The Pirate FM Public File
It is a regulatory requirement that commercial radio stations in the UK hold a Public File.
The information and links below comprise the Public File for Pirate FM, more information about the Public File obligation can be found at www.ofcom.org.uk
Format: Formats are regulatory documents issued to Ofcom licence holders, they outline what is required of each radio station's programming. The format for Pirate FM is available on the Ofcom website, and can be viewed by clicking here http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/amfm/AL136-2.htm
Contact Details:
Address: Pirate FM, Wilson Way, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3XX.
Registered Office: Carn Brea Studios, Barncoose Industrial Estate, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3RQ
Registered in England & Wales: 2552870
Telephone: Main Switcboard 0870 8000 007
Studio/ Competition Line 01209 313900
Managing Director: Beverley Warne Contact Beverley Warne
Programme Director: Bob McCreadie Contact Bob McCreadie
News Editor: Tristan Hunkin Contact Tristan Hunkin
Operational Information :
Transmission: PIRATE FM broadcasts on 102.8 from the Carn Brea transmitter site near Redruth and on 102.2 from Caradon Hill near Liskeard. Pirate FM is also available on DAB, Digital Radio. We cover the whole of Cornwall using these two transmitter sites.
For coverage map please click here. ( Your browser needs to be Java enabled) http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/amfm/AL136-2.htm
Automation: Pirate FM automates some of its programming using computer technology. One such feature is "Doing the Decades", and some automation may occur during significant public holidays.
Local production: All programming on Pirate FM is produced and presented locally from our studios in Redruth apart from Hit 40 UK and Totally 80s which are network shows.
Programme Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Midnight to 6am. Through The Night
6am to 10am. Bob McCreadie for Breakfast with Tristan Hunkin and James Martin, featuring Joke De Jour, Cornwall's Secret Sound and The Mystery Five at Nine.
10am to 2pm. Allen Fleckney featuring War of The Works
2pm to 3pm. Doing The Decades
3pm to 6pm Neil Caddy
6pm to 11pm. James Dundon.
11pm to Midnight. Love at 11 with Kathryn LeJeune
Saturday
Midnight to 6am. Through the Night
6am to 10am. Allen Fleckney's Big Weekend Breakfast
10am to 2pm Dave Gould's Late Breakfast
2pm to 6pm. James Dundon
6pm to Midnight. Kathryn LeJeune
Sunday
Midnight to 6am. Through the Night
6am to 10am. Tony Townsend's Big Weekend Breakfast
10am to 1pm. James Martin
1pm to 4pm. Jim Colvin
4pm to 7pm. Hit 40 UK
7pm - 9pm Totally 80s with Gary King
9pm to midnight. Kirsten Maun
Local Information and Support:
The charitable arm of Pirate FM is called The Pirate Trust, across the year we are running our Cornwall In Need Appeal which raises cash for individuals and organisations in need of financial support in the Duchy.
For more info click here
Regular traffic news and weather reports are on air every hour throughout daytime hours. We also provide our HELPDESK and our WHATS ON GUIDE as additional services to our listeners.
News Contact Information:
News Editor Tristan Hunkin. If you have a news story for us call 0870 8000 002 or e mail news@piratefm.co.uk.
See our latest stories HERE
We have locally generated news bulletins on the hour from 6am to 6pm Monday to Friday with headlines at 6.30am,7.30am, 8.30am and 5.30pm.
At weekends our local bulletins run from 7am to 1pm with headlines at 7.30am and 8.30am. At all other times we carry national and international news on the hour from Sky News.
Ofcom:
Ofcom, the Office of Communications are the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communication industry with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services.
For more info on Ofcom click here
If you have a complaint about something you have heard on Pirate FM in the first instance you should contact our Programme Director, Bob McCreadie. Tel: 0870 800 007 or e mail bob@piratefm.co.uk
You can also complain to Ofcom. To do this either telephone them on 020 7981 3040 or visit the Complaints Area at the Ofcom Website
Music: Cornwall’s Pirate FM plays a melodic adult contemporary style of music which allows us to play “Real Music Variety”. There are categories that represent music from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and the 2000 decades, as well as recurrent songs and the latest ‘playlisted’ music which highlights the best music of today – this takes the form of an A, B and C list with the A list being the highest rotated.
An example of a workday hour follows:
Song 1 Jamiroquai - Canned Heat
Song 2 Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
Song 3 George Benson - Give Me The Night
Song 4 Jack Johnson - Upside Down
Song 5 Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Song 6 Mika - Happy Ending
Song 7 Westlife - Flying Without Wings
Song 8 Simply Red - A New Flame
Song 9 Alicia Keys - No One
Song 10 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Song 11 Whitney Houston - Step By Step
Pirate FM Music Jury: Cornwall’s Pirate FM recognises that playing the favourite music of our listeners is paramount to the success of our Real Music Variety promise. For this reason, we have a Music Jury to which listeners can join via the website www.piratefm.co.uk . On a regular basis, listeners who have signed up will be invited by an email to take part in a music survey where they get to hear the ‘hooks’ of a selection of songs. A member of the jury has the chance to say whether it is a song they love, like or dislike and are also asked as to whether they feel the songs are heard too much or too little. We react accordingly by using this data to decide whether certain songs should be played or not, or whether their rotation should be reduced, or indeed in some instances, increased.
No Repeat 9 to 5 workday: Cornwall’s Pirate FM plays Real Music Variety on a no repeat 9 to 5 Workday. From Monday to Friday between 9 and 5, you won’t hear the same song twice.
