group . for the sports car classification see group cn . for the canadian corporate group see canadian national . for the alegra group see cn group . for the cyano group see cyanide . this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . december 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message cn group type holding limited company industry media founded 1815 headquarters carlisle cumbria key people lord inglewood chairman miller hogg ceo products broadcasting newspapers magazines website cngroup.co.uk the cn group limited is an independent local media business based in carlisle cumbria england which operates in three different media fields . the company was formerly known as the cumbrian newspapers group ltd but changed its name to reflect the fact that is no longer primarily a newspaper publisher . one of its principal subsidiaries however is still known as cumbrian newspapers ltd. contents 1 history 2 radio 3 publishing 3.1 list of cn group publications 3.1.1 newspapers 3.1.2 magazines 4 printing 5 references 6 external links history edit the company can trace its origins to the founding of the carlisle patriot newspaper in 1815 which eventually became the cumberland news . 1 historical copies of the carlisle patriot dating back to 1817 are available to search and view in digitised form at the british newspaper archive . 2 radio edit the cn group owns two radio stations lancaster based the bay and kendal based lakeland radio . the company formerly owned the touch radio network stations in the midlands outright until selling them to quidem in june 2009 . the two exceptions to this were the loughborough licence oak fm which was sold to the lincs fm group and the banbury touch fm licence which was sold to a private consortium and relaunched as banbury sound . it quickly became apparent that operating these licences outside of the regional network was not a commercially sensible move . as a result quidem acquired banbury sound in 2010 and oak fm in 2012 effectively reforming the original cn midlands network . cn previously owned mid fm in northern ireland . cn also previously owned belfast citybeat until january 2015 when it was sold to the q radio network . 3 4 they also had a shareholding in carlisle based cfm radio holding a further stake in neighbouring border television . publishing edit cn group publishes daily and weekly newspapers and magazines for cumbria northumberland dumfries and galloway and the scottish borders . list of cn group publications edit newspapers edit 24 the north s national a weekday evening paper launched 20th june 2016 . news and star daily evening paper circulated with separate east except friday and sunday and west except sunday editions . north west evening mail daily evening paper circulated in furness and other parts of south cumbria . the cumberland news weekly fridays covering east cumbria . separate main and late final editions cumbrian gazette weekly freesheet . separate editions for east and west cumbria whitehaven news weekly thursdays times & star weekly fridays separate workington maryport and cockermouth editions hexham courant weekly eskdale and liddesdale advertiser weekly thursdays advertiser weekly freesheet covering south cumbria magazines edit cumbria life monthly carlisle living monthly dumfries & galloway life monthly covering dumfries & galloway and scottish borders ; formerly dgb life in cumbria quarterly printing edit cn group prints items such as newspapers local & national and magazines . references edit http www.cngroup.co.uk about.php digitised copies of the carlisle patriot belfast radio station citybeat bought by q radio network bbc news bbc news 29 january 2015 citybeat belfast becomes q belfast s city beat radio today radiotoday 10 august 2015 external links edit how a whitehaven newspaper led the world s media for a day the independent 6 june 2010 v t e cn group radio the bay lakeland radio publishing newspapers news and star north west evening mail the cumberland news cumbrian gazette whitehaven news times & star hexham courant eskdale and liddesdale advertiser advertiser magazines cumbrian life carlisle living dumfries & galloway life yesterday cumbria and the lake district business gazette cn group retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cn group & oldid 733362962 categories media in cumbriamedia in scotlandradio broadcasting companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in carlisle cumbriahidden categories use dmy dates from august 2014use british english from august 2014articles lacking reliable references from december 2008all articles lacking reliable references 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 7 august 2016 at 08 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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