Avtar Lit

Avtar Lit was the owner and chairman of Sunrise Radio Group, He was listed by AIM magazine as one of the "20 most powerful Asians in British media" in 2005, and is said to have amassed a big personal fortune.[1] The main presenters Sarita Sabharwal and Ravi Sharma were moved over to MW 1035 radio channel.

Political ambitions

Avtar Lit stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Ealing Southall parliamentary constituency in the 2001 General Election. Sunrise Radio carried extracts from an interview with him in advance of this, contrary to section 90(2)(b) of the Broadcasting Act 1990; the Radio Authority (now Ofcom) fined Sunrise Radio £10,000. Avatar Lit's son, Surinderpal Singh Lit, commonly known as Tony Lit, stood, also unsuccessfully, as a candidate in the 2007 Ealing Southall by-election as the Conservative candidate.[2]

gollark: I'm awake then sometimes, but I guess it wouldn't be *too* horrible to do that at 2am?
gollark: Probably, but that would still be two hours a day or week or something of backups tying up the entire internet connection.
gollark: I mean, I would want to do backups often, and encrypted ones, which would prevent deduplication or whatever.
gollark: While saturating basically all of the available upload, which would annoy everyone.
gollark: But on my internet connection it'd still take 2 hours to copy that off to the interweb.

References
  1. "asiansinmedia.org". asiansinmedia.org. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. "Regulator archives - Ofcom – Radio Authority fines Sunrise Radio £10,000 (press release)". ofcom.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2017.


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