Celtic Music Radio Director - Bob McWilliam
Bob is a member Friend of Celtic Connections, Scotland’s biggest winter music festival which takes place in Glasgow during January each year. The festival attracts over 100,000 people to events throughout the City of Glasgow.
His interest in Scottish traditional music goes back to the early 1970s when he was the ‘roadie’ for Clydebank folk group The Crofters, led by the late Alan McGregor who died suddenly in October 2003.
An experienced sales, PR and programming man, he was founder and launch programme director of the then Paisley-based local commercial radio station Q96 FM in 1992; he was an advisor to Dumbarton area local commercial station Castle Rock FM 103 in1995 and was appointed a director of Castle Rock FM Dumbarton Limited in February 2000. He compiled and wrote the successful Radio Authority licence application documents for the Dumbarton area licence in 2001 and Helensburgh area licence in 2003.
He resigned on 31st January 2004 from the new owners of Castle Rock FM which had been bought by new owners and renamed Your Radio after completing the successful transition from Castle Rock FM 103 to YOURradio and following the award of the Helensburgh area local radio licence by the then Radio Authority and setting-up the transmission arrangements for the new licence area.
Bob is also a member of the
Radio Academy.
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