Former GCap directors Orchard and Pallot acquire Midlands radio stations

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Maisie McCabe

June 18, 2009

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Former GCap directors Orchard and Pallot acquire Midlands radio stations

LONDON - Steve Orchard, the former GCap group operations director, and former GCap group finance director Wendy Pallot have teamed up to acquire five Midlands radio stations from regional media outfit CN Group.

Quidem: new company has acquired five Midlands stations from CN Group

The stations broadcast as Touch FM and Rugby FM across Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Coventry, Rugby and Tamworth.

Orchard and Pallot have acquired the stations through a new company, Quidem, for which they are chief executive and chairman respectively, for an undisclosed price.

Orchard left GCap Media in January last year. He has 25 years' experience in commercial radio, having launched the national DAB station Planet Rock and being formerly programme director of Classic FM.

Robin Burgess, chief executive of CN Group, said the company believes Quidem is best suited to take Touch forward in the future.

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