Nation Broadcasting

Nation Broadcasting is a British media company headquartered in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

Nation Broadcasting runs a suite of digital-first thematic music stations, available via DAB+ transmission in a select number of areas, and UK-wide online.

As at October 2024, these include: These stations mostly utilise small superlocal DAB multiplexes - as at 2024, in Salisbury, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, West Hull, Tynemouth/South Shields, Glasgow and Wrexham - to broadcast, though Nation 80s is the most widely distributed, also carried on several of the full-line local DAB multiplexes in Wales[20] and one of those in London.

[21] Many of the stations were previously carried on small-scale DAB in Glasgow, but this ended with the closure of the Trial Glasgow multiplex in autumn 2021 (in preparation for the new permanent franchise, won by Nation but later sold to Like Media Group; the launch of Like's multiplex in August 2022 reinstated some Nation stations.)

Following the purchase of Celador Radio by Bauer Radio in February 2019, the Southampton and Winchester licences, along with a Portsmouth licence subsequently added to the network, were sold to Nation due to overlapping with the existing regional Bauer station Wave 105.