Original 106FM Sold

Aberdeen’s Original 106FM has been sold by Canwest Media to Jonathan Arendt, Richard Johnson and current managing director Iain McKenna.

Under a licence agreement the station will continue to operate under the Original FM brand name.

New Wave Media on the Aquisiations Trail?

Richard Findlay, former chief executive of Scottish Radio Holdings and owner of Dundee’s Wave 102, is expected to buy up five radio stations in Ireland later this week.

Findlay and his son Adam own New Wave Media and are understood to be offering more than 50 million pounds to buy the stations.

The stations are reported to be Ocean FM (Sligo/Donegal), KCLR (Kilkenny/Carlow), Tipp FM (Tipperary), KFM (Kildare) and Mid West Radio (Mayo).

Aberdeen’s Original Up For Sale ?

The north-east’s new radio station Original 106 FM could already be up for sale with owners Canwest Mediaworks reported to be preparing to exit the UK radio industry.

Canwest had previously indicated that “anything is for sale at any time at the right price” but staff at the three Canwest radio station were told on Friday that the company is “considering the sale of its radio operations”.

Virgin Radio Sale Agreed

In 2000 the UK-wide AM station Virgin Radio was bought for £225m by Scottish Media Group.

At the beginning of June, The Times of India media group offered SMG £53m for the station.

SMG have confirmed the sale of the station, an EGM earlier this morning having agreed that the sale will be completed by June 30.

The station will be managed by UK based radio group Absolute Radio.

Awards for Scottish Radio

Scottish radio stations featured in the New York Festivals Radio Broadcasting Awards this year.

Clyde 1’s Superscoreboard football show took gold in the Sports Commentary/Analysis category along with  bronze in the Best Sports Coverage category.

In the Ongoing News Story category, ‘Going for Gold’, Radio Clyde’s coverage of Glasgow’s successful bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games,  took silver.

And in the Music Special category, ‘Made in Scotland’, Clyde 2’s tribute to Scottish Music, received a bronze award.

It was gold also for Forth 2’s Darran Adam who received his award in the Best Ongoing News Story category for the station’s coverage of the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections.