Unlike the two existing commercial stations (both in London), Radio Clyde was an immediate success.
This was helped in part by strong financial backers that included Sean Connery and Jackie Stewart.
Clyde merged with Radio Forth to form SRH and immediately floated on the London Stock Exchange.
[3] The group's newspaper interests were sold off as were the firm's radio operations in the Republic of Ireland.
The group's FM stations in Scotland formed a local version of the Big City Network which Emap were already operating in England.