One for us followers of new analogue radio licences (there's more of us than you'd think). Canadian owned CanWest has won the new licence for the Solent region on the South coast, making them the first non-UK company to win a brand new licence (something that only became possible with the new media ownership rules that came into effect a couple of years back). CanWest's station will be called Original 106, though whether its "adult alternative radio" format, featuring a mix of album-led music targeted at 40 to 59 year-olds turns out to be all that original, remains to be seen (it might be I suppose).
Elsewhere in analogue radio licence awards, the Local Radio Company took the new Swindon licence with their news-based station NOW FM, while Palm FM was awarded a licence in Torbay where they will deliver a mix of classic and contemporary music, and local-interest speech radio, which sounds pretty much like the remit of every single local radio station fifteen years ago (which is possibly not bad thing).