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Northsound 1 is a radio station serving Aberdeen and the north east of Scotland. Owned and operated by Bauer Radio, Northsound 1 is a part of the Scottish Big City Network and plays contemporary music from the 1980s to today, alongside news, sport and travel bulletins. Daytime and weekend evening programming is produced and presented from studios in Tullos, Aberdeen. Northsound 1's main 96.9 FM transmitter is located at Durris, near Stonehaven. It also broadcasts on 97.6 FM from the Balgownie transmitter covering north Aberdeen, and on 103.0 FM from Stirling Hill covering the Peterhead area.

Since 15th September 2008, Northsound 1 and all other Big City Network stations in Scotland air networked programmes on weekday evenings, weekend late nights and overnight from Clyde 1 in Glasgow.

Northsound Radio commenced broadcasting at 6 am on 27 July 1981 from converted studios in an old schoolhouse on Kings Gate, near Anderson Drive in Aberdeen. Originally, the station broadcast from 6 am to 8 pm each day. In 1995, the station split its services to become Northsound 1 and Northsound 2. Both stations now also broadcast on DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting โ€“ i.e. Digital Radio).

A team of four broadcast journalists produce news bulletins every hour, on the hour, between 6 am and 7 pm weekdays, and between 7 am and 2 pm at weekends. A late night bulletin is broadcast at 10pm every night. At peak times (breakfast and drive) on weekdays, supplementary news headlines are broadcast on the half hour. A five-minute bulletin entitled Live at Five is broadcast at 5pm each weekday.

Dedicated sports bulletins are broadcast at 8am, 1pm and 5:30pm, alongside reports within the hourly news bulletins and a scores & results service during Saturday afternoons.

Traffic and travel bulletins are broadcast during peak travel times (breakfast and drivetime), accompanied by 'Jambuster' reports when there is major congestion at any time.

Editor
Joe Odber

Broadcast Journalists
Rebecca Curran
Alison McDonald
Fiona Winchester

Sports Editor
Steven McMenemy

Chairman
Andrew Lewis

Managing Director
Luke McCulloch

Station Director
Chris Thomson

Head of News & Sport
Sarah Campbell

Sports Editor
David Ridd

Advertising Sales Director
Joanne Bayliss

Chief Engineer
Ken Hancock

Big City Network: CFM ยท Hallam FM ยท Key 103 ยท Metro Radio ยท Radio City 96.7 ยท 96.3 Radio Aire ยท 97.4 Rock FM ยท TFM Radio ยท 96.9 Viking FM

Big City Scotland and Northern Ireland: 102.5 Clyde 1 ยท Cool FM  ยท Downtown Radio ยท 97.3 Forth One ยท Tay FM ยท 97.4 MFR ยท Moray Firth Radio 1107AM ยท Northsound 1 ยท Radio Borders ยท 96.7 West FM ยท West Sound FM

Kiss Network: Kiss 100 ยท Kiss 101 ยท Kiss 105-108

Magic Network: Magic 105.4 ยท Magic AM ยท Magic 828 ยท Magic 999 ยท Magic 1152 ยท Piccadilly Magic 1152 ยท Magic 1161 ยท Magic 1170 ยท Magic 1548

Scottish AM stations: Clyde 2 ยท 1548 Forth 2 ยท Northsound 2 ยท Tay AM ยท West Sound (AM)

Other radio assets: Kerrang! 105.2 (West Midlands FM and national digital)  ยท Wave 105 ยท City Talk 105.9

UK Consumer Titles: Angling Times ยท Bella ยท Bike ยท Bird Watching ยท Car ยท Classic Bike ยท Classic Cars ยท Closer ยท Country Walking ยท Digital Photo ยท Empire ยท FHM ยท First ยท Freesail ยท Garden Answers ยท Garden News ยท Golf World ยท Grazia ยท Improve Your Coarse Fishing ยท Heat ยท Instant Beauty ยท Kerrang! ยท Land Rover Owner International ยท Match ยท Max Power ยท Model Rail ยท Mojo ยท More! ยท Mother & Baby ยท Motorcycle News (MCN) ยท New Woman ยท Parker's ยท Performance Bikes ยท Pop ยท Practical Classics ยท Practical Fishkeeping ยท Practical Photography ยท Pregnancy & Birth ยท Puzzle Magazines ยท Q ยท RAIL ยท RiDE ยท Sea Angler ยท Shopping for Baby ยท Skiing ยท Steam Railway ยท Spirit&Destiny ยท Take a Break ยท That's life! ยท Today's Golfer ยท Top Sante ยท Total TVguide ยท Trail ยท Trout & Salmon ยท Trout Fisherman ยท TV Choice ยท TV Quick ยท Waves ยท What Bike? ยท Your Horse ยท Yours ยท Zoo

US Consumer Titles: ASTROgirl ยท First for Women ยท In Touch Weekly ยท J-14 ยท Life & Style Weekly ยท Life Story ยท M ยท QuizFest ยท Soaps in Depth ยท Twist ยท Woman's World

German Consumer Titles: Bravo ยท Das Neue Blatt

Business Publications: AM ยท Fleet News ยท Pet Product Marketing ยท Sewells Information and Research

Distribution: Seymour ยท Frontline

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