colchester and surrounding areas frequency 96.1 mhz rds heart first air date 17 october 1993 format hot ac audience share 12 % december 2009 1 owner heart network global radio website heart colchester heart colchester formerly sgr colchester was a radio station broadcasting to colchester and the surrounding areas . the station was launched in 1993 by the east anglian radio group which also operated the ipswich based sgr fm radio broadland in norwich and amber radio across suffolk and norfolk . history edit the station serving a population of around 150 000 broadcast programmes from its studios in the town during daytime 6am 6pm but shared output from its larger sister sgr station in ipswich at other times . the colchester station was an immediate success and quickly built an impressive audience locally soon establishing itself as market leader . staff in the early years included mike stewart group programme director danny cox station manager and presenters nick jackson and simon taylor . it became part of the gwr group when east anglian radio was taken over in 1996 . in january 2009 owners global radio re branded sgr colchester as heart colchester and the following year it was merged with heart essex resulting in the closure of the station s studio base in the town . see also edit heart ipswich global radio external links edit official website v t e global radio corporate directors lord allen chairman ashley tabor group ceo richard park executive director stephen miron ceo mark evans cfo owen mcgartol director radio stations the arrow capital capital xtra chill classic fm gold heart lbc lbc london news smooth radio x television channels capital tv heart tv related articles list of global group stations capital digital gcap media capital life capital disney core the storm thejazz century digital jazz fm planet rock real and smooth classic fm tv leicester square thisisglobal.com radio this article about a radio station in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title heart colchester & oldid 737837509 categories radio stations in essexcolchesterradio stations established in 1993defunct heart network stationsdefunct radio stations in the united kingdom1993 establishments in englandunited kingdom radio station stubshidden categories essex articles missing geocoordinate dataall articles needing coordinatesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 september 2016 at 09 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view