Central Radio will be a commercial radio station in the United Kingdom. The station was awarded a licence to service the Preston, Leyland and Chorley conurbation, under the working name of Proud FM on December 7, 2006, and proposed to be on air 9 months after this date.

The station changed its name to Central Radio in order to better reflect the entirety of the broadcast area, locally known as Central Lancashire, rather than Preston (from whence 'Proud' was derived).

The station is promising to broadcast a wide variety of popular music, particularly songs that fall under the mainstream rock genres, from the 1960s to the present day. The station is being managed by Paul Jordan who presented the breakfast show on Rock FM in the 1990s, and is owned by UTV Radio who operate neighbouring stations Radio Wave 96.5 in Blackpool, Wish FM in Wigan & St Helens and Wire FM in Warrington, Widnes & Runcorn.

They are planning on broadcasting from Preston Guildhall on 106.5FM at 200 Watts Mixed Polarisation.

Central commenced test transmissions using 106.5 on Monday 1st September 2008 giving a launch date of Late September. The idea of using a separate frequency of 96.3 for Chorley/Leyland now seems to have been dropped despite the reception of 106.5 in Chorley currently being very patchy.

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