kbit/s of space on the multiplex, filled by UCB UK and UCB Inspirational (64kbit/s each).
- The Arrow stopped broadcasting via this platform as it switched platforms with XFM in 2009.
- Gold replaces LBC from 1 Nov 2012. Global Radio took the decision to remove LBC from the Yorkshire regional digital radio multiplex and replace it with Gold.
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