Greatest Hits Radio North West is a regional radio network serving North West England and North Wales, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network. Stations Under relaxed OFCOM requirements for local content on commercial radio, GHR North West is permitted to share all programmes between seven licences located in the ITV Granada broadcast region. Previously, these licences broadcast as separate stations: Piccadilly Radio began broadcasting to Greater Manchester on 2 April 1974. Radio City began broadcasting to Merseyside and parts of Cheshire and North Wales on 21 October 1974. Red Rose Radio began broadcasting to Central Lancashire on 5 October 1982. Radio Wave began broadcasting to Blackpool and The Fylde on 25 May 1992. Wish FM began broadcasting to the Wigan and St Helens areas on 1 April 1997. Wire FM began broadcasting to the Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn areas on 1 September 1998. Tower FM began broadcasting to the Bolton and Bury areas on 20 March 1999. The Revolution began broadcasting to the Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside areas on 30 August 1999. History Radio City initially ran a single service on AM and FM, but by 1989, it launched a separate daytime talk service on AM, City Talk. However, poor ratings saw the station revert to a classic hits format, Radio City Gold, two years later. By 1998, Radio City Gold fell into the ownership of Emap, who rebranded the station as Magic 1548, which would adopt an increasing amount of networked programming until its local breakfast show was axed in March 2013. Tower FM, Wish FM and Wire FM would become part of The Wireless Group, which was brought in 2005 by UTV Media, before being sold again to News Corp in 2016. These three stations co-located to studios in the Orrell area of Wigan in 2009, while maintaining separate identities and local programming. In 2008, the Magic stations in the North West were sold to Bauer, who would launch the Greatest Hits ('Bauer City 2') network under local branding in January 2015. The following December, Radio City 2 swapped frequencies with sister station Radio City Talk on 105.9 FM and reintroduced local programming at peak times. In January 2019, Greatest Hits Radio replaced the localised Bauer City 2 branding. The following month, the Wireless Group's network of local radio stations - including Tower, Wish and Wire - were sold to Bauer Radio, although this sale was