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Amazing results for Tyneside radio company

A NORTH EAST radio station which champions upcoming musical talent has unveiled plans for expansion having secured £800,000 of new investment since the turn of the year.

Following rapid growth in 2010, the Amazing Media Group (AMG), based in Gateshead, is now launching several new services, opening a London office and will soon launch Amazing Radio Brazil.

The organisation, which currently employs 31 people, moved to Gateshead in December 2009, broadcasting Amazing Radio, the first national radio station ever based outside London.

The station now transmits nationally on DAB digital radio across the UK and online for the world and is said to be the world’s first radio station playing 100% new music from unsigned and emerging artists.

Paul Campbell, founder of AMG, said: “The business has gone mad since we moved to Gateshead. Audiences to the radio station are growing at a rate of knots, we’re hitting record numbers on amazingtunes.com both for downloads and new tunes being uploaded, and the viral activity on Twitter and Facebook shows people are really paying attention – and liking what they hear.

“This substantial growth and job creation would have been much more difficult without the funding and backing we received from One North East, which helped us purchase vital broadcasting equipment, computers and to make changes to our new building. It was perfectly-timed, and handled with consummate professionalism by the team at Stella House.”

Based in Amazing Towers, the former home of Century FM, AMG recently launched The Amazing Chart - the world’s first 100% unsigned chart, which music industry bible Music Week plans to publish online every week.

The company has said its next step is to launch Amazing Records later in the year and to sign selected new artists with “exceptional potential.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .