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The station operates from studios in Laser House, an office-building in Salford Quays. Also housed in this building are Real Radio's sister stations 100.4 Smooth Radio and 106.1 Real Radio XS. The programming team is led by Programme Director Dave Shearer.
As well as 13 hours of local output on weekdays, 12 hours on Saturdays & 10 hours on Sundays, the station produces and broadcasts networked programming for four other Real Radio stations in the North East of England, Yorkshire, Wales and Central Scotland.
The station was also simulcast on Channel M at various times of the day until its closure in 2012. Originally, the station was used as a soundtrack to its breakfast traffic cameras programme which provided live footage from Manchester's traffic cameras. However, when the traffic camera footage programme ended, the simulcast hours were expanded and the in-vision became a holding slide of the station logo with two lines of scrolling text containing news and sports headlines and the song that the station is currently playing.
On 15 October 2012, Real Radio announced the station would increase its amount of networked programming. Weekday daytime shows from 10am - 4pm, currently presented by Darren Parks and Debbie Mac, are now networked across all Real Radio stations from Monday 5 November 2012 with further networked shows introduced at the weekend.
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