The members of Radio North Angus Ltd wish our audiences a good New Year and every happiness in 2012.
We would also wish to thank all who supported us in 2011, including Angus Community Health Partnership, advertisers, sponsors, and individuals. The assistance is very much appreciated.
On a personal note, I wish to express my gratitude to the members of Radio North Angus for their dedication throughout the past year.
Malcolm J B Finlayson
Managing Director
Radio North Angus is grateful to Mrs Georgiana Osborne, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Angus, for recording a Christmas message to our audiences.
The message highlighted events during the year, including the Royal Wedding at which she, and husband, James, were present.
She paid tribute to the citizens of the county, 45 Royal Marine Commando based at Condor, Arbroath, the recipients of the 2011 Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, and to the organisations and individuals involved in voluntary roles throughout Angus.
The message was broadcast at 1110 hours on Christmas Eve, copies of which can be made available on request.
The Lord Lieutenant of Angus, is the British monarch’s personal representative in an area which was defined by the Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996 consisting of the unitary Angus council area.
The lieutenancy area was previously defined by the Lord Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1975 as consisting of the Angus district, which was one of three districts of the two-tier Tayside Region created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, which divided the region between the Angus, Dundee City, and Perth and Kinross council areas. Prior to the 1975 order the lieutenancy area was the county of Angus, which was officially the county of Forfar until 1928.
The office was founded in 1794, and has had the following titles:
The School’s Out programmes, broadcast between 1600 and 1800, Monday to Friday, afford S4 to S6 students a unique opportunity on British Independent Local Commercial Radio to present their own radio programmes.
The programmes are designed specifically for a teenage audience, whilst giving presenters the opportunity for personal development and to acquire media skills. The service is looked upon favourably by prospective employers and by University selection panels, and can be regarded as community service for the three levels of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
Certain members have proceeded to follow successful careers in broadcasting. School students are currently being recruited for vacancies that will occur when their sixth year colleagues will leave school in the summer of 2012. Broadcasts can be conducted live from the stations based at Arbroath, Montrose, and Stracathro.
Training in music radio production consists of seven 2 hourly sessions, which include control desk operation, microphone technique, an appreciation of voice production, and programming techniques. Thereafter there are practice sessions during which the first programme is composed, which will be pre-recorded. The presenters proceed to programming which can be live or pre-recorded, depending on availability, in order to gain experience prior to transferring to present a School’s Out programme whenever the opportunity arises.
The commitment throughout is to present a programme once a week and schools are agreeable to allowing students to leave classes slightly early in order to conduct programming.
Contact should be made with Malcolm J B Finlayson, Managing Director, Radio North Angus Ltd, Rosemount Road, Arbroath, Angus DD11 2AT, e-mail: info@radionorthangus.co.uk.
We have recently been upgrading the Stracathro radio station to become a centre of radio communication for the people of North Angus, negating the present requirement to travel to Arbroath to participate in our broadcasts.
Over the past two years, we have reinstalled a transmitter at Stracathro, and extensively upgraded the studio and IT equipment from hospital radio to independent local radio requirements, the majority of the cost being borne by a grant from the Angus Council Community Grants Scheme. Separate telephone line and broadband facilities have recently been installed that allow for live programming to be relayed from Stracathro to the main transmission system in Arbroath, and subsequently broadcast on FM, DAB, and the internet. We have recently appealed in the Brechin Advertiser for volunteers specifically for the Stracathro station, and new members are currently being trained.
RNA has conducted football commentaries from the home games of Arbroath FC since 1996.
However, it has come to light that this compromises a contractual arrangement between the Scottish Football League and IMG, to which Arbroath FC must abide, and, accordingly, commentaries have ceased from immediate effect.
We are grateful to the Directors of Arbroath FC for the facilities to broadcast the commentaries over a protracted period, and to the SFL for being very understanding over this matter.
We wish both organisations every success for the future.
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