Media in Aberdeen

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Media in Aberdeen have long been published or broadcast. The city and surrounding area's main newspaper the Press and Journal has been made and printed in the city since 1748 making it Scotland's oldest newspaper.

The city has a number of regional radio stations and has local production facilities for the BBC and ITV.

Aberdeen is famous for the entertainers of Scotland The What.

1 Newspaper
2 Television
3 Local radio
4 References

[edit] Newspaper

The main newspapers of Aberdeen are the daily Press and Journal and the Evening Express, both printed six days a week by Aberdeen Journals. There is also a job and second-hand advertising paper, Scot-Ads and two free newspapers Aberdeen Citizen and Aberdeen Independent.

[edit] Television

For over 45 years, Aberdeen was home to an ITV franchise, Grampian Television. Since a takeover by the Scottish Media Group in 2000, Grampian's identity and local programming were gradually depleted until the present situation, where Grampian's base in the city's Tullos area is now a headquarters for the STV brand, the new name for the Central and Northern Scotland ITV franchises (and formerly for the central franchise alone).^[1] The local news programme North Tonight is still produced from Aberdeen.

BBC Scotland also have a base in Aberdeen's Beechgrove area. BBC Aberdeen is most known for Tern TV's production of the Beechgrove Garden television and BBC radio programmes.^[2]

[edit] Local radio

Aberdeen has two local commercial radio stations. Original 106 on 106.8(FM) or 106.3(FM) owned by Canwest it Launched on the 28th of October 2007.It offers a choice of adult alternative music with localy generated news bullitens. The other is Northsound Radio, which has two stations, Northsound One (on FM) and Northsound Two (on AM).

The Station House Media Unit (based at Station House, a partially National Lottery-funded community project) runs a radio station broadcasting with a five-year community license on 99.8 Mhz FM, known as SHMU FM.^[3] Prior to obtaining the FM license, the station was available on the internet.

There is also a regional radio station called NECR FM, "North-East Community Radio FM".

From time to time the Aberdeen University Students' Association has obtained a Restricted Service License (RSL) for temporary FM radio broadcasts; its station was first known as Slick FM but this is subject to change.

In addition, a multi-ethnic community organisation Multi-ethnic Aberdeen Ltd. runs Multi-ethnic FM (MEFM) on an annual basis using an RSL and is due to apply for a permanent license.^{[citation needed]} At other times, internet "broadcasts" are employed.