In July 2019, Helius Media Group purchased the FM licences from View TV Group and rebranded the County Durham frequencies as Durham Radio & Alpha Radio (now broadcasting as Sun FM as of March 2020).

[2] On 29 March 2017, UKRD announced that it would hand back the Star Radio licences to the regulator Ofcom and cease broadcasting two days after that.

It also asked Ofcom to transfer the Northallerton licence to sister station Minster FM.

[4] On 31 March 2017, UKRD's chief executive officer William Rogers confirmed a deal had been reached with View TV to secure the future of the station effective immediately.

In March 2018, Rathergood Radio was found in breach of its licence by Ofcom for failing to broadcast from two of its FM transmitters between 7 December 2017 and 8 February 2018.