Wave 102

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Wave 102

Broadcast area	Dundee
Slogan	Playing Only The Songs You Love. You Love It, We Play It.
Frequency	102.0 MHz, DAB, Online
First air date	August 30, 1999
Format	Contemporary
Audience share	6.8% (March 2008, [1])
Owner	New Wave Media
Website	www.wave102.co.uk

Wave 102 is a radio station broadcasting to the city of Dundee in Scotland.

The station broadcasts a mixed music format and broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

When the station first launched it was called Discovery 102, since Dundee is known as the City of Discovery after the RRS Discovery, which is docked there. The Wave 102 brand was born when The Discovery Channel forced it to change the name, claiming that people would mistakenly associate it with the network.

Dundee is also the city where game developers Rockstar North was founded. The developers' Scottish (and Dundonian) roots are shown in various in-jokes/tributes in the game Grand Theft Auto series. One such Dundee specific tribute is where one of the in-game radio stations in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was named Wave 103.

On 15th May 2008 Adam Findlay and his company New Wave Media became the new owners of Wave 102 and has had a very hands on approach in Dundee since.

1 Music
2 News & Sport
3 Presenters
4 Management
5 External links

[edit] Music

Wave 102 describes itself as "Playing Only The Songs You Love", this is reflected in its playlist. As well as playing current chart hits, Wave 102 also plays various 'golden oldies', from ABBA to Take That. The station broadcasts independently from 6am to 7pm Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm on Saturday, and from 6am to 4pm on Sundays. This programming includes themed 80s and 90s music hours, party music on Friday and Saturday evenings, love songs in the late evening, and a mobile phone: phone-in competition from 10pm on Saturday and Sunday evenings. To complement its music programming, Wave 102 also broadcasts a nationally syndicated chart show "Hit 40 UK" on Sunday afternoons from 4pm, with Lucio.