Forth One

Public File

Each local commercial radio station in the UK has requirements in respect of its music and local content, such as news, speech levels etc. These requirements are set out in the station "Format", a document issued by Ofcom, the UK’s radio regulator. This Public File contains details of the elements that Ofcom regulate, such as music tracks, local news etc. It is intended to give you a better understanding of our output and what we are doing for our local community.

News Bulletin Schedule including which bulletins provide local news and which provide only UK-wide bulletins

Recent News stories covered on air

The News team

The programme schedule

The average number of hours of automated programming within weekday daytimes and within daytimes on Saturdays and Sundays:
None

The amount of local programming per day produced by the station:
Monday to Friday 13 hours
Saturday 16 hours
Sunday 4 hours

Ofcom Localness Guidelines

Station Contact details:
Radio Forth
Forth House
Forth Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3LE

Tel: 0131 556 9255

Events/charities support or coverage:

The annual Radio Forth Awards took place on 7th November 2012 at Edinburgh’s iconic Usher Hall. The event saw, Lawson, Amelia Lily, Olly Murs & the legendary Stereophonics all appear to collect awards and perform at the ceremony.  The event is designed to give listeners a chance to recognise local community, business and sporting heroes in addition to voting for the musicians who impressed them the most last year.  Award categories range from top teacher, best pub or club, leading tourist attraction, best Fringe performance to the best place to work. At the event, local winners accept their prizes alongside some of the top names in music and entertainment. The highlights can be viewed here: http://www.forthone.com/on-air/radio-forth-awards-2011-highlights-video/

In August we presented our 5th ‘Radio Forth on the Fringe’ which was staged over two nights at the Edinburgh Playhouse. The event featured some of the very best in music, comedy and entertainment, bringing together a slice of all aspects of The Edinburgh Fringe. During the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe we also ran the Sony nominated ‘Front Room Fringe’ – where we take Fringe artists such as Barry Cryer, Patrick Monahan & Chris Difford to name a few to perform in listener’s homes.

We were also delighted in 2012 to become the official media partner for The Edinburgh Marathon & Race For Life.

Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids has been helping local children for 30 years. To date we have raised well over £3,000,000 and have helped over 870,000 children. In the past year we have raised £300,000 to improve the lives of local children who may be disadvantaged through poverty, have helped provide medical equipment to improve the lives of disabled children and have helped with funding for local organisations who work with children.  Campaigns this year have included our on air auction, Christmas Toy Appeal & Family Day.  We are well on target to hit our target of half a million this year and this is done to the efforts from our listeners and our many corporate partners who work tirelessly to raise funds for Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids.

Recent programme and/or news highlights:
See the News section

The Panda’s arrived in Edinburgh & this was marked by our breakfast team who dedicated their annual Christmas song to this national story of waiting for ‘panda babies’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huAmb9fqSlM

The Big Saturday Show welcomed more listeners with the show being sent out across 7 other radio stations – Saturday mornings aren’t quite the same!

The station will end 2012 with the ‘Christmas in Edinburgh’ festival and the famous Hogmanay celebrations. Our events throughout 2012 were enjoyed by thousands of our listeners and we have even more events planned for 2013 – check out the website to see what they are!

Any other issues or areas of interest likely to impact on localness:
None

The Station's Playlist

The Station Format
Forth One plays a variety of music from today and from the past 15 years or so.  We delve slightly further back in time some days, with Grant Stott’s weekday 10 at 10. For further music enquiries, please contact our Head of Music sam.jackson@radioforth.com.

How to complain to the station or to Ofcom: If you have a complaint about something you have heard on Forth One in the first instance you should contact us directly. Our contact details are:

Forth House
Forth Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3LE

Tel: 0131 556 9255

If the complaint or comments are about programming heard on the station, please address them to the Programme Director.

If the complaint or comments are regarding advertising, please address them to the Sales Director.

You can comment on anything you’ve heard on Forth One here.

Details on how to complain directly to Ofcom can be found on the Ofcom website.