regional station for the east midlands . for the station formed from leicester sound and radio trent s am transmitters between 1988 and 2007 see classic gold gem . gem 106 broadcast area east midlands slogan playing music you love frequency rds gem 106 106.0 mhz fm now nottingham nottingham block 12c 128kbit s dab now leicester leicester block 11b 128kbit s dab now derbyshire in derbyshire from 2008 first air date 23 september 1997 format hot ac audience share 21 % june 2016 2 owner bauer radio website www.gem106.co.uk gem 106 is an english regional radio station broadcasting to the east midlands owned and operated by bauer radio . the station is transmitted from the copt oak transmitter close to the m1 north of leicester in the national forest . contents 1 history 1.1 radio 106 1.2 century 106 1.3 heart 106 1.4 gem 106 2 audience 3 notable current presenters 3.1 past presenters 4 references 5 external links history edit radio 106 edit radio 106 launched at 6am on tuesday 23 september 1997 . billed as radio for grown ups the new regional station was led by ex radio trent managing director ron coles with former centre radio md ken warburton as programming controller . the first presenter on air was dickie dodd . radio 106 s launch schedule included a heavy emphasis on speech content including daily guests on mid morning shows and a nightly 3 hour phone in . specialist music output featured country soul and motown at weekends . the station s launch team included kevin fernihough mark keen willie morgan kenny hague jake yapp peter king and sarah graham . 1 against competition from established bbc local radio and gwr owned commercial stations radio 106 recorded positive listening figures for its first set of rajar audience figures but within seven months of launch the station s owners border radio holdings opted for a complete relaunch . century 106 edit in april 1998 john myers took control of the station which was rebranded as century 106 and relaunched with a new team of presenters including adrian allen and chris ashley . 2 former radio trent presenter david lloyd became the station s managing director and programme controller with ex trent colleagues including tony lyman gary burton and andy marriott joining the presenting line up . other additions to the team included steve jordan breakfast and bernie keith afternoons . in may 2000 century 106 along with the other century stations in the north east and north west were sold to capital radio . david lloyd left the station to join galaxy 105 in leeds while presenter adrian allen walked out mid show in protest . the sale to capital brought an increase in the station s sports coverage as emphasised in the slogan music fun and football . more new presenters joined century including ian skye jason king stuart ellis and paula white . 3 heart 106 edit when capital later merged with gwr the office of fair trading ordered century to be sold off . chrysalis bought century 106 for 29.5 m and planned to rebrand the station as heart 106 to go with 100.7 heart fm in the west midlands as the area matched that of the itv central region and would make it more attractive to advertisers . 4 5 6 heart 106 was launched on 29 august 2005 . a further more subtle rebrand was applied in september 2006 which saw the dropping of the frequencies from station names across the heart network . on 25 june 2007 chrysalis announced the sale of heart along with its sister stations the arrow lbc and galaxy for 170 million to global radio . 7 following global s takeover of gcap media the office of fair trading again ordered global to sell off heart and four other midlands stations brmb mercia fm wyvern fm and beacon radio . in may 2009 the stations were sold to orion media a company backed by lloyds development capital and phil riley . gem 106 edit on 9 november 2010 orion media announced that heart 106 would be relaunched and renamed as gem 106 on 1 january 2011 . 8 under the rebrand the station ended its franchise agreement with global radio which allowed it to use the heart identity and carry networked programming from london . 9 gem 106 was launched at midnight on saturday 1 january 2011 with a special programme presented by orion s director of programming and marketing david lloyd . the gem name stands for great east midlands the name created and used from 1988 onwards for gem am later classic gold gem an am medium wave solid gold secondary service of radio trent . the majority of the station s programming is locally produced and broadcast from nottingham . the station also carries the nationally syndicated vodafone freebees big top 40 on sunday afternoons . as of march 2016 gem refreshed their imaging and jingle package using a custom package from wise buddah . on 6 may 2016 the station s owners orion announced they had been bought by bauer for an undisclosed fee reportedly between 40 and 50 million . 10 11 on 15 august 2016 gem dropped its 6 month old jingle package and began using the generic package and announcer team from the bauer city 1 network as it began to integrate its operations to bauer radio s flagship network along with the free radio stations . 12 alongside this integration the station is slowly moving towards a hot ac format . this integration is still incomplete as it retains its own brand identity used since march 2016 along with the playing music you love motto . also at the moment the station retains its own presentation team . audience edit according to rajar figures up to june 2016 the station was listened to by 503 000 people out of a possible 2 384 000 listeners per week with each listener tuning in for an average of 7.1 hours over the course of 7 days . notable current presenters edit sam pinkham amy voce jo russell with mark sparky colerangle marvin humes the vodafone big top 40 kat shoob the vodafone big top 40 past presenters edit sam nixon & mark rhodes references edit mark keen information . retrieved 2010 05 17 . radio authority century 106 file . retrieved 2010 05 17 . history of radio in east midlands . archived from the original on 2009 10 26 . retrieved 2010 05 17 . ofcom file details of chrysalis pdf . retrieved 2010 05 17 . ofcom file details of chrysalis . retrieved 2010 05 17 . simon s midlands fm radio stations . retrieved 2010 05 18 . chrysalis sells three radio stations gem to replace heart east mids heart 106 to become a local gem nottingham evening post 9 november 2010 bauer buys radio group orion media the guardian 6 may 2016 orion media sold to bauer for 50m the telegraph 6 may 2016 1 radio today 17 august 2016 external links edit official website history of local radio in leicestershire coordinates 52 56 56 n 1 08 03 w 52.94881 n 1.13418 w 52.94881 ; 1.13418 v t e bauer media group publishing consumer titles australia apc australian geographic the australian women s weekly cleo cosmopolitan dolly empire fhm grazia harper s bazaar motor nw ok people the picture qantas the australian 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