KCLR 96FM
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KCLR 96FM is an Irish
Ireland
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 radio station
Radio station
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 which broadcasts to Carlow
Carlow
Carlow is the county town of County Carlow in Ireland. It is situated in the south-east of Ireland, 84 km from Dublin. County Carlow is the second smallest county in Ireland by area, however Carlow Town is the 14th largest urban area in Ireland by population according to the 2006 census. The...

 and Kilkenny
Kilkenny
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 in Ireland
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. It began broadcasting in May 2004. www.bci.ie

The station's slogan "The Heart of Carlow Kilkenny" is taken from the idea that the shape of the two counties, as they appear on maps, form the shape of a heart.

More recently KCLR96fm is adopting the additional " Your Life, Your Music, Your Station !". This as part of its revamped imaging.
www.kclr96fm.com

Schedule

On The Record airs between 10:00 and 12:00. It's presented by Sue Nunn, who joined the station from Radio Kilkenny and is KCLR's Head of News, Current Affairs and Community Programming. The news division also produce Afternoon Live, presented by Tomm Dowling. This broadcatsts between 13:15 and 15:00. News is available on the hour, and is produced in-house during the daytime. Off-peak news bulletins are taken from [Independent Network News INN].

The Community Diary is a service provided free-of-charge to groups who wish to advertise the service but might have no other means to do so.

The station has the ability to offer separate programming to each county when needed. At 6pm each evening, local news is available to each county- "Carlow Live" and "Kilkenny Live" The frequencies 96.0 96.6 [Kilkenny] and 96.9 [Carlow] are often "split" at the weekends to offer coverage of local sporting events.

Between 20:00 and 22:00 on weekdays, the station has a varied schedule which aims to meet the needs of the different communities and special interests around the two counties. Between 21:00 and 22:00 on Tuesday evenings, Ade Oke and his son, Ayo Oke present The Rainbow, a multi-cultural programme. In 2005, the programme won the Broadcast Media Award at the MAMA Awards http://www.unison.ie/carlow_people/stories.php3?ca=38&si=1708859&issue_id=14786.

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