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.

Local Bulletins (including Scottish News and Sport at certain times)
Monday – Friday		0000, 0600 to 1900, 2200
Saturday		0700 to 2200
Sunday		0700 to 1200
National Bulletins
Saturday		0600
Sunday		0600

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 10th November 2011. This year we moved venue to the Edinburgh’s iconic Usher Hall; which enabled 1000 listeners to attend the event. The event saw, Matt Cardle, Melanie C, Pixie Lott and The Wanted 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 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 4th ‘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 2011 Edinburgh Fringe we also introduced to our audience ‘Front Room Fringe’ – where we took award winning Fringe artists such as Barry Cryer, Patrick Monahan, Bob Downes to name a few to perform in listener’s homes.
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.
In May of this year we ran a campaign to raise funds for the new Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at The Western in Edinburgh and were delighted to raise £80,000. Our very first outdoor challenge “White Water Rafting” at Aberfeldy raised £10,000 to provide motorised wheelchairs and scooters for disabled children.
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

2011 was another busy year for Forth One.
Boogie, Arlene and Dingo from ‘Boogie in the Morning’ entertained our listener’s with content such as ‘Boogie’s Million Manzillion’. A ‘off the cuff’ idea that grew, went viral & raised over £14 000 for Cash For Kids. They also launched ‘Wotsit’ to the breakfast show and this has quickly become one of our most talked about features.
The 2010 Xmas BITM hit was ‘Baby It’s Morningside’ – who knows what we can expect in December this year!
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!
A parody song by Forth One mid-morning presenter Grant Stott has become an internet hit after he performed it for the first time at the station’s Radio Forth Awards.
The song ‘That’s Fife’ – a skit on Frank Sinatra’s ‘That’s Life’ – stole the show at the ceremony and has notched up more than 65,000 YouTube views
The station will end 2011 with the Jingle Ball and Junior Jingle Ball and we we’re once again a part of the ‘Christmas in Edinburgh’ celebrations and the famous Hogmanay celebrations.
Our events throughout 2011 were enjoyed by thousands of our listeners and we have even more events planned for 2012 – 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

Your main contacts at Radio Forth are:
Station Director		Cathy Kirk
Programme Director		Brian Paige
Sales Director		Craig Lumsdaine
Head of News		Paul Robertson
Deputy News Editor		Max Steele
Sponsorship & Promotions Manager		Mike Scott
Chief Engineer		Douglas Paterson
Events Manager		Richie Jeffrey
Business Analyst Director		Derek Mckinley
Head of Music		Sam Jackson
Website and Interactive Editor		Richard Pacey
Programmes Producer		Moira Millar
Cash for Kids Managers		Ann Marie Miller
PA to the Station Director & Programme Director		Cinnamon Clark