BBC Radio 1 (97-99FM) is a national radio station with a focus on modern popular music and chart hits. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie. Radio 1 covers festivals, interviews artists, and reaches a national audience of younger listeners (target audience 15-29).

Background and Format: BBC 6 Music aims to provide alternative music and culture from the 1960s to the present day onwards to a national audience, available on DAB Digital Radio and Online.    Programme Maker/Production Company: BBC Target Audience: Listeners aged between 25 and 44.  Circulation: Source: RAJAR for period ending March 2020. Top tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. To submit music, send CDs to Jeff Smith at 6 Music, BBC Western House, 99 Great Portland Street, London W1W 7NY Some of the presenters of BBC 6 run a blog called Fresh on the Net: www.freshonthenet.co.uk where music can be submitted. The station has a Twitter feed called 6 Music Bot which details which tracks have just been played. The account is: www.twitter.com/BBC6MusicBot Awards: 2017 - ARIAS, Best On-Air Promotion: The 6Music Festival in Glasgow (gold)  2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Creative Innovation: Now Playing @6Music (silver) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Feature or Documentary: Adam Buxton on David Bowie (silver) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Station Imaging (nominated) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Promotional Campaign: The Sound of Cinema on 6 Music (silver) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Feature or Documentary, 6 Music Celebrates: 50 Years of the Cassette (nominated) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Station Imaging (nominated) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Programme, Lauren Laverne (nominated) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Programme, Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service (nominated) 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Award, Music Broadcaster of the Year, Tom Service (Nominated) 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Award, Music Broadcaster of the Year, Mark Radcliffe (Nominated) 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Entertainment Programme (SilverAward), Adam & Joe 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, UK Station of the Year (GoldAward) Alerts: Gorkana Alert: Monday 14 October 2013 BBC Radio 6 Music has announced it will be making a few changes to the station’s Autumn weekend schedule. From 2 November Huey Morgan will move from Sunday afternoon to Saturday mornings at 10am-1pm, taking over from Edith Bowman whose series will come to an end. Sunday mornings will still be hosted by Cerys Matthews but her show is being extended by 1 hour, seeing the show run from 10am-1pm. The Sunday Special slot will move to 1pm. The hour long show includes one-off guest playlists and documentaries. Guy Garvey’s show will be moving from Sunday 10pm to the earlier time of 2pm. Don Letts will be moving to fill Guy’s show at 10pm and will be running through to 12am. Lauren Laverne will be presenting 6 music live from Monday 14 to Friday 18 October, from Maida Vale at 10am-1pm. Full details of the schedule change at BBC Radio 6 Music can be viewed here  Media Alerts UK Consumer Alert: Monday 13th August 2018 BBC Radio 6 Music has announced c

Background and Format: BBC Scotland is a regional radio station covering  news, sport, music, the arts, comedy, drama, history and lifestyle and traffic updates. Programme Maker / Production Company: BBC Target Audience: Listeners age 35+. It has an approximate 50/50 split of male/female listeners during breakfast and drive time and in the daytime this changes to 40% male and 60% female. Circulation: Source: RAJAR for period ending March 2020. Tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions. The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK outlets. Awards: 2016 - ARIAS, Best National Speech Breakfast Show: Good Morning Scotland (nominated) 2015 - SJA Sports Journalism Awards, Radio Sport Documentary: Ken Buchanan (nominated) 2014 - Mind Media Awards, Radio: The truth behind bipolar: Brainwaves (nominated) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Feature or Documentary: Advice from the Edge of Life (nominated) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Speech Programme: The Digital Human (silver) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Drama, The Grapes of Wrath (nominated) 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Specialist Music Programme, Another Country With Ricky Ross (Bronze) Alerts: Gorkana Alert: Thursday 21 May 2015 Edith Bowman is set to host The Quay Sessions, a new weekly music show for BBC Radio Scotland from 4 June. Airing every Thursday between 9.00 -11.00pm, the show will feature interviews and music performances in BBC Scotland’s Pacific Quay reception. The programme debuts as part of BBC Scotland’s pop-up music festival, BBC Music at the Quay between 4-8 June. The music festival has BBC Music Day on Friday 5 June at the heart of its celebrations - a nationwide celebration of music. Contact details to follow. Gorkana Alert: Thursday 18 December 2014 Changes have been announced at BBC Radio Scotland to bring more news, debate and analysis into its daytime output. Full details of the changes can be viewed here. Press enquiries should be directed to Roy Templeton at roy.templeton@bbc.co.uk Gorkana Consumer Alert: Monday 30th July 2007 BBC Radio Scotland have recently moved offices. The new offices can be found at 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA. The new switchboard number for the station is +44 (0)141 422 6000. Gorkana Consumer Alert: Thursday 22 June 2006  BBC Radio Scotland is undergoing major changes in the line-up of its presenters on its news and current affairs programmes; Former Scottish Television presenter Shereen Nanjiani will present the lunchtime programme Scotland Live every Friday, starting 1 August. BBC Radio Scotland's flagship programme - Good Morning Scotland (GMS) - longstanding presenters, Derek Bateman and Mhairi Stuart, are moving to different programmes. Derek Bateman will host the political programme Scotland at Ten on three weekday evenings and Mhairi Stuart will switch to presenting Scotland Live four days a we

BBC Radio 1Xtra aims to provide news, hip-hop, upcoming musical talent, R&B and urban music to a national audience, available on DAB, BBC iPlayer and Sky channel 701.  Top Tips for PRs: BBC Radio 1Xtra does not have an email address for general enquiries. Many of the shows are produced independently so PR enquiries are best directed to the individual programmes.

Background and Format: Launched in 1999, Digital Spy is a website overseen by Hearst and is aimed at readers interested in entertainment, showbusiness, TV, films and soaps. Covers latest news, British soaps, reality TV, US TV, showbusiness, technology, gaming and comicbooks. For more information about advertising rates, the team can be reached here. Monthly Unique Users: Source: Publisher Awards: 2019 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Best Online Brand: Consumer (nominated)  2019 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Digital Editorial Team of the Year: Consumer (highly commended)  2019 - PPA Awards, Team Of The Year: Editorial Team (nominated) 2018 - PPA Digital Awards, Website of the Year (nominated)  2018 - PPA Digital Awards, Digital Content Team of the Year (winner)  2017 - PPA Digital Awards, Digital Content Team Of The Year (winner) 2015 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Website - Consumer (nominated) 2015 - AOP Digital Publishing Awards, Editorial Team - Consumer (nominated) 2014 - Online Media Awards, Best Site for News-Led Journalism (nominated) 2013 - Games Media Awards, Coverage by a Mainstream Website (winner) 2012 - Games Media Awards, Coverage by a Mainstream Website (winner) 2012 - AOP Awards, Website - Consumer (highly commended) 2012 - AOP Awards, Editorial Team - Consumer (nominee) 2012 - The PPA Awards, Digital Product of the Year (Consumer) (nominee) Gorkana meets...Julian Linley, Digital Spy, February 2016 The write up can be found here. Alerts: Gorkana UK Consumer Alert: Thursday 25th August 2016 Digital Spy has moved offices. The new address is 72 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 9EP. All phone numbers remain the same. For more information, contact the PR team at media@hearst.co.uk Gorkana Alert: Thursday 8 December 2011 Digital Spy has moved offices to a new address in the Hearst Magazine UK building at 33 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 0DQ. The team can now be reached on +44 (0)20 7312 3800. Gorkana Alert: Thursday 1 September 2011 Entertainment news site Digital Spy is launching a new Tech section for its 11 million monthly unique users. The new channel will cover technology and gadgets with a focus on hardware related to entertainment e.g. TV, mobiles, tablets, games consoles and accessories, music and movie players etc. The section will also cover industry news and will be pulling together special Christmas features from now on. Enquires can be directed to the tech team, who can be reached at tech.group@digitalspy.co.uk Gorkana Alert: Thursday 18 August 2011 News and entertainment website Digital Spy has now launched with a new design. The home page and each of the section pages is more concise with the latest stories from each section clearly listed and the amount of comments on each article displayed by the side of the listing. There is also more emphasis on videos, interviews and pictures with a clear section for each making it easier for users to navigate. For more information Editor David Moynihan can be reached on +44