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Contact & Advertise

On air

Talk to the studio any hour

The 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.

Request & studio line
0131 496 0188
Hours
On air 24 hours. Studio desk Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Request line open 7pm to midnight.

Send it over

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.

Read by a human, not a bot

The studio

radio presenter at a mixing desk in a small independent studio at night

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.

  • Address Unit 7, Bonnington Mill, 72 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QG
  • Phone 0131 496 0188
  • Email studio@northlightradio.scot
  • Opening hours On air 24 hours. Studio desk Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Request line open 7pm to midnight.

Four ways
on air

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.

  1. 01

    Request a track

    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 0188
  2. 02

    Pitch a show

    Send 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.scot
  3. 03

    Book airtime

    Thirty 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 card
  4. 04

    Sponsor a show

    Put 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 schedule

The desk is staffed

Ring it. We answer.

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.

0131 496 0188 studio@northlightradio.scot

Unit 7, Bonnington Mill, 72 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QG