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Media in Aberdeen have long been published or broadcast. The main newspaper of the city and the surrounding area, the ''Press and Journal'', has been made and printed in the city since 1748, making it

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's oldest newspaper. The city has a number of regional radio stations and has local production facilities for the

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and ITV. Aberdeen is famous for the entertainers of Scotland The What. Student media at the

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are also very active: student newspaper ''The

Gaudie ''The Gaudie'' is a student newspaper at the University of Aberdeen covering campus and local news. It has been in circulation since 1934 and is currently free of charge. It aims to print unbiased, student-focused articles. ''The Gaudie'' is pa ...

'', Aberdeen Student Radio and Granite City TV are all produced by students.

Newspaper

The main newspapers of Aberdeen are the daily '' Press and Journal'' and the '' Evening Express'', both printed six days a week by

Aberdeen Journals Aberdeen Journals Ltd. is a newspaper publisher based in Aberdeen, Scotland. The company publishes the '' Press and Journal'', the '' Evening Express'', the '' Aberdeen Citizen'' and ''Scot-Ads'' newspapers. It was owned by Northcliffe Newspa ...

. There is also a job and second-hand advertising paper, '' Scot-Ads'', and free papers ''

Aberdeen Citizen The ''Aberdeen Citizen'' was the highest distributed free newspaper in Aberdeen. It was a weekly newspaper. Launched in 1989, as the ''Aberdeen Herald & Post'', it was re-launched as its current title in 2002. It provided a round-up of the week's ...

'' and the new weekly paper ''City Life''. Student newspaper The

is produced fortnightly during term time at the

. It is free and is distributed around the Kings College Campus and throughout the city.

Television

For over 45 years, Aberdeen has been home to the ITV regional franchise for northern Scotland,

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, broadcast from a converted tram depot in the Queens Cross area. Since a takeover by the

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(now STV Group plc) in 1997, Grampian's identity and local programming output have gradually been depleted: now Grampian is officially known as STV North, and broadcasts from smaller studios in the

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area of the city. The local news programme '' STV News at Six'' is still produced from Aberdeen alongside regional commercials. BBC Scotland also have a base in Aberdeen's Beechgrove area. BBC Aberdeen is most known for Tern TV's production of ''

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'' television and BBC radio programmes.

Local radio

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

has three local commercial radio stations:

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

on 96.9, 97.6 & 103 FM, Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland on DAB, and Original 106 on 106.8 & 106.3 FM. The Northsound 1 and Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland stations operated as a single station,

Northsound Radio Northsound Radio was the name for the original Independent Local Radio station broadcast from Aberdeen and serving the North East of Scotland. In 1995, the station split to become two separate stations. History Until summer 1981, the only loc ...

, until 1995.

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broadcasts local news opt-out bulletins for Aberdeen and North East Scotland on weekdays. Latest audience figures put Northsound 1 as the number one radio station in the area. Original 106 have increased their audience share to become the second most listened to local radio statio

with 100% of programming output produced and presented in-house. Northsound 1 broadcasts locally-generated programming from their Aberdeen studios for 8 hours during weekdays: 4 hours in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. The rest of the output (16 hours per day) is shared programming from Glasgow and Manchester. There was a community radio station called ''North East Community Radio FM'' ( NECR FM), broadcasting from

Kintore, Aberdeenshire Kintore (; Gaelic: ''Ceann Tòrr'') is a town and former royal burgh near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, now bypassed by the A96 road between Aberdeen and Inverness. It is situated on the banks of the River Don. Nearby are the remains ...

whose signal reached some parts of Aberdeen city. It closed in 2018. The ''Station House Media Unit'' (based at Station House, a partially National Lottery-funded community project) runs a radio station broadcasting with a five-year community licence on 99.8 MHz FM, known as SHMU FM. Before it acquired its FM licence, the station was available on the internet. SMHU FM continues to provide access to their live broadcast via their website. In the 1990s, the

Aberdeen University Students' Association Aberdeen University Students' Association (often referred to as AUSA) is the students' association of the University of Aberdeen, an ancient university in the city of Aberdeen in North East Scotland. It organises recreational activities; provi ...

(then known as the Aberdeen University Students' Assembly, and acting through one of its constituent bodies, the Students' Representative Council) obtained a

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(RSL) for temporary FM radio broadcasts; its station was first known as ''Slick FM''. This has now become the internet station Aberdeen Student Radio, which broadcasts every day during term time from the Kings College campus. In addition, a multi-ethnic community organisation entitled ''Multi-ethnic Aberdeen Ltd.'' runs ''Multi-ethnic FM (Me FM)'' on an annual basis using an RSL and has said it hopes to apply for a permanent licence. At other times, internet broadcasts are employed.

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