It doesn’t seem like twelve months have passed since our second broadcast of events from the world famous Celtic Connection held in Glasgow and brought to us by our friends in the Studio across the water Celtic Music Radio.

Once again for the third year we shall  be  broadcasting this years event starting at 4.00pm Thursday 19^th January from the Exhibition Hall of The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for the launch and Torchlight Parade including meeting Torch-lighters followed by the Lord Provost’s formal opening of Celtic Connections 2012.      

 We shall of course be broadcasting the Famous  Danny Kyle Open Stage live daily at 5.00pm compered by Danny’s close friend CMR presenter Liz Clark and Commentary from Bill Morris and Ken Macdonald.. This event once again will be broadcast live from the Exhibition Hall of The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and is free to attend so be sure if you do manage to  get along do go and say hello at the Celtic Music Radio Studio situated to the left  of the stage.

Most days live broadcast will start late morning through to early evening and besides the best of Celtic music and information as to what is happening presenters from Celtic Music Radio and our own Ian Wilson and Victor will be interviewing artist who shall be appearing at the event and some of the interesting people visiting.

Be sure to keep up with our Programme Schedules for all our broadcast times and to keep up todate with Fiona and her reporting team out and about at Celtic Connetions check out :                                                                            http://www.dunooncommunityradio.org/programme-info/celtic-connections/ 

For full details of all events from Celtic Connections 2012  go to http://www.celticconnections.com/2012   

and for full Celtic Music Radio Broadcast details  http://www.celticmusicradio.net/category/festivals/celtic-connections/

Scotland’s Community Radio Network of which Dunoon Community Radio is a part of has been nominated in this year’s Scottish Press Awards.

The SCBN programme The Leaders made and broadcast on Dunoon Community Radio during the Scottish election campaign, has been nominated in this year’s Scottish Press Awards

The ground-breaking network programme, The Leaders, is being judged in the digital product of the year section.

The programme was produced and presented by Charles Fletcher of Caledonia Media for the network.

The winners will be announced in April

You can next hear Charles again here on DCR this Saturday 21^st January at 7.00am when he introduces   this weeks  broadcast of The Week in Holyrood the Scottish Parliament First Minister’s Questions

Cowal Highland Gathering have been nominated for a prestige Noea Award to be announced at

the NOEA Awards Dinner to be held at the Birmingham International Airport Hotel on Thursday 22nd March.

The Cowal Highland Gathering are up against the Royal Highland Show in their category

CONGRATULATION TO MALCOLM AND ALL WHO MAKE COWAL HIGHLAND GATHERING THE WORLDWIDE SUCCESS IT IS

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Cowal Highland Gathering have released the following press release………………………………….  Continue Reading »

Midnight till 0neAM

MIDNIGHT ON A SUNDAY WITH  //MONO2STEREO//

Dcr97.4fm is proud to bring to you another of Dunoon’s Favourite DJ Son’s the ever popular         DJ CHUBBA

Listen as Dj Chubba introduces you to his world of Full On music as heard in Clubland around Scotland including right here in Dunoon

His new radio show Mono2Stereo will be showcasing DJs from many different genres, from funky house to techno and every show will contain two different mixes.

Hear again Argyll & Bute Council Leader, Dick Walsh’s comments and updates on the recent STORMS, the latest on the FERRIES the forthcoming CHORD event and why we should go along and some really exciting news of future events taking place here in Dunoon 2012 including MOD 2012

Tonight Argyll & Bute Council Leader, Dick Walsh will be popping into the (ever decreasing ) Corridor to Join  Victor on the LLLVLBS to bring us all up to date with current events – and it has certainly been a busy time here in Argyll & Bute with more comments on the Ferries being aired –the recent weather conditions and it’s aftermath and not just falling trees , but hopefully the councilor will as always have some positive comments to make  and updates on the CHORD project and MOD 2012

As we wake up to another day of uncertainty as to whether today will bring further power disruption or disruption through the weather conditions please contact us with any information you feel would be useful to other folk so that we may pass it on over the radio and through Social Networking such as face book.  You can contact us by phone or text on 07833667739

Let’s give a big thank you to all the Argyll & Bute Council workers and their support workers and to all the folk working to keep all we “take for granted” on a daily basis functioning

Sorry if you are trying to listen to us, unfortunately Dunoon has been hit with another power failure. With reports that there is not a light to be seen from Rothesay right along the coast until Helensburgh.  Hopefully we will be back with you shortly!

BEAT GENERATION GOES “BIG” with DJ Will Jukes

Due to listener demand for more from DJ Will Jukes as of this Sunday 8th January 2012 the show will now be extended by one hour and will start each week at the earlier time of 10.00PM.

DJ Will has announced on his presenter page that this extra hour will now allow him to feature many more one hour guest mixes and he will start immediately with a one hour guest mix featuring Top DJ, the Legend that is Jon Mancini who recently headlined at a sell out concert here  in Dunoon

For more detail and information check out DJ Wills Presenter Page

http://www.dunooncommunityradio.org/programme-info/presenters/willie-jukes/

A VERY HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR LISTENERS

New Year Wishes

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Merry Christmas to everyone at DCR and to all the Listeners xxx

It is rumoured that a Red Carpet will greet the cast the crew and invited guest at Monday’s  Premier at Dunoon’s Studio Cinema of the Dunoon Grammer School film “Nursery Crhymes”

Among the distinguish guest will be David Hayman the Scottish film and television actor and director, among other things  known for his role as DCS Mike Walker in ITV drama Trial and Retribution.

As is the custom  in the film industry prior to a film release comes the hype when actors from the movie do the media rounds to promote the film and it was with great pleasure that Victor welcomed members of the cast to the DCR Corridor Studio of the fabulous Penthouse Suite of The Argyll Business Centre.

Laura Gray the Director and writer accompanied by Actors Yasmine Dalton and Alan Ly told how the movie was made to highlight issues that face some young people not only here in Cowal but all over and tackles head-on issues regarding Alcohol, Drugs and Violence Continue Reading »

8.00AM – 10.00 – Edmund McKay Sunday Breakfast Meets G-MAN
Edmund presents the Sunday breakfast programme from the CMR studio with a look at the stories making the headlines in the Sunday newspapers and weather forecast on the hour. Edmund eases you through the first hour then at nine o clock, well you can’t keep snoozing all day especially with so much good music to play.                 

This morning, Edmund has a special early guest DCR 97.4FM favourite  former Red Hot Chilli Piper Gregor ‘G Man’ James who will be in the studio with Edmund to talk about his new group Bags of Rock and their new debut album “The Next Level”.

Email:  studio@celticmusicradio.net or edmund.mckay@celticmusicradio.net

Its  Mellow Mellow with Joe Brannigan starting off the weekend at 9.00am followed by Joseph (Joe Mac) at 10.00am to take us through till 2.00pm

Joe Mac will be asking you to wrap your ears around the sound of DCR97.4FM Live from the Corridor studio in Dunoon.

Whatever you do don’t leave our radio for long so you don’t miss Joe Mac broadcasting On 97.4 FM in Cowal and surrounding areas, with lots of information local to the area and “across the clyde”. You’ll also get us in certain areas of Inverclyde on FM, and of course – PLANETWIDE, streaming on the internet

In order to continue bringing you the best quality sound we intend to carry out maintenance and equipment upgrade at our transmitter site Friday 2^nd December

Unfortunately this will effect our FM output from the transmitter, we anticipate being without our usual 97.4fm  FM signal from 11.00am to 2.00pm.                                                                                                We will of course continue broadcasting on the Internet and give regular updates of the situation.

Glad to say we are back broadcasting loud and clear on 97.4FM

Thank you for joining us in our marathon Birthday Celebration and a really big thank you for all  your input during the broadcast we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did broadcasting.

It has been a pleasure to present our programmes to you over the last two years and we very much look forward to presenting new programmes especially further day time programmes  very shortly.

On behalve of all the volunteers here at Dunoon Community Radio We thank you for you’re on going support.

FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (It can only happen on Community Radio) EVERY ONE IS WELCOME TO STAY TO SEE US ENTER OUR THIRD YEAR OF BROADCASTING IN THE CAPABLE HANDS OF OUR NEWEST DCR VOLUNTEER……DJ CRAIG McKITTRICK …..

11.00pm—1.00AM - DJ CRAIG McKITTRICK  with  BEAT66

To end our Second Birthday and to take us into our third year  DJ Craig will broadcast live from the Original Corridor Studio in the Studios of DCR at the Argyll Business Centre

So far like DJ DAVIE, DJ CRAIG is keeping his Birthday Present Show a surprise but he has said that he will after midnight for The First Christmas Programme of 2011 be keeping in mind what December is all about

And just in case you are now in a really Christmasie mood and not to tired

1.00AM – 2.00 AM NORIE B PRESENTS THE SECOND CHRISTMAS SHOW OF 2011

Well it only comes just once a year and we love Christmas here on DCR so here is a wee taster of what you can expect, we’ve been waiting since January for this.

THURSDAY 1sT DECEMBER 2011

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY DCR 97.4FM

CHECK OUT OUR FULL DAYS BIRTHDAY PROGRAMMES  http://www.dunooncommunityradio.org/programme-info/and/

Please Join us as we Celebrate with a full 24hours plus of entertainment take part by text or E-mail we also hope to have a telephone link

Help us Celebrate by leaving a Birthday Greeting  or a dedication or for just a  wee mention which we will read out on  “Air” during our Birthday Broadcast just click comments

LET THE FESTIVITIES  BEGIN