Beat 106 closed on 1 January 2006, playing a countdown of the top 1000 tracks voted for by visitors to its website, entitled "The X-List".
The rebranding of Beat 106 to XFM was one of a number of measures announced by GCap to improve their corporate performance following the merger.
[1] On 28 August 2008, Jim Gellatly announced that his last show would be broadcast that day and he would be leaving the station together with a number of colleagues.
This lasted until September 2015, when Global announced that XFM (UK) would be rebranding as Radio X (United Kingdom).
Global decided to hand the Scottish FM licence back prior to Radio X's launch.