Scotland's Revival FM Goes 24/7
by Jim Brown
September 5, 2006
(AgapePress) - - Scotland now has its first full-time Christian radio station. Due to limitations of broadcasting legislation in Scotland and the United Kingdom, Christian organizations were not able to obtain broadcasting licenses until recently. Revival FM has been broadcasting on a part-time license for ten years in Scotland, but that temporary license was good for up to only two months every year.
But as of Sunday (September 3), the station is broadcasting full time on a five-year community license in the central Scotland areas of North Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire. Listeners can also tap into the broadcasts online at Revival.FM using MP3, Windows Media, or Real Media. Station chairman Ian Dunlop says Revival FM caters to all age groups.
"The programming will be family programming -- it will be music, it will be interesting topics, it will community issues," says Dunlop. "We basically just want to live the Christian life on radio the way that it's lived in Central Scotland today, and by doing that and by sharing the gospel, to find that people's lives are affected and lives are changed."
The station is well prepared for the transition to full time, says Dunlop, and has the resources needed to make that transition a success.
"We've got about 10 years part-time experience with programming, and from that, we've built up a very good team resource of about 40 people," he explains. "And so most of our presenters are going to be coming back with us again on the air. We have programming for the whole family, from young people right through to, shall we say, the seniors."
The motto of Revival FM is "Where Hearing Is Believing."
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
