UPDATED WITH FUNERAL DETAILS: The Capital Radio Network and the Blyton family have provided details of Kevin Blyton’s funeral and asked this to be shared with colleagues and friends, present and past.Details:
Funeral Service – 11am on Thursday October 30, 2025 at St Columbkille Church, 24 Kosciuszko Rd, Jindabyne, NSW 2627.
Wake to immediately follow the funeral service at Jindabyne Bowling and Sports Club, 2 Bay St, Jindabyne.
There is a live stream for those not able to attend in person: https://www.youtube.com/live/UBTVeJ9o_ao
Kevin Blyton, owner of the Capital Radio Network and the Blyton Group of companies, died on Sunday October 19 at Cooma Hospital, after suffering a cardiac arrest.
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 (pictured).
Kevin 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.
This writer personally worked for him for eight years. At the outbreak of Covid when we were all scared for our jobs, Kevin organised for a live call to all stations and told us that none of us would be going anywhere, he was determined to make sure that we were looked after. This was just after the black summer bushfires of January 2020 which did catastrophic damage to Selwyn, leading to a rebuild over the next five years.
I spoke to him later and he said:
“Over 500 people work across the group. Not one person lost their job, had hours cut or wages cut because of Covid.
Radio gets me out of bed everyday just as it has for over 45 years now. I don’t feel any legacy. But commercial radio has been very good to me – I am very lucky.”
Kevin Blyton is survived by his daughter, Lucy Blyton-Gray and does leave an immense legacy across the broadcasting, leisure and hospitality industries.
Jen Seyderhelm is a writer, editor and podcaster for Radioinfo.