Your Radio
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City | Dumbarton |
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Broadcast area | Argyll & Bute, Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire |
Branding | Your Music, Your Station, Your Radio |
Frequency |
103 & 106.9 MHz DAB:10B |
First air date | 30 November 2003 |
Format | Classic and current hits |
Owner | Nation Broadcasting Group |
Website | Your Radio |
YOUR Radio (formerly Castle Rock FM) is an Independent Local Radio station, serving Argyll & Bute, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire. It is VT (Voice Tracked) and is owned and operated by Nation Broadcasting Group.
Overview
Originally broadcasting as Castle Rock FM, the Dumbarton-based licence relaunched as YOUR Radio when it expanded its coverage area to Helensburgh (broadcasting on 106.9 FM). Previously owned by Clyde and Forth Press, it was sold onto Romanes Media Group, until the firm was bought by Newsquest in August 2015.[1] Three months later, the station was bought out for an undisclosed sum by directors Gary Marshall and Spencer Pryor.[2] On 6th September 2018 Nation Radio took ownership of Your Radio.[3]
Programming
All of Your Radio's programming is produced and broadcast from Voice Tracked DJ's from various locations in Scotland. It is no longer a studio based operation. The station's weekday presenters are Derek McIntyre (Breakfast/Mid Morning) [4], Brian Woolfson (Lunch/Early Afternoon) [5], Matt Ventisei (Drivetime).[6] Weekend presenters Derek McIntyre, Tracy Cunningham.[7]. Apart from Matt Ventisei all DJ's are shared from Nation Radio Scotland 96.3FM.
News
Local news bulletins air hourly from 6am to 6pm and 6am to 12pm on weekdays.[8]
The station's journalists are Stephen McCabe, Tom Haile, Hannah Foster (Based at SunFM in Sunderland)