Forth 1 is an

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station based in Edinburgh, Scotland, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the

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network. It broadcasts to

Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

Lothian Lothian (; sco, Lowden, Loudan, -en, -o(u)n; gd, Lodainn ) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills and the Moorfoot Hills. The principal settlement is the Sco ...

and

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...

. As of September 2022, the station has a weekly audience of 315,000 listeners according to

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History

Radio Forth Radio Forth is a group of two Independent Local Radio stations serving Edinburgh, Lothians and Fife. Radio Forth is owned and operated by Bauer, based at studios in Edinburgh and forms part of Bauer's Hits Radio network and Greatest Hits Radio ne ...

was launched on 22 January 1975 by current chairman Richard Findlay. His opening speech included "This, for the very first time is Radio Forth". Steve Hamilton was the first on-air presenter, hosting the breakfast show. In 1990, Forth was forced to create a new station on its AM frequency. Before this, Radio Forth was broadcast as a single station on both FM and AM frequencies. The FM station was renamed Radio Forth RFM (later simplified to Forth FM) with Donny Hughes broadcasting the first Breakfast Show from the newly revamped Studio F in Forth House. The new AM station became "Max AM" which was later renamed ''Forth AM'' to match its sister station. In 2000, both stations were relaunched as ''97.3 Forth One'' and '' 1548 Forth 2''. Forth 2 was redesigned as an adult contemporary music station while Forth One continued to play Top 40 songs for the 35s and under. Radio Forth was owned by Scottish Radio Holdings until 3 June 2005 when British media group

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took over. In January 2008, EMAP Radio was sold to Bauer and the radio division was renamed

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. Ownership changes have led to more networked programming on the station. On Friday 17 June 2022, Forth 1 broadcast from their studios at Forth House for the final time. During the breakfast show at 7.45 the station played a farewell montage before walking to their new studios at

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where the first link was broadcast just after 8am. The first song played from the new studios was 'New Emotion' by

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Programming

Local programming 'Boogie in the morning' is produced and broadcast from Radio Forth's Edinburgh studios based within

shopping centre from 6am-10am Monday-Friday. The station also produces networked programming on Saturday mornings - ''Boogie and Arlene, also The Big Saturday Football Show with Steven Mill & Ewen Cameron and Sunday Evenings with Micky Gavin.'' Forth 1 also airs networked programming from

Clyde 1 Clyde 1 is an Independent Local Radio station based in Glasgow, Scotland, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Glasgow and West Central Scotland. As of September 2022, the station has a weekly audi ...

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

Tay FM Tay FM is an Independent Local Radio station serving Dundee, Perth, Scotland, Perth and Tayside in Scotland. The station is owned by and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK, Bauer and forms part of the Hits Radio network. As of September 2022, the ...

in Dundee and

in Manchester. StJamesQuarterInterior

News

Forth 1 broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays and from 7am to 1pm at weekends. Headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside sport and traffic bulletins. National bulletins from

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are carried overnight with bespoke networked Scottish bulletins at weekends, produced from

Radio Clyde Radio Clyde is a group of two Independent Local Radio stations serving Glasgow and West Central Scotland. Radio Clyde is owned and operated by Bauer, based at studios in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire and forms part of Bauer's Hits Radio and Gr ...

's newsroom in Clydebank.

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