lothians and fife slogan the greatest hits for edinburgh frequency mw 1548 khz dab 12d first air date 22 january 1975 format classic hits adult contemporary music audience share 2.3 % june 2014 rajar owner bauer radio sister stations forth 1 forth 3 webcast live stream website www.forth2.com forth 2 is a scottish radio station owned and operated by bauer radio . forth 2 broadcasts to edinburgh the lothians and fife and forms part of bauer s city 2 network of am stations in scotland and northern england carrying networked programming 24 hours a day alongside local news and information . contents 1 history 2 programming 2.1 news 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit entrance to forth house in forth street edinburgh . forth 2 logo used from 2013 to 2015 . radio forth was launched on 22 january 1975 by current chairman richard findlay . his opening speech included this for the very first time is radio forth . steve hamilton was the first on air presenter hosting the breakfast show . in 1990 forth was forced to create a new station on its am frequency . before this radio forth was broadcast as a single station on both fm and am frequencies . the fm station was renamed radio forth rfm with donny hughes broadcasting the first breakfast show from the newly revamped studio f in forth house . the station became known as forth fm in 1993 . the new am station became max am which was later renamed forth am to match its sister station . in 2000 both stations were relaunched as 97.3 forth one and 1548 forth2 . many changes occurred at this time including new presenters and a new jingles package . forth 2 was redesigned as an adult contemporary music station while forth one continued to play top 40 songs for the 35s and under . radio forth was owned by scottish radio holdings until 23 june 2005 when british media group emap took over . in january 2008 emap radio was sold to bauer . the radio division was renamed bauer radio . a new programming schedule was introduced on monday 15 june 2009 consisting mostly of programming simulcast with bauer s other am stations in scotland clyde 2 from glasgow northsound 2 from aberdeen tay 2 from dundee and west sound am from ayr . forth 2 local programming was then restricted to breakfast shows news bulletins and some specialist programming although the station also produced networked output on weekday evenings and sunday mornings . on 3 june 2013 station owners bauer radio announced forth 2 would axe its remaining local programming with the weekday breakfast show presented by bob malcolm replaced with a networked show hosted by robin galloway from monday 1 july 2013 across bauer s network of am stations in scotland . 1 the station became part of the bauer city 2 network on monday 5 january 2015 . programming edit the majority of forth 2 s programming is taken from the bauer city 2 network although there are separate scottish shows at peak times including weekday breakfast and drive time . 2 forth 2 produces some of the network s output while other programming originates from clyde 2 in clydebank key 2 in manchester metro radio 2 in newcastle tay 2 in dundee and bauer s headquarters at golden square soho . news edit forth 2 broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays from 9am to 1pm on saturdays and from 9am to 12pm on sundays . headlines are broadcast on the half hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows alongside sport and traffic bulletins . national bulletins from sky news radio are carried overnight with bespoke networked scottish bulletins at weekends produced from radio clyde s newsroom in clydebank . see also edit radio forth forth 1 references edit galloway goes national at bauer scotland radio today 3 june 2013 schedule released for bauer city 2 stations radiotoday 19 december 2014 external links edit official website coordinates 55 57 28 n 3 11 12 w 55.95778 n 3.18667 w 55.95778 ; 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