CN Group
| Holding, Limited company | |
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1815 |
| Headquarters | Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| 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.
The company can trace its origins to the founding of the Carlisle Patriot newspaper in 1815, which eventually became the Cumberland News. Historical copies of the Carlisle Patriot, dating back to 1817, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive.
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.
They also had a shareholding in Carlisle-based CFM Radio, holding a further stake in neighbouring Border Television.
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