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Smooth London is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Smooth Radio network. It broadcasts to the Greater London area from Croydon transmitting station on 102.2 MHz. It broadcasts a soft adult contemporary radio format from Global's studios in Leicester Square, London, and replaced 102.2 Smooth FM on 26 March 2007.
Smooth Radio is a network of local radio stations broadcasting on FM and DAB in the United Kingdom.It retains one outlet on AM.Smooth Radio previously featured a soft adult contemporary radio format but has introduced more upbeat music since 2023.
Only London, Nottingham, Derby and Manchester would continue to receive Gold on AM frequencies, and London & Home Counties, Yorkshire, Leicester and Nottingham areas on DAB. These remained with Gold as Smooth Radio is broadcast on FM in London, the North West and the East Midlands, and the Yorkshire DAB broadcast was a relay of the London service.
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102.2 Smooth FM was an Independent Local Radio station for Greater London.It replaced 102.2 Jazz FM on 7 June 2005 at 10 am, with the help of R&B singer Lemar and the then breakfast show host Jon Scragg.
The station opened in 1990 as 102.2 Jazz FM in London, and a second Jazz FM branded station was launched four years later in Manchester. The Manchester station became Smooth FM 100.4 in 2004, and was the first in the network of independent local radio stations to use the Smooth brand. The London station followed suit a year later.
As part of the changes, Smooth has committed to continue to play 45 hours of jazz content each week. [28] 27 May – 102.2 Jazz FM closes at midnight, ahead of its relaunch. The last song to be played on the station is "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" by Ella Fitzgerald. [29] [30] 7 June – London's 102.2 Jazz FM is relaunched as 102.2 Smooth FM.
London: United Kingdom: 31 March 1990 Smooth Chill: London: London (DAB) 21 February 2005 Classic FM: London: United Kingdom: 7 September 1992 Capital Brighton: Brighton: Brighton and Hove: 27 March 1998 Gold: London: East Midlands, London and Manchester (AM), London, Manchester and Yorkshire (DAB), United Kingdom (Digital TV) 28 November 1988 ...