Smooth Christmas was subsequently replaced on a trial basis by "Smooth 70s", playing tracks from the 1970s.
(meta data) TITLE:  GMG Radio trialling new all-70s station : Radio Today 30 captures 03 Jan 2012 - 05 Sep 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Collection: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20120116015357/http://radiotoday.co.uk:80/2011/12/gmg-radio-trialling-new-all-70s-station/ Radio Today with RCS # GMG Radio trialling new all-70s station RadioToday.co.uk can exclusively reveal that GMG Radio will introduce a new national 70s station on Digital One. The new service, to be called Smooth 70s, will start on December 27th on the channel currently used by Smooth Xmas. The station will begin life as a non-stop music service without adverts, features or programmes. Just station imaging will identify the station between songs. The move follows Absolute Radio's recent launch of Absolute 70s on November 29th, which currently brands itself as "The UK's Only 70s Radio Station", although only available on DAB in London. Smooth 70s first started life in the summer as a steam on we7.com, along with Smooth 60s and Smooth Soul. No related posts. Published on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 at 8:49 am Tags: absolute 70s, gmg radio, smooth 70s, smooth radio Category: Industry News, Radio This article was written by Roy Martin. Roy is the owner and founder of Radio Today. You can follow him on Twitter @roymartin or email roy.martin@radiotoday.co.uk. If you have any news or information which may be of interest to the radio industry, please contact us via news@radiotoday.co.uk No related posts. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it. Subscribe via RSS Feed Email eRADIO Breaking radio news Featured radio jobs 24 Hours in Radio Seven Days in Radio Radio Today offers ### Radio Services ### All Recent Stories Rosie and Jim team up at Viking FM More laughs for BBC Radio 2 schedule Jay Crawford leaves Real Radio Scotland World Service awards £200m TX contract Smooth 70s to air old American Top 40s Appy Christmas for Absolute Radio BTR do 65-hour show for 35th birthday Feature: Orion's Phil Riley on Free Radio UKRD is Three Star for third year in row BBC Audio Drama shortlist announced Premier Gospel Radio signs MOBO winner Follow @radiotoday ### On this day.. 2009: KCFM lets John Prescott be a DJ 2009: Rother and Coast win awards brmb, Mercia, Beacon, Wyvern to be Free Feature: Orion's Phil Riley on Free Radio Sam Walker leaves Key 103 for Real NW Jay Crawford leaves Real Radio Scotland Rosie and Jim team up at Viking FM Community Radio Digital Radio Featured Content Hospital Radio Industry News People News RAJAR News Sales & Marketing Station News Top Stories January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 5 live 6 music absolute radio bauer media bauer radio bbc radio 2 capital fm classic fm global radio gmg radio Jack fm juice fm orion media radio 1 radio 2 radio 4 radio academy radio city radio festival real radio rock radio smooth radio UTV Media utv radio
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History.
The concept of a decade-themed radio station was first introduced by Absolute Radio, and in June 2011 GMG Radio decided to launch several stations through the online music streaming service we7 which would play particular types of music associated with the output of its stations. Three stations were launched under the Smooth Radio brand; "Smooth 60s", "Smooth 70s" and "Smooth Soul". 
 On 1 November 2011, GMG Radio launched a dedicated station playing nothing but Christmas music, under the brand "Smooth Christmas". The station, on the Digital One multiplex, had no news or advertisements but did promote Smooth Radio and broadcast until 27 December 2011.