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Шаблон:Use Hiberno-English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox radio station Highland Radio is the local radio service for the County Donegal (North) franchise, operating under a licence from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI).

The station began broadcasting on 15 March 1990, and is currently franchised until 2024.

Headquartered at the Mountain Top in Letterkenny, Highland broadcasts throughout a large swathe of Ulster (especially West Ulster), with it being received in the nearby city of Derry and in much of the rest of County Londonderry, as well as in large parts of County Tyrone and County Fermanagh, and in parts of County Antrim. It has the highest market share of any local station within the Republic of Ireland.

History

Highland began broadcasting on 15 March 1990.

On 31 May 2005, it was announced that the station was to be purchased by Scottish Radio Holdings for €7 million. However, SRH itself was acquired by Emap 21 days later. The deal was cleared by both the BCI and the Irish Competition Authority. Emap's sole changes to the station were increasing the bandwidth of their web streams from 20 kbit/s to 128 kbit/s, with no format or presenter changes.

Denis O'Brien's Communicorp was the highest bidder for Emap's Irish operations when that company decided to sell its radio stations, buying FM104, Highland Radio and Today FM on 14 July 2007. In October 2007, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) approved Communicorp's proposed takeover of Today FM and Highland Radio, but not FM104. The deal was completed by January 2008. Due to a Competition Authority decision, Communicorp was required to sell-on FM104, which it did (to UTV Media) immediately upon its acquisition. O'Brien offloaded Highland Radio in mid-2008.

Orangold, a company owned by the Rabbitt family, completed the purchase of Highland Radio from Denis O'Brien's Communicorp Group in July 2008. Gerry Rabbitt is a founder shareholder of Galway Bay FM and was managing director of Galway Bay FM for 10 years.

On 12 August 2012, Highland Radio received an international exclusive interview with Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt live on air from the Summer Olympics in Stratford in London.

Charlie Collins quit as General Manager in June 2013. Collins was Head of Sport there too. Oisin Kelly succeeded Collins as Head of Sport the next day.

Pio McCann, who died in October 2020, was internationally recognised for his interviews with American country music figures, including Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, Charley Pride and Garth Brooks, and, notably, gave Daniel O'Donnell his first interview. He was part of the evening shcedule.Шаблон:Cn

Highland Radio News and Sport

The Highland Radio News team is headed by Greg Hughes and includes Donal Kavanagh, Michaela Clarke, Emma Ryan and Daniel Brennan.

Highland Radio News airs their own bulletins Mondays to Fridays on the hour from 7.00am until 7.00pm. The news service gives extensive coverage of local news and events from across the City of Derry and Counties Donegal, Londonderry, and Tyrone. There are currently three main extended news bulletins Mondays to Fridays at 8.30am, 1.00pm and 5.00pm. From 8.00pm until 12-midnight, Highland Radio airs hourly live news bulletins provided by Newstalk in Dublin.

Highland Radio News has a limited provision of local news over the weekend. Saturdays have local bulletins on the hour from 10.00am until 2.00pm. Newstalk provides news bulletins at 8.00am, 9.00am and then on the hour from 3.00pm until 12-midnight. On Sundays, Highland Radio provides local news from 1.00pm -6.00pm. Newstalk provides the rest of Sundays news output on the station on the hour from 8.00am until 12-midnight.

Highland Radio gives extensive coverage to all the main sporting events held in County Donegal, County Londonderry, and County Tyrone, as well as in the city of Derry. The station broadcasts the results of all major Irish League fixtures played in Northern Ireland, in addition to broadcasting the results of all major League of Ireland fixtures played in the Republic of Ireland.

During Christmas, Easter and Bank Holidays, Newstalk provide the only news bulletins on the hour.

Programming

Daytime

Source:

Time	Monday–Friday
06:30	The Naughty Alarm Clock – Lee Gooch
08:00
09:00	The 9 til Noon Show with Greg Hughes (until 12:00)
10:00	Morning News
10:05	Obituaries
11:00
12:00	Around the Northwest with John Breslin (until 14:30)
13:00	Lunchtime News, Sport & Obituaries (until 13.30)
14:00
14:30	The Jivetime with David James
16.00
17.00	Main Evening News, Sport & Obituaries
17:30	Power Hour Plus with Ivan Boreland (until 19:00)

Evening

Source:

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
19:05	DL Debate, with Brendan Devenney	The Rosemary Herraghty Country Show	Ruaille Buaille le Colm Ferriter	The Score with Oisin Kelly Centre Stage with Jimmy Stafford	Power Hour Plus' with Ivan Boreland
20.05	Monday Night Sessions with Paul McDevitt & Jimmy Stafford		"Documentaries"		Rock N Hits with Marty Friel
21:00		Music of the Night with Bernard Harper	The Country Show with Tommy Rosney
22:00	Solid Gold with Aidan Murphy
23:00				Country Show with Bernard Harper	Country Show with Tommy Rosney
00:00
01:00	The Nine til Noon Show (repeat)	The Nine til Noon Show (repeat)	The Nine til Noon Show (repeat)	The Nine til Noon Show (repeat)	The Nine til Noon Show (repeat)
03:00

Weekend

Source:

Time	Saturday	Sunday
07:00	Saturday Sunrise with Canice Wilson
08:00		The Aidan Murphy Show
09:00
10:00	News & Obituary Notices
10:15	Rewind with Rory Farrell
11:00
12:00	The Saturday Shuffle with Paul McDevitt	Afternoon Classics with Bernard Harper
13:00
14:00	News, Sport & Obituary Notices	The Weekend Mix with Kevin Furey & Sunday Sport
15:00	The Weekend Mix with Kevin Furey & Saturday Sport
16:00
17:00
18:00	News & Obituary Notices	News & Obituary Notices
18:15	Unchained Melodies with Frank Galligan	Business Matters with Ciaran O'Donnell
19:00		Jean Curran's 'Private Collection'
20:00	Getting Ready to Go Out with Keith Fletcher
21:00		Blas na nGael le Roise Ní hOireactaigh
22:00	Electric beats with Joe Deckz
23:00		The Country Show with Tommy Rosney
00:00
01:00

People

Highland Radio employs 21 full-time and 40 part-time employees.

Presenters

Highland Radio News Team: Greg Hughes, Donal Kavanagh, Michaela Clarke, Emma Ryan. Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-3

Daytime

• Lee Gooch
• Greg Hughes
• John Breslin
• David James
• Ivan Boreland

Evening

• Tommy Rosney
• Marty Friel
• Aidan Murphy
• Bernard Harper
• Paul McDevitt
• Rosemary Herraghty
• Colm Ferriter
• Oisin Kelly
• Brendan Devenney

Weekend

• Canice Wilson
• Rory Farrell
• Paul McDevitt
• Kevin Furey
• Frank Galligan
• Keith Fletcher
• Joe Deckz
• Aidan Murphy
• Bernard Harper
• Ciaran O'Donnell
• Jean Curran
• Róise Ní hOireachtaigh

See also

• Declan Harvey

External links

• Official website
• BCI licence details
• JNLR listenersip summary
• Scottish to buy Highland Radio for €7m – RTÉ article, from 2005