Bauer to launch new station Greatest Hits Radio 60s on DAB

Ken Bruce announced on his show this morning that a brand-new sister station, Greatest Hits Radio 60s is set to launch.

The new station will be available across the UK on DAB and via the Rayo app from 12 noon next Monday, 16th September.

The first hour of the new station (12pm to 1pm) will simulcast with Greatest Hits Radio and joining Ken for the launch will be the voice of Greatest Hits Radio 60s – Joanna Lumley.

Joanna says: “I haven’t even said ‘Mind the Gap’ on the Tube so to be a station voice – it’s paradise. I love it!

“The awful thing is that, although in life you always feel you are sort of fairly up to date and wear disastrously mutton dressed as lamb clothes and things like this, you realise that the music that stays with you – and that you love – is the music that you have when you were growing up through your teens and early 20s. So, the Sixties is absolutely my period – they were fabulous songs.”

The schedule will include Richard Allinson hosting the Breakfast show from 6 – 10am Monday to Friday and Alex Lester on afternoons from 2 – 6pm. Andy Crane will host weekend mid-mornings, while Rossie will present an afternoon show on Saturday and Sunday.

There will also be special programming such as Ken Bruce sharing some of his Secret Sixties tracks and interviewing celebrity guests about their Sixties Golden Years, Paul Gambaccini curates a Sixties jukebox and Simon Mayo hosts documentaries including The Beatles Legacy: Red and Blue Parts I and II.

Andy Ashton, Greatest Hits Radio Content Director said: “When Ken first joined Greatest Hits Radio, we gave him his very own station – Secret Sixties. It was an exclusive online station for premium users, and the feedback from the audience was so enthusiastic that we knew we had to do more, and so now Greatest Hits Radio 60s is born.

“We’re thrilled that Joanna has come on board as the voice of the new station – she completely embodies the style, wit, and passion of the 60s as a decade.

“Greatest Hits Radio is all about the biggest songs of the 70s, 80s and 90s and so many of those songs and artists have their roots in that incredible Sixties sound that changed things forever, that we know Greatest Hits Radio 60s will be a brilliant addition to the family.”