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Radio Wester Ross's programme schedule includes daily breakfast and afternoon shows, plus a range of individual music and local interest programmes, including Gaelic broadcasts and recordings from local events, and shows from several other independent radio presenters. Following its rebranding, the
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The station is staffed by volunteers from across the area, from Gairloch to Ullapool and beyond, as well as from other areas of the Highlands and Islands, broadcasting locally-originated and syndicated shows from its own presenters and partner stations throughout the week. It offers a mix of local
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In April 2008, Two Lochs Radio launched an online "Listen live" streaming service, accessible from a button on its homepage, and also in the Reciva database for Internet radios. In January 2012, Two Lochs Radio joined the large number of UK commercial and BBC stations also available via
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In 2012, Ullapool community station Lochbroom FM started to use Two Lochs Radio as its sustaining service. In 2020, broadcasting regulator Ofcom formally transferred the Lochbroom FM licence to Wester Ross Radio Ltd, the company that also holds the Two Lochs Radio licence.
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Two Lochs Radio was given the "Calor Scottish Business in the Community Business" award in 2004 and is a three-times winner of the Wallace Sword award for the best Gaelic magazine programme produced by a Highland community radio station. It was also nominated for the
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is the community broadcaster for the Gairloch, Loch Ewe and Lochbroom areas of Wester Ross. It broadcasts a music-led service to the communities in Wester Ross, in the
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In April 2024, a rebranding took place with RWR - Radio Wester Ross (or RWR) being used instead of the Two Lochs Radio & Lochbroom FM names.
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The station is owned by the community and is a registered charity operating on a not-for-profit basis.
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news and information as well as music varying widely from the 60s onwards.
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Local news, information, music & programmes that reflet our communities
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which was at one time Britain's smallest commercial radio station.
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0.6 kW & 2 kW (0.7 kW & 0.5 kW in the Lochbroom area)
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and it is the only commercial FM radio station in its area.
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station no longer broadcasts Gaelic programmes produced by
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Wester Ross
Frequency
Format
Community owned
ERP
radiowesterross.scot
Highlands
Scotland
Ullapool
Coigach
Radioplayer
TuneIn
CKJM-FM
Cape Breton
Scottish Countryside Alliance
"Queue forms to become boss of United Kingdom's smallest radio station"
The National
"Radio hook-up takes to the Wester Ross airwaves"
"Programme schedule"
Archived
"Aiseirigh Nan Gaidheal"
the original
"Two Lochs Radio receives Scottish Business in the Community Award at Calor Scottish Community of the Year Awards"
the original
"Gaelic Community Radio Award"
the original
http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2513
Official website
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