Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland

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Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland
Broadcast area North East Scotland
Frequency DAB: 11C
BrandingThe Good Times Sound Like This
Programming
Format Classic Hits
Network Greatest Hits Radio
Ownership
Owner Bauer Media Audio UK
Northsound 1
History
First air date
  • 9 January 1995;29 years ago (1995-01-09) (as Northsound 2)
  • 3 April 2023;13 months ago (2023-04-03) (as Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland
Former names
Northsound 2
Former frequencies
1035 kHz
Technical information
Licensing authority
 Ofcom
Links
Website GHR North East Scotland

Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire on DAB digital radio and online. Owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network of classic hit music stations in England, Scotland and Wales, carrying networked programmes originating mainly from Glasgow and Manchester 24 hours a day, featuring local news and traffic bulletins.

Contents

The station relaunched as Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland on 3 April 2023. [1] [2]

As of December 2023, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 37,000, according to RAJAR. [3]

History

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Former Northsound 2 logo used from 2015-2023
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Northsound 2 logo used from 2003 to 2015.

Northsound 2 was established on 9 January 1995 as a sister station to Northsound Radio, which was renamed Northsound 1 at the same time, and broadcast using the older station's AM frequency. [4]

On 3 June 2013, station owners Bauer Radio announced that Northsound 2 would axe its one remaining local programme, the weekday breakfast show which was presented by John McRuvie, and replace it with a networked show hosted by Robin Galloway from Monday 1 July 2013 across all of Bauer's network of AM stations in Scotland. [5] The station became part of the Bauer City 2 network (since rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio) upon its launch on Monday 5 January 2015.

On Tuesday 3 April 2018, Northsound 2 ceased broadcasting on AM and became a digital-only station on DAB and online. [6] [7] It is the first commercial radio station in Scotland - and the first of Bauer's local stations - to cease analogue broadcasting in favour of a digital switchover. [8]

Programming

Much of the station's programming is produced in Greatest Hits Radio's studios in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Some output is produced from GHR's Birmingham, London and Manchester studios and broadcast on both networks in Scotland and England. [9]

News

Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6a.m. to 7p.m. on weekdays and from 7a.m. to 1p.m. at weekends. Headlines are broadcast on the half hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside sport and traffic bulletins.

National bulletins from Sky News Radio are carried overnight with bespoke networked Scottish bulletins at weekends, produced from Radio Clyde's newsroom in Clydebank.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Naylor, Laura (12 January 2023). "Northsound 2 is changing to Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland from April 2023". Northsound 2. Bauer Media Audio UK. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  2. ↑ Martin, Roy (12 January 2023). "Bauer to rebrand seven heritage Scottish stations to Greatest Hits Radio". RadioToday . Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "RAJAR". www.rajar.co.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Radio Preview". Scotland on Sunday. 8 January 1995.
  5. ↑ Galloway goes national at Bauer Scotland, Radio Today, 3 June 2013
  6. ↑ Northsound 2 to make the switch to digital this week, Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce, 3 April 2018
  7. ↑ Radio station Northsound to switch off analogue service, BBC News, 9 March 2018
  8. ↑ Northsound 2 to switch off AM radio service, Radio Today, 8 March 2018
  9. ↑ "Public File (North East Scotland)". Planetradio.co.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2023.

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