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Northsound 1
Aberdeen;
Broadcast area	Aberdeenshire
Frequency	FM:; 96.9 MHz; 97.6 MHz; 103.0 MHz; DAB: 11C
RDS	N'SOUND1
Branding	Across North East Scotland
Programming
Format	CHR/Pop
Network	Hits Radio
Ownership
Owner	Bauer Media Audio UK
Sister stations	Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland
History
First air date	27 July 1981 (42 years ago)
Former frequencies	1035 MW
Links
Webcast	Northsound 1 Player
Website	Northsound 1

Northsound 1 is an Independent Local Radio station based in Aberdeen, Scotland, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Aberdeenshire and North East Scotland.

As of December 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 115,000 listeners according to RAJAR.

History edit

Northsound 1 logo used from 2003 to 2015.

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 was broadcast from 6 am to 8 pm each day on 1035 kHz (290 metres) and 96.9 FM (VHF).

In 1995, the station split its services to become Northsound 1 and Northsound 2. Both stations now also broadcast online, on smartphone applications and DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting – i.e. Digital Radio).

Programming edit

Local programming is produced and broadcast from Northsound's Aberdeen studios from 6am-10am weekdays.

Northsound 1 also airs networked programming from Clyde 1 in Clydebank, Forth 1 in Edinburgh, Tay FM in Dundee and Hits Radio in Manchester.

The station's local presenters are Jeff Diack and Lauren Mitchell (Northsound 1 Breakfast).^[1]

News and sport edit

Northsound 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, traffic and business bulletins.

National bulletins from Sky News Radio are carried overnight with networked Scottish bulletins at weekends, produced from Radio Clyde's newsroom in Clydebank.

Extended sports coverage airs under the Superscoreboard banner on Saturday afternoons.