Kevin Blyton, owner of the Capital Radio Network and the Blyton Group of companies, died on Sunday October 19 at the Cooma Hospital, after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Radio Info reports: Kevin purchased his first radio station, 2XL when he was just of 19 in 1978. The Capital Radio Network now includes XLFM and SNOW FM in the Snowy Mountains, 3GG in Gippsland, 2CA and 2CC in Canberra, GNFM and EAGLE FM in Goulburn, 6iX in Perth and associated digital stations including 60s Music and 70s Music. He was inducted into the Commercial Radio Hall of Fame in 2013.
He diversified into hospitality around his beloved 2XL by purchasing the Charlotte Pass and Selwyn Snow Resorts, the Snowy Mountains Airport in Cooma, Kosciusko Chalet Hotel as well as local transport services & cinemas. If you happened to be a resident of the NSW Snowy Mountains you were as likely to be served by him to get cinema tickets as meet with him in the board room. He was always hands on.
Kevin Blyton is survived by his daughter, Lucy Blyton-Gray.
Thanks to Jen Seyderhelm and Radioinfo.
We’ve lost Kevin… and before him… Bill Caralis….What now for independent radio which will now be run by accountants and non-creatives?? Pray for sanity🙏
So Kevin is gone… and with the loss of Bill Caralis …. what now of independent radio…. and its driving force…..is it now up to the accountants and non-creatives to move the Chess pieces around??? PRAY for sanity!🙏