Radio Saltire is a

community radio Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular ...

station broadcasting primarily to

East Lothian East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921. In 1975, the histo ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

on 106.7 & 107.2 FM and online. The station is a

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registered in Scotland (SC044336). The station is run by volunteers from across East Lothian and south-east Scotland. In September 2013 they re-branded as Radio Saltire and moved to

Tranent Tranent is a town in East Lothian (formerly Haddingtonshire), in the south-east of Scotland. The town lies 6 miles from the boundary of Edinburgh, and 9.1 miles from the city centre. It lies beside the A1 road, the A1 runs through the parish ...

, East Lothian. In August 2014, they moved to their current premises at 5 Civic Square, Tranent. Full details on shows and presenters can be found at www.radiosaltire.com Radio Saltire has broadcasting licences from

PRS for Music PRS for Music Limited (formerly The MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited) is a British music copyright collective, made up of two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS). It undertakes ...

and the

Phonographic Performance Limited Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) is a British music copyright collective. It is a private limited company that is registered in the UK. PPL was founded by Decca Records and EMI and incorporated on 12 May 1934, and undertakes collective ...

(PPL) ensuring their legality and payment of

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to performers.

References

External links

Official website
Internet radio stations in the United Kingdom Tranent {{internet-bcast-stub