Northsound 2 is a commercial local radio station serving Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire on 1035 kHz on the medium wave band, online and on digital. Owned and operated by Bauer Radio, Northsound 2 plays music mainly from the 1960s and 1970s, alongside talk, news and sports coverage. The station also broadcasts weekly programmes of traditional Scottish music and soul on Sunday evenings, as well as a weekly religious show, also on Sunday evenings.
History[edit]
Northsound Radio commenced broadcasting at 6am on the 27th of July 1981 from converted studios in an old schoolhouse on Kings Gate, near Anderson Drive in Aberdeen. The station first broadcast from 6am-8pm each day. In 1995, the station split its services to become Northsound 1 and Northsound 2. Both stations now also broadcast online, on smartphone applications and DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting – i.e. Digital Radio). Northsound 2 is broadcast on 1035MW.
A new programming schedule was introduced on Monday 15 June 2009, consisting of some programming originating from Bauer's other AM stations in Scotland - Clyde 2 in Glasgow, Tay AM in Dundee and Forth 2 in Edinburgh.[1] Northsound 2's local programming is currently restricted to the breakfast show, weekend daytime shows, news and sport bulletins, live commentaries of Aberdeen F.C.'s league games and some specialist programming.
On 3 June 2013, station owners Bauer Radio announced Northsound 2 would axe its remaining local programming with the weekday breakfast show, currently presented by John McRuvie, replaced with a networked show hosted by Robin Galloway from Monday 1 July 2013 across Bauer's network of AM stations in Scotland.[2] Local news bulletins will be retained with some of Northsound 2's specialist output expanding to become networked programmes.
Programming[edit]
Weekdays[edit]
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Main presenter(s)/programme |
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| 0100 – 0600 |
Northsound 2 Through the Night (automated) |
Aberdeen |
| 0600 – 1000 |
John McRuvie |
| 1000 – 1400 |
Ally Ballingall |
Dundee |
| 1400 – 1800 |
Gary Marshall |
Glasgow |
| 1800 - 2200 |
Darren Adam |
Edinburgh |
| 2200 – 0100 |
Jim Symon |
Glasgow |
Friday variations[edit]
Saturday[edit]
| Time |
Main presenter(s)/programme |
Location |
| 0200 – 0700 |
Northsound 2 Through the Night (automated) |
Aberdeen |
| 0700 - 1000 |
Gary Marshall |
Glasgow |
| 1000 – 1400 |
John McRuvie and Cammy Campbell |
Aberdeen |
| 1400 - 1800 |
Superscoreboard Live |
| 1800 - 2000 |
Jack Sinclair |
| 2000 - 2200 |
Helen Macpherson |
| 2200 - 0100 |
Richard Allan |
Glasgow |
Past presenters[edit]
- Damien McLeod
- Martin Ingram
- Cammy Campbell
- Martyn Landles
- Rick Cowie
- Paul Martin Davis
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- Yvonne Silver
- Bruce Kennedy
- Ritchie Grant
- Andy Bouglas
- Evelyn Brown
- John Mair
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A team of five broadcast journalists produce news bulletins every hour, on the hour between 6am and 7pm weekdays, and between 7am and 2pm at weekends. At peak times (breakfast and drive) on weekdays, supplementary news headlines are broadcast on the half hour. A five-minute bulletin entitled Live at Five is broadcast at 5pm each weekday.
Other bulletins include a nightly business round-up at 6.40pm on weeknights and the Energy Zone weekdays at 7.30am for the North-East's oil & gas and renewables sectors.
Dedicated sports bulletins are broadcast at 8am, 1pm and 6pm, alongside reports within the hourly news bulletins. A weekend preview programme entitled Friday Sport is broadcast on Friday at 6pm, and a scores and results service is provided during Saturday afternoons.
Traffic and Travel[edit]
Traffic and Travel bulletins are broadcast during peak travel times (breakfast and drivetime).
News staff[edit]
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Editor
Joe Odber
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Broadcast Journalists
Rebecca Curran
Finlay Duncan
Richard Forbes
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Sports Editor
Dave Galloway
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Political Editor
Colin Mackay
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Management[edit]
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Programmes Director
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Head of News
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Sports Editor
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Advertising Sales Director
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