Celtic Music Radio is an Ofcom Community Radio Licensed station run by an independent board of directors and was awarded a full-time licence by Ofcom in July 2007, broadcasts on 1530 kHz AM/MW in and around the Glasgow and Clyde area and Online at: www.celticmusicradio.net
The radio station studios are based at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, promoted in collaboration with Creative and Aesthetic Studies, at the University of Strathclyde. It has broadcast live and recorded events at the last three Celtic Connections Festivals (January 2005-2008) and the Scottish International Piano Competition in September 2007. It now runs full-time with a 24/7 series of music programmes and reviews and previews with arts and cultural discussions.
Recently, Celtic Music Radio promoted the Aye Write! Festival through numerous previews and interviews, and has just covered the Glasgow Arts Fair 2008. In addition, there have been regular interviews and discussions with press office and staff from Glasgow’s Concert Halls and the Museum Service to promote activities and events.
One major part of the Celtic Music Radio mission, is to deliver an education programme to enable local communities to create programmes for broadcast, giving voice to local issues and cultural discussion and to encourage participation in the creative and cultural industries. Both the formal education sector and the community informal sector, are significant partners in this strategy.
Celtic Music Radio is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and has a mission to be a strong cultural voice for contemporary and traditional Scottish music, arts and culture, pioneering new frontiers in communication and broadcasting by including people that do not have access to
mainstream media.
The service is targeted at the Glasgow area’s practising creative artists in a broad range of music and cultural endeavour across a range of genres of music, media and speech.
The service aims to advance education, in particular by promoting the performance, learning and appreciation of a broad spectrum of Celtic music and cultural activity; to enhance the understanding of this genre of music and be pro-active in the development of the rich heritage of Celtic music and Scottish culture.
Celtic Music Radio is primarily for the good of members of the public in order to deliver social gain, rather than for commercial reasons;
Celtic Music Radio is intended primarily to serve a particular 'community of interest’;
Celtic Music Radio delivers its unique programmes on 1530 AM and by streaming audio Online on its website and during special events on partner websites.
To ensure social inclusion and availability to all, Celtic Music Radio broadcasts on analogue radio on 1530 AM medium waveband in the Glasgow area of Scotland.
Celtic Music Radio was awarded an Ofcom Community Radio Licence in July 2007 has now been ‘on-air’ full-time since 16 January in 2008.
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