Radio station in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Greatest Hits Radio Tayside & Fife
is an
Independent Local Radio
station based in
Dundee
, Scotland, owned and operated by
Bauer
as part of the
Greatest Hits Radio
network. It is broadcast in Dundee, Perth and Tayside.
As of December 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 35,000 listeners, according to
RAJAR
.
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History
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Radio Tay commenced broadcasting on 17 October 1980, in Dundee and 14 November 1980 in Perth with Gerry Quinn presenting the first show from the studios. In early years, the station broadcast only from 6am-8pm daily.
On 9 January 1995 the station split its services/frequencies to become Tay AM and Tay FM. Both stations are now also broadcast on DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting ? i.e. Digital Radio) and over the internet via their respective websites.
Tay 2 broadcast on 1161 AM in Dundee and 1584 AM in Perth, and was more oriented around older music than its sister station Tay FM, playing more classic hits from the past few decades, along with some of the more easy listening of modern-day offerings.
A new programming schedule was launched on 15 June 2009 which introduced some networked programming across Bauer's AM network. Tay AM retained its locally produced and presented breakfast and specialist evening shows (Tay AM was the only station to opt out of the network in the evenings, so they could continue to broadcast their heritage specialist shows), some weekend output, and Ally Ballingall's weekday mid-morning show, which was broadcast across Scotland from Radio Tay's Dundee studios. Outwith these times, programming was simulcast from other stations in the Scottish AM network.
On 3 June 2013, station owners Bauer Radio announced Tay AM would replace its weekday breakfast show beginning on 1 July 2013 with a networked show hosted by
Robin Galloway
across Bauer's network of AM stations in Scotland.
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Local news & traffic bulletins were retained with some networked programming broadcast from Tay AM's Dundee studios.
On 5 January 2015, Tay AM was renamed Tay 2 and became part of the
Greatest Hits Radio
network in Scotland and Northern England.
On 12 November 2023, it was announced that the station would cease broadcasting on medium wave before the end of the year, but would continue on DAB.
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Programming
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Most of Tay 2's programming was carried from
Greatest Hits Radio's network
of locally branded Scottish stations with some off-peak output also carried from GHR's sister network in England. Most of the output originates from the studios of
Clyde 2
in Clydebank,
Forth 2
in Edinburgh and from Greatest Hits Radio's
Birmingham
,
Nottingham
,
London
and
Manchester studios
. Occasional programming was produced and broadcast from
MFR 2
in Inverness,
Northsound 2
in Aberdeen and
West Sound
in
Ayrshire
and
Dumfries and Galloway
.
News
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Tay 2 broadcast local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays and from 7am to 1pm on weekends. Headlines were broadcast on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside sport and traffic bulletins.
National bulletins from
Sky News Radio
were carried overnight with bespoke networked Scottish bulletins at weekends, produced from
Radio Clyde
's newsroom in Clydebank.
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