Contact & Advertise
On airThe desk phone rings straight into the live room, so if the song you want is in the crates we will usually get it on within the hour. Everything else, pitches, advertising, sponsorship, community shout-outs, comes to the same inbox and gets read by a person in Leith.
One form for the lot. Tell us which it is and we will come back inside two working days. Advertising enquiries get the rate card attached.
We are on the second floor of the old bonded mill, buzzer marked Northlight. Visitors are welcome when the desk is staffed, and there is a loading bay round the back for band gear.
Northlight is run by twelve volunteers and two paid staff. That means we answer honestly and quickly, and we say no when a slot is full rather than leaving you waiting.
Call or text the desk between 7pm and midnight and the presenter on shift will see it come up on screen. Give us the artist, the track and who it is for. Anything pressed in Scotland in the last year is almost certainly already in the rack.
Ring 0131 496 0188Send a fifteen minute demo, a sentence on the idea and the slot you have in mind. We review pitches at the end of every month and hold open studio nights twice a year for people who have never touched a fader. No broadcast experience needed, just something worth an hour of somebody's evening.
studio@northlightradio.scotThirty and sixty second spots across breakfast, drivetime and the late show. Scripting and voicing are done here in the studio at no extra cost, and we keep a cap on the number of advertisers per hour so your spot is not buried in a block of six. Local traders, venues and festivals get a standing discount.
Ask for the rate cardPut your name on a full show, the travel bulletin or one of our outside broadcasts from a festival field. Sponsors get a top and tail credit in every episode, a mention on the show page and a share of the session recordings for their own channels. Three month minimum so listeners actually learn who you are.
Browse the scheduleThe desk is staffed
Northlight Radio has been taking calls from the same room in Leith since 2011. Requests, corrections, complaints about the folk hour, advertising bookings: same number, same people.
Unit 7, Bonnington Mill, 72 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QG