Celtic Music Radio, which normally broadcasts to Glasgow and the surrounding area on 1530kHz, can now be heard on DAB digital radio across large parts of the UK.
For the duration of the Celtic Connections festival, we’ll be on the DAB “Pop Up Radio” channel, as well as our usual frequency.
Our DAB transmission went “live” at 00:00 on Monday, and we’ll be on DAB for the next 3 weeks. The festival kicks off on Thursday, and we’ll be broadcasting from our temporary studio in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall every day from 11.00 until 19.00, with live music, impromptu sessions, interviews, and all the action from the Danny Kyle Open Stage. After that, it’s back to our usual studio, and maybe out and about to other festival venues.
The “Pop Up” DAB channel can be heard in areas where the mux is provided by Arqiva – about a third of the UK. This includes Ayrshire, Berkshire & North Hants, Bristol, Cambridge, Cornwall, Coventry and Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Essex, Herts., Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Norwich, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Peterborough, Plymouth, South East Devon, Cardiff & South East Wales, South Hampshire, Sussex Coast, Swindon, West Wiltshire and Wolverhampton & Shropshire.
It’s been quite an eventful day for us at Celtic Music Radio – as well as the DAB service, we got notification that our license has been extended until 2018.
It’s also our birthday! We’ve been on the air “full time” for exactly 4 years, launching at 15.30 on 16 Jan 2008, following several RSLs. If any of our community radio colleagues are in the Glasgow area over the next few weeks, you’re very welcome to drop by our temporary base in the concert hall.
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… and if anyone from the community radio world is in the Glasgow area over the next couple of weeks, you’re welcome to drop by our “outside broadcast” desk in the concert hall – we’re on air from 11am until 7pm weekdays, slightly different hours at weekends.
January 22nd, 2012
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