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JAZZ DUMPED: A small sidenote in the dismantling of the Thatcher years: Jazz FM is to be rebranded as Smooth in the capital. The station was an early creation as part of the incremental services, designed to fill demand for something other than what the original ILR network was doing in each place; in order to curry favour with the Thatcher cabinet, the Radio Authority decided to ignore the many competing demands of Londoners and gave the franchise to a station playing music beloved of at least three high-ranking members of the government. It never worked, though, and the station is set to disappear without having turned a single profit in fifteen years.

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