Northsound 1

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Northsound 1
Northsound 1 logo 2015.png
Broadcast area Aberdeenshire
Frequency FM:
96.9 MHz
97.6 MHz
103.0 MHz
DAB: 11C
RDS N'SOUND1
BrandingAcross North East Scotland
Programming
Format CHR/Pop
Network Hits Radio
Ownership
Owner Bauer Media Audio UK
Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland
History
First air date
  • 27 July 1981;42 years ago (1981-07-27) (as Northsound Radio)
  • 9 January 1995;29 years ago (1995-01-09) (as Northsound 1)
Former frequencies
1035 MW
Links
Webcast Northsound 1 Player
Website Northsound 1

Northsound 1 is an Independent Local Radio station based in Aberdeen, Scotland, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Aberdeenshire and North East Scotland.

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As of December 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 115,000 listeners according to RAJAR.

History

Northsound 1 logo used from 2003 to 2015. Northsound 1 Logo.png
Northsound 1 logo used from 2003 to 2015.

Until Northsound Radio's establishment, the only local radio output available to listeners in the North East of Scotland was a regional opt-out from the BBC at Beechgrove, which broadcast specialist music programmes for a couple of hours a week along with some opt-out regional news coverage. When a commercial radio franchise for Aberdeen, Peterhead and the surrounding areas was advertised by the then-regulator, the Independent Broadcasting Authority, a group of local businessmen applied under the consortium of North of Scotland Radio Ltd and won the franchise.

After a change of name, Northsound Radio commenced broadcasting at 6 am on 27 July 1981 from its original studios in an old schoolhouse on Kings Gate, near Anderson Drive in the city. Originally, the station was broadcast from 6 am to 8 pm each day on 1035 kHz (290 metres) and 96.9 FM (VHF).

For a two-year period from 1994, the station was the main sponsor of Aberdeen Football Club, with the logo appearing on the players' shirts. [1]

On 9 January 1995, [2] Northsound Radio was renamed Northsound 1 and Northsound 2 was established as a classic hits station using the station's AM frequency. Both stations have since started broadcasting on DAB radio and online.

Free concerts

From 1997 until 2007, Northsound held free music concerts in Aberdeen almost bi-annually. Northsound delivered its first major outdoor event when the Tall Ships arrived in Aberdeen, which called Free at the Quay. Following its success, Free 2000 was staged at the Queen’s Links at Aberdeen Beach followed by Free at the Dee at Duthie Park.

Due to the numbers attending, Northsound decided to move the event to Hazlehead Park and the event was renamed to simply Free 2007. More than 30,000 people attended Free 2007 which saw Beverley Knight, McFly, Shayne Ward, Booty Luv, MacDonald Brothers, Ali Love, Unklejam and others perform free.

Northsound are also sponsors and organisers of Aberdeen's free Hogmanay street party, where in previous years stars such as Sandi Thom, Travis and Amy MacDonald have played to large crowds.

Programming

Local programming intended exclusively for the Northsound 1 transmission area is limited to 4 hours per day on weekdays, and is produced and broadcast from Northsound's Aberdeen studios between 6am-10am.

Northsound 1 also airs networked programming from Clyde 1 in Clydebank, Forth 1 in Edinburgh, Tay FM in Dundee and Hits Radio in Manchester.

The station's local presenters are Jeff Diack and Lauren Mitchell (Northsound 1 Breakfast). [3]

News and sport

Northsound 1 broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays and from 7am to 1pm at weekends. Headlines are broadcast on the half hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside sport, traffic and business bulletins.

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

Extended sports coverage airs under the Superscoreboard banner on Saturday afternoons.

Notable DJs

See also

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References

  1. ↑ The history of the blue kit, Aberdeen Football Club, 27 June 2017
  2. ↑ "Radio Preview". Scotland on Sunday. 8 January 1995.
  3. ↑ Northsound 1 - DJs
  4. ↑ "BBC NEWS, programmes, now you're talking, Nicky Campbell", BBC News, BBC, retrieved 17 February 2015
  5. ↑ Sabbagh, Dan (14 October 2012), "Nicky Campbell interview: 'Up north? For me, this is down south'", The Guardian, retrieved 17 February 2015
  6. 1 2 "Point of law - The Diary, 8 April 2010", The Herald Scotland, 8 April 2010, retrieved 17 February 2015

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