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Virgin Radio is a brand owned by the Virgin Group. Virgin Radio International was established by the Virgin Group in 2001 to develop the Virgin Radio brand and it has since built one of the World’s most popular FM music radio franchises. Virgin Radio now broadcasts on FM in North America, Europe and Asia including the Middle East in multiple languages and music based formats and has 18 million listeners worldwide. Virgin Radio stations in each country are owned independently of the Virgin Group and of each other and generally carry independent programming tailored to local tastes.

Virgin Radio broadcast in the UK between 1993 and 2008 after which it made way for Absolute Radio. In January 2015, it was announced that Virgin Radio International and UTV Media were partnering to re-launch Virgin Radio in the UK should UTV Media be successful in securing a new digital terrestrial commercial radio licence for the UK for which it was bidding to Ofcom via its Sound Digital consortium.