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BY Jen Seyderhelm June 1, 2026
What's New October 20, 2025
Updated with funeral details – RIP Kevin Blyton
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
The Capital Radio Network has announced that Kevin Blyton, owner of the 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).
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.
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 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.
“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.
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BY Jen Seyderhelm June 1, 2026
Went to radio school with Kev many many years ago back in the mid 70s and I worked with him too at 2XL Cooma sad to hear
This is incredibly sad to hear. Kevin will be very much missed across the industry.
Sad to see the news about Kevin today.
He was good enough to give me a job 3 times during my radio career and I’ll always be grateful for that.
Kevin was a true radio person who just loved the medium and was genuinely excited by it. Always enjoyed swapping notes about the latest radio news with him.
A favourite memory was when us young jocks at 2XL/Snow FM had to work and miss out on seeing family at Christmas so he invited us to dinner at his place and then proceeded to screen a movie via a massive projector beamed onto the side of his house.
Sad day today RIP Kevin
A visionary. There was truly no one in the industry quite like Kevin.
Yesterday I hosted a radio show on one of Kevin’s stations, 2CA. I found out about his passing just prior to the shift.
It was one of the toughest shows I’ve had to navigate in my long career on air.
Kev and I were good buddies at Max Rowley’s Radio School in Goulburn st Sydney.
After our evening classes he and I would head to Maccas and dissect the night including impressions of other students.
SORRY.
He got a job at 2XL in Cooma and I drove him there on the weekend before he started.
It was a tiny flat and all he had was a suitcase and a pillow and blanket.
A couple of months later I too grabbed a suitcase, pillow and blanket to started my radio journey at 2LF in Young and we sort of went our separate ways for decades.
It’s been an honour to have worked for him periodically over the last decade or so.
Wonderful guy and I miss him incredibly.