TLR Local Radio

Local Radio Company PLC (The)
25 October 2007

25 October 2007

                          THE LOCAL RADIO COMPANY PLC

  Spire Radio in Salisbury becomes England's most listened to commercial radio
                                    station


The Local Radio Company Plc ("TLRC") is pleased to announce that its Spire FM
radio station in Salisbury has the highest percentage of listeners within its
region for any commercial radio station in England. This was recorded in the
latest RAJAR Quarter 3 2007 results. According to the report, Spire FM, which is
owned by TLRC, is now listened to by 44% of the Greater Salisbury population
each week.

This percentage is significantly higher than that of most other local radio
stations in England.

In addition The Local Radio Company has several other radio stations which also
have very high levels of listening in their local markets. These include
Yorkshire Coast Radio (42%), Isle of Wight Radio (34%), Stray FM, Harrogate
(34%) and Mix 96, Aylesbury (31%)


Commenting on these figures, Richard Wheatly, Executive Chairman of TLRC, said:

"It is always great to have the number one radio station. These figures provide
proof that our focus on local news and local information delivered by local
personalities who are recognized and known within the communities where we
broadcast is making a significant contribution to our listener numbers.

"Our approach clearly beats repetitive music play lists, hours of rather bland
network programming and over-paid personalities.

"These are exciting figures and reflect the on-going progress made by the
group."

The Local Radio Company also announced earlier that, according to Q3 2007 RAJAR
figures published today, total listening hours in Q3 2007 were 7.5 million up by
0.7 million hours from 6.8 million a year ago.

TLRC now has 920,000 listeners per week up from 900,000 a year ago. Year on-year
the Group has increased its total listening hours by 10%.


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For further information, please contact:

Richard Wheatly/Alistair Mackenzie
The Local Radio Company                       Tel: 01494 688205

John Craven/Simon Robinson
Landsbanki Securities (UK) Limited            Tel: 020 7426 9000

Mark Way
Madano Partnership                            Tel: 07786 116001


                      This information is provided by RNS
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