Radio Borders

Radio Borders

Broadcast area	Scottish Borders and North Northumberland
Slogan	Your Music, Your Life
Frequency	FM: 96.8, 102.3, 103.1, 103.4 MHz
First air date	22 January 1990
Format	Contemporary
Audience share	34.1% (December 2013, RAJAR)
Owner	Bauer Radio
Webcast	Radio Borders
Website	www.radioborders.com

Radio Borders is a radio station broadcasting to the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland^[1] from studios in Tweedbank, just outside Galashiels. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's City 1 network of local FM stations.

Radio Borders regularly broadcasts local news, weather, and traffic information as well as sports coverage at weekends. Its music format consists mostly of music from the charts of today with the occasional older song from as far back as the 1980s. The station holds some of the highest listening figures (linked to the population) amongst all UK local radio stations.

Radio Borders logo used from 1998 to 2015.

Programming

Local programming is produced and broadcast from Radio Borders' Tweedbank studios from 6am-2pm and 3-7pm on weekdays, 2-6pm on Saturdays and 12-4pm on Sundays.

Radio Borders also airs networked programming from Clyde 1 in Clydebank, Forth 1 in Edinburgh, Key 103 in Manchester and Metro Radio in Newcastle. The Vodafone Big Top 40 is produced by Global Radio at its Capital studios in London for broadcast on 145 commercial radio stations in the UK.

The station's local presenters are Keith Clarkson (weekday breakfast), Gregor Runciman and Iain Waugh (Home Run).^[2]

News and sport

Radio Borders broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays, from 9am to 1pm on Saturdays and from 9am to 12pm on Sundays. Headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside sport, traffic and business bulletins. Local bulletins are produced in conjunction with Radio Forth's newsroom in Edinburgh.

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

Extended sports coverage, including live rugby union commentary, airs under the Superscoreboard banner on Saturday afternoons and on a magazine programme each Friday evening. The station's sports presenters are Stuart Cameron and David Knox.

References

↑ Franklin, Bob (2006). Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News. Routledge.
↑ Radio Borders - DJs

External links

Official website

Bauer Media Group

Publishing

Consumer titles (Australia)	APC Australian Geographic The Australian Women's Weekly Cleo Cosmopolitan Dolly Empire FHM Grazia Harper's Bazaar Motor NW OK! People The Picture Qantas The Australian Way Rolling Stone Rugby League Week Street Machine Take 5 TechLife Top Gear TV Week Wheels Woman's Day Zoo Weekly

Consumer titles (Germany)	Auf einen Blick Autozeitung Bravo Joy Das Neue Blatt Neue Post Volksstimme

Consumer titles (New Zealand)	Metro North & South

Consumer titles (United Kingdom)	Angling Times Bella Bike Bird Watching Car Classic Bike Closer Empire FHM First Golf World Grazia Heat Kerrang! Match Model Rail Mojo More! Motor Cycle News (MCN) Parker's Performance Bikes Pop Practical Classics Practical Fishkeeping Practical Photography Pregnancy & Birth Q RAIL Take a Break That's Life! Today's Golfer TV Choice TV Quick Zoo

Consumer titles (United States)	ASTROgirl First for Women In Touch Weekly Ideas and Discoveries J-14 Life & Style Weekly M QuizFest Soap Opera Update (defunct) Soaps In Depth Twist Woman's World

Clyde 3
Forth 3
Hallam 3
Key 3
Metro 3 Radio
MFR 3
Radio Aire 3
Radio City 3
Rock FM 3
Tay 3
TFM 3
Viking 3

Free Radio

Bauer National

Absolute Radio	Absolute Classic Rock Absolute Radio Extra Absolute Radio 60s Absolute Radio 70s Absolute Radio 80s Absolute Radio 90s Absolute Radio 00s

Kiss Network	Kiss 100 Kiss 101 Kiss 105-108 KissFresh Kisstory

Digital radio	Heat The Hits Kerrang Radio

Other	Magic (Regional FM in London & National DAB) Planet Rock (National DAB) Cool FM Downtown Radio Gem 106 Radio City Talk Wave 105

The Box Plus Network
(50%)

Category

Radio stations in North East England

Major stations	Alpha Radio BBC Newcastle BBC Tees Capital Durham FM Great North Radio Heart Metro Radio Minster Northallerton Radio Borders Radio Tees Smooth Star Radio Sun FM TFM

Community radio	NE1fm Radio Hartlepool Radio Sunderland for Hospitals Radio Teesdale Spark FM Spice FM Tynedale FM

Student radio	Click Teesside Newcastle Student Radio Purple Radio

Pirate radio	Radio 270

DAB multiplexes	Metro Radio 2 Real Radio XS TFM 2

Radio in Scotland

BBC regional/local stations	BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio nan Gàidheal BBC Radio Shetland BBC Radio Orkney

Regional commercial stations	Capital Eklipse Sports Radio Heart Scotland

Local commercial stations	Radio Borders Central 103.1 FM Clyde 1 Clyde 2 Cuillin FM Forth 1 Forth 2 Isles FM Kingdom FM MFR NECR Nevis Radio Northsound 1 Northsound 2 Original 106 96.3 Rock Radio SIBC Smooth Radio Tay FM Tay AM Two Lochs Radio Wave 102 Waves Radio West FM West Sound AM West Sound FM Your Radio

Community, charity & non-profit stations	Alive Bute FM Celtic Music Radio Insight Radio Isles FM Mearns FM Revival FM The Superstation

Student stations	Air3 Radio Caley Fresh Air Subcity Radio UWS Radio

Defunct stations	L107 Peninsula FM Q96 Real Radio River FM Scot FM Talk 107

Scottish DAB multiplexes	Central Scotland (regional) Aberdeen Ayr Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Inverness

UK national BBC services	BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 5 Live

UK national commercial services	Absolute Radio Classic FM Talksport

UK national DAB multiplexes	BBC National DAB Digital One

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