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On 6 September 2021, Fire Radio was renamed Hits Radio
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of the UK. Despite the notion of 'borrowing station names', Managing
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station could win the challenge – and even if not, they could go to Appeal and "almost certainly" win – the costs involved in challenging one of Europe's biggest radio brands would be too high for a small station on the
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challenged "The NRG" over the use of the name as the pronunciation was the same. In discussion with the station's solicitors (Stephens
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The station moved from the original studios in the
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