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Celtica Radio International is an independent commercial radio station which uses the Internet as its transmission platform broadcasting in both MP3 and RealMedia formats. The station has its head office based in Bridgend, Wales, and provides a broad mix of programming available worldwide in live, on-demand and downloadable formats. Celtica Radio started broadcasting on 21 June 2000, and is still in the same ownership. In the year 2012 Celtica Radio logged over one and three-quarter million listeners, and achieved over 54,000 podcast downloads. Since November 2012, around 300,000 listeners a month tune into Celtica Radio. On April 23, 2011, the station started broadcasting through the transmitters of Radio Hafren on 756 kHz Medium Wave, until February 10th 2015 when Radio Hafren closed. The broadcasts were for two hours per night, every night from Midnight to 2AM local time. Distance or DX listeners who provided a reception report were sent by return of post a QSL card. Radio Hafren began FM broadcasts on 102.1 MHz FM at 10:21 on Monday Morning, August 11, 2014. Celtica Radio programs on that frequency started at Midnight on Tuesday the 12th. ==History== The Celtica Radio story goes back to 1979 when a small group of people in the Bridgend area of South Wales wanted to set up their own wholly independent radio station. Over the following eighteen years the evolution of the group continued, with the establishment of two hospital radio stations in Bridgend and Neath, the re-launch of broadcasting at Swansea University, and two trial broadcasts in 1997 and 1998, culminating in a successful campaign to persuade the licensing authorities that the Bridgend region and community deserved its own local radio station. Leading this group of committed local radio enthusiasts and professionals was Bill Everatt. The UK Radio Authority (which has now been replaced by OfCom) did not give that group the chance of broadcasting to their home area. This decision had the effect of stiffening the resolve of those who had been denied this local radio station licence, and led to David A Cook who had also worked on the campaign, providing the initial financial investment to set up Celtica Radio and its parent company AlBilCo MediaComm.〔 Initially, the business structure was as an unincorporated association, but in 2003, both Celtica Radio and AlBilCo MediaComm became registered limited companies. The station has now expanded and the original group of broadcasters has been joined by others from other parts of the UK and Europe. From 2005 to 2008, John Grierson, the founder and first general manager of Manx Radio, the Isle of Mans national commercial radio station, also broadcast with and advised the group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celtica Radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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