Pulse 2

The station was folded into Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020.

However Emap had just announced plans to rebrand the Leeds, Hull and Sheffield stations as Magic, with a format of easy listening pop music.

75 per cent of the programmes would be supplied by GWR, with local programming coming from Bradford.

[1] However on-air promotions for Magic had already started to appear so to avoid any potential confusion amongst listeners, a temporary station called 1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire was created to fill the gap until the networking of Classic Gold could begin.

A couple of years later, Classic Gold was dropped in favour of becoming part of the BIG AM network with sister stations in Stoke and Manchester.