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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matt Hughes Global sports business correspondent

Former Tory minister Zac Goldsmith to launch new sports radio station

Zac Goldsmith after being defeated in the Richmond Park byelection in 2016
The radio station backed by Zac Goldsmith will launch in the run-up to this summer’s men’s football World Cup. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The former Conservative minister Zac Goldsmith is launching a new sports radio station, trkradio, in the run-up to the men’s football World Cup this summer.

The Track Radio Corporation is understood to have been granted a licence by Ofcom last week, with Goldsmith and his brother Ben, a financier and environmentalist, the major investors.

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