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In 1996, Southern Radio sold Mellow on to Radio First, who went on to sell the station to Tindle Radio Ltd on 1 September 1998; on 19 November, it became an FM station and adopted its present name. Despite this name change, the holding company of the radio station was still known as Mellow 1557
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382:References
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283:. In 1992
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114:1990-10-07
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