Gold Surrey

This service would be dominated by almost constant rebrands.

1984-1988
ILR (commercial radio) service which operated on AM & FM to the Reigate area of Surrey.





1988-1995


Radio Mercury & its neighbouring service 'County Sound Radio' merged. Mercury began broadcasting countywide on FM, whilst County Sound did likewise on AM.

1995-1996


County Sound was rebranded to 'Mercury Extra'. The 'Extra' was a mixed format of rolling news by day, and gold/easy listening music overnights.

1996-1998


With the loss of the Guildford licence to UKRD, the service continued broadcasting solely to Reigate.

1998-1999


The service dropped the rolling news part of the format, resulting in another name change.

1999-2002


A change of owner (DMG Radio) would see the service rebranded to match their Essex AM service.

2002-2007


Another change of ownership saw another rebranding.

2007-2011


The service ceased broadcasting to Surrey in January 2011.