 The then parent company Guardian Media Group owns the local newspaper "Manchester Evening News", a series of local newspapers, a citywide terrestrial and national satellite TV station Channel M and the two regional licences for North West - Real Radio (North West) and Smooth Radio.On 28 July 2011, GMG Radio announced that the Manchester-based service would be re-branded as 106.1 Real Radio XS, while the Glasgow-based 96.3 Rock Radio would be sold and was released that the new Real Radio XS service would "benefit from the brand and scale of sister station Real Radio".On 29 August 2011, it was announced that the new service would launch on 5 September 2011 and would be extended to be available over a much larger area, replacing Jazz FM (UK) in London, the North West and the West Midlands, as Jazz FM had been launched nationally via the Digital One DAB platform.