Moray Firth Radio

MFR / Moray Firth Radio

City of license	Inverness
Broadcast area	Moray, Highland, Orkney and parts of Aberdeenshire
Slogan	The North's Number 1 / News you need, music you love
Frequency	97.4, 96.6, 96.7, 102.5, 102.8 MHz, 1107 kHz, Online
First air date	23 February 1982
Format	Contemporary
Audience share	29.6% (March 2010, [1])
Owner	Bauer Radio
Website	www.mfr.co.uk

Moray Firth Radio or MFR is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the Scottish Highlands, Moray, the Orkney islands and parts of north west Aberdeenshire. The station, owned and operated by Bauer Radio, broadcasts from studios in the Scorguie area of Inverness and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations.

Station information

Moray Firth Radio operates two separate services on 97.4 FM (from the Mounteagle transmitter) and 1107 AM.

MFR on FM largely broadcasts contemporary and chart music-led programming alongside hourly news bulletins and traffic & sports updates. The majority of the station's output is produced and broadcast from the Inverness studios. Networked programming shared with the rest of Bauer's Scottish FM stations, is carried between 10pm & 6am each night and on weekend mornings, and broadcasts from Clyde 1's Glasgow studios and Forth 1's Edinburgh studios. As of Saturday 24 September 2011, the station also airs a weekly bilingual music programme in English and Scots Gaelic.^[1]

MFR Two on AM airs specialist programming on Sunday - Friday evenings and live sports coverage on Saturday afternoons with automated music broadcast at all other times. The station does not take any output from Bauer's network of AM stations elsewhere in Scotland.

In addition to the main services, there are several local relay stations which opt-out of MFR FM to broadcast local programming during the evening.

• Speysound (96.6 FM Strathspey)
• Keith Community Radio (102.8 FM Keith)
• Kinnaird Radio (96.7 FM Fraserburgh)
• Caithness FM (102.5 FM Caithness)

Programming

MFR FM schedule

Weekdays

Time	Main presenter(s)/programme	Location
0100 – 0600	Adrian Coll	Glasgow
0600 – 1000	Ginno & Nicky at Breakfast: Ginno Conti & Nicky Marr	Inverness
1000 – 1400	Tich McCooey
1400 – 1800	Jodie McCluskey
1800 - 2200	Ken Kelman
2200 – 0100	Late Night Gina McKie	Glasgow

Friday variations

Time	Main presenter/programme	Location
0100 - 0600	Kevin Cameron	Glasgow
2200 - 0100	Friday Night Floorfillers with Krystle	Edinburgh

Saturday

Time	Main presenter(s)/programme	Location
0100 – 0600	Kevin Cameron	Glasgow
0600 – 0900	Davey D	Inverness
0900 - 1200	Boogie and Dingo	Edinburgh
1200 - 1400	Tich McCooey	Inverness
1400 - 1800	Ginno Conti
1800 - 2000	The Scottish Chart Show: Davey D and Roya McLean (bilingual)
2000 - 2200	David Strachan
2200 – 0100	Saturday Night with Krystle	Edinburgh

Sunday

Time	Main presenter(s)/programme	Location
0100 – 0600	Kevin Camerfon	Glasgow
0600 - 0900	Davey D	Inverness
0900 - 1200	Robin Galloway	Glasgow
1200 – 1500	Jodie McCluskey	Inverness
1500 - 1600	MFR's Best Bits
1600 – 1900	The Vodafone Big Top 40: Rich Clarke & Kat Shoob	Leicester Square, London
1900 – 2000	MFR's Greatest Hits (automated)	Inverness
2000 - 2200	Marion Scott
2200 - 0100	Late Night Gina McKie	Glasgow

MFR Two programming schedule

^[2]

Day	Time	Programme/Presenter
Monday	1900	Dan Chisholm
	2100	The Big Picture: James Munro
Tuesday	1900	60s Rewind: Richard Jones
	2000	80s Rewind: Paul Stephenson
Wednesday	1900	Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll: Frank Adam
	2000	Helen's Kinda Country: Helen Macpherson
Thursday	1900	All Scottish
Friday	1900	The Friday Sports Show: John Rose
	2000	70s Rewind with Jonesy: Richard Jones
	2200	Colin Miller
Saturday	1400	MFR Two Sport
	1710	MFR Two Sport: Extra Time
Sunday	1900	Celtic Cafe: Ian Simpson
	2100	Crossfire: Len Black / Ian Hamilton

N.B. Automated music is broadcast outside programming hours.

News, Sport and Traffic & Travel

Moray Firth Radio broadcasts news bulletins on the hour between 0600 & 2200 on weekdays and 0600 & 1400 at weekends with additional national evening bulletins on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Half-hourly headlines are broadcast during weekday breakfast and drive time shows along with two 15-minute bulletins at 1pm and 5pm.

Most bulletins are produced by a locally-based team of four broadcast journalists and two sport journalists. The Head of News is Katherine Frette.

MFR Two airs live match commentaries on Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Saturday afternoon league games during the football season along with updates on Ross County, Elgin City & Highland League matches, a preview show on Friday evenings and a post-match analysis programme on Saturdays.

Management

Managing/Programming Director Danny Gallager

Sales & Commercial Director Hilary Cartwright

Programming Manager David Walker

Chief Engineer Malcolm Lee

Head of News Katherine Frette

Sponsorship and Promotions Manager Duncan Chisholm

Head of Creative Services Paul Stephenson

Head of Commercial Scheduling Craig Noble

Chief Copywriter Ray Atkinson

Head of Music Tich McCooey

References

1. ^ Moray Firth Radio takes Gaelic Chart Show, Radio Today, 20 September 2011
2. ^ MFR website

External links

• Official web site
• MDS975's Moray Firth Radio page

Coordinates: 57°28′49″N 4°15′18″W / 57.4803°N 4.2550°W / 57.4803; -4.2550