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The FM station was renamed Radio Forth RFM and aimed at a younger age group, while Max AM was designed for over 35s. The FM station was later renamed Forth FM and then in the mid-late 90s, Max AM was later renamed Forth AM to match its sister station. In 2000, both stations were relaunched as 97.3 Forth One and 1548 FORTH2. Many changes ...
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 EMAP took over. In January 2008, EMAP Radio was sold to Bauer and the radio division was renamed Bauer Radio. Ownership ...
Entrance to Forth House in Forth Street, Edinburgh. Forth 2 logo used from 2013 to 2015. Radio Forth was launched on 22 January 1975 by its then managing director the late 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.
August – Radio Forth becomes the first Independent Local Radio station to broadcast a part-time split service. It is Festival City Radio, which provides coverage of the 1984 Edinburgh Festival on MW, while Radio Forth continues on FM. 7 September – Commercial radio returns to Leicester, eleven months after Centre Radio went off air.
15 July – Radio Forth is replaced on FM by Radio Forth RFM and on MW by Max AM. 1991. 19 October – SIBC begins broadcasting to the Shetland Islands. 1992. 14 March – Heartland FM begins broadcasting to the Scottish towns of Pitlochry and Aberfeldy. 1 September – Q96 begins broadcasting to Paisley in Renfrewshire. 1993. No events. 1994
Having spent some time working at other Scottish radio stations, he returned to Radio Forth in 2003 as the station's Head of Music for both FM (Forth 1) and AM (Forth 2) stations, and hosted two shows per week, including Old Skool. In addition, away from music, Wilson was a fan of Heart of Midlothian F.C.
Dave Bussey started his career on Radio Forth (Edinburgh) before spending five years at Radio Tay (Dundee and Perth). One show he presented was The Sunday Challenge but was used as a relief presenter for most other programmes. Bussey spent a year at Northsound Radio (Aberdeen) He was a weekend presenter on BBC Radio 2. While there he also ...
Radio Borders was an Independent Local Radio station, originally based in Tweedbank before moving into studios at St James Quarter, Edinburgh, in October 2022. The station was owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio Network.