Greatest Hits Radio Salford

Greatest Hits Radio Salford (formerly Del Radio) is an independent local radio station based in Salford near MediaCityUK.

Greatest Hits Radio Salford is the first oldies/classic hits radio station in the UK to broadcast on FM.

History
The Radio Authority was seeing that all the all-oldies radio stations in the UK broadcasted on MW, and needed 2 more all-oldies stations but this time broadcasting on FM, so they advertised 2 oldies FM licences for Salford and Poole, Del Sound and Audio plc won the Salford licence and began broadcasting as Del Radio on 102.4 FM on May 19th 1993.

In 1998, EMAP looked upon Del Radio as a takeover target and wanted to make it the FM counterpart to Magic 1152 in Manchester, EMAP acquired Del Radio and rebranded it as Magic 102.4 that same year.

In 2015 the Magic Radio Network was disestablished and Magic 102.4 was rebranded back to Del Radio, becoming part of the Bauer City 2 Network.

In 2018 Bauer City 2 rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio, causing all of the English stations in the network including Del Radio to rebrand to that name.