broadcaster founded 1989 headquarters longford republic of ireland areas served longford leitrim and roscommon website shannonside fm northern sound type radio broadcaster founded 1989 headquarters longford republic of ireland website northern sound shannonside northern sound also known as shannonside fm is a dual radio franchise which operates across counties cavan monaghan northern sound radio leitrim longford and roscommon shannonside fm in ireland . it has a 46.9 % market share . 1 contents 1 history 2 shows 3 premises 4 frequencies 5 sister station 6 references history edit shannonside fm and northern sound radio were established in 1989 as separate radio stations . in 1995 both licences and franchise areas were combined to create the first regional station in ireland . in 2005 shannonside northern sound was purchased by radio kerry holdings . 2 shows edit the two stations have their own different schedules 7am 7pm weekdays with the exception of the joe finnegan show 9am 11am at other times programmes are networked across both stations . 2 premises edit the franchise has 3 local bases longford headquarters monaghan studios offices and broadcasting school opened in october 2008 cavan studio and sales office opened in july 2007 2 frequencies edit northern sound radio is broadcast on 96.3 mhz from monaghan 94.8 mhz from cavan and 97.5 mhz from carrickmacross . 3 shannonside fm is broadcast on 104.1 mhz longford roscommon 97.2 mhz south leitrim 95.7 mhz boyle 104.6 mhz west roscommon . 4 sister station edit radio kerry references edit newsletter feb 2010 . archived from the original on 2012 03 05 . a b c 1 dead link free radio stations free internet radio online music live web radio northern sound 96.8 fm irish adult contemporary music in monaghan about us shannonside longford roscommon and south leitrim retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title shannonside northern sound & oldid 739100387 categories radio stations in the republic of irelandhidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from november 2013use dmy dates from april 2014use irish english from april 2014all wikipedia articles written in irish englishireland articles missing geocoordinate dataall articles needing coordinates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages gaeilge edit links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 19 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view