Sunday, August 7, 2011 by Moderator.

Our “Old Bill” [Everatt] started in radio in 1979, and amongst the stations he’s broadcast on include ABC in Ireland, two years at Red Dragon Radio in Cardiff and six years at Swansea Sound!  But the station he’s spent the most time on is Celtica Radio.

He’s a rather reclusive animal – he doesn’t even do Facebook!  But now you can get to hear some vintage Bill, along with the other guys chatting to some great artists in Classic Celtica Interviews, every Sunday.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 by Moderator.

This last year has been an extremely interesting one for our station; a couple of our long term members’ decided to leave and several new voices join our network including Nick K, our first overseas presenter.

However, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the biggest events of recent years has been the association with Radio Hafren.

The story stretches back to Christmas with this cryptic Blog posting.  At the time, we felt that it would be prudent not to publicise that our station was a supporter of Radio Hafren.  Over the years, members of Celtica Radio, have been privately threatened over our continued public highlighting of the constructive exclusion we have faced.  We have had threats of jeopardy to our broadcasting careers if we continued to speak out, and these threats were made by senior managerial staff of other commercial radio stations.

We have no idea of how many other influential managerial staff of commercial radio stations actively pursue this prejudice, but some ARE still active in UK media.  It’s an inconvenient and embarrassing fact, but it’s not something that should be airbrushed from history, so we tell it here…

Clearly, given this hidden agenda, the last thing we wanted to do was to have Radio Hafrens’ association with us create problems for them.  So we resolved to quietly work in the background, assisting in the production of programming which would ensure the transfer of the broadcasting licence to Radio Hafren.  In turn, the owners of Radio Hafren have been very encouraging, and kindly agreed to allow us to keep our on-air identity in the programmes they syndicate from us.  Needless to say it is a privilege to provide them with continued support and to assist them in compliance with the OfCom promise of performance.

Celtica Radio has always been keen on the promotion of the Welsh language, and we’re proud to be the producers of Ser-am Saith for Radio Hafren, presented by our own Alun-Wyn Dafis.

Since we started broadcasting on 756kHz Medium Wave, we have received renewed interest in our station and our internet audience figures are steadily rising too.  Plus, it was a real shot in the arm when we started getting reception reports from our Medium Wave broadcasts.  The furthest to date is some sixteen kilometres south of Amsterdam, many hundreds of miles away from the one kilo-watt medium wave transmitter in Newtown, Powys.

Above all these last twelve months have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Celtica Radio can make, deliver and sustain a quality alternative radio service; and co-exist with established commercial radio, and that such a service would enrich the choice of listeners wherever and whenever they tune in.  All we asked was a chance to prove it, and thanks to Thomas Pain and Alistair Tyne we have been given that chance.

Celtica Radio – Not bad for a station that the pundits said wouldn’t last three months after we launched on June 21st 2000!

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by Moderator.

Celtica Radio is pleased to announce that the British hardhouse and trance music record producer; Jon the Dentist (born John Vaughan), is returning to broadcast on our station. Jon will be presenting the stations dance programme, the Pre-Club Mix.

Jon was a founder of the Nu-NRG dance music sound of the 1990s, and he has released many popular singles including “Feel So Good” and “Imagination” with Ollie Jaye, both of which reached the UK Singles Chart.

The first programme of the new series will feature four mix sessions, each of around fifteen minute’s duration, mixed exclusively for Celtica Radio by Jon from studios in Pembroke. This first programme in the new series will be a continuous mix of music with no DJ voice presentation, although this is expected to change later on in the series.

Jon the Dentist has an unbelievable portfolio, having released scores of mixes on such labels as Tidy Trax, Sony, EMI Positiva, Nukleuz, ID&T, as well as his own record label too.

The All New Pre-Club Mix will go on-line tonight just after five PM UK time.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by Moderator.

We’re pleased to announce that the Managing Director of Apple FM and broadcaster; Jack Knowlson, has joined Celtica Radio.

Jack, will be well known to listeners in Europe as the presenter of the Dark Side, a programme broadcast by our friends on Radio Seagull. Here on Celtica Radio, Jack will be injecting new life into an old favourite, the Automatic Rock Show.

Each week, you’ll be able to hear some of the finest Independent and Unsigned Rock Bands in the world spiced up by Jacks edgy and knowledgeable presentation. So welcome Jack, from all of us on the station.

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Saturday, March 5, 2011 by Moderator.

We’re sorry to have to report that KC Jones has, after nine years of sterling and loyal service to Celtica Radio, decided to step down from presenting programmes.

I’m sure you will join us all in wishing KC the very best in his retirement and in whatever he decides to undertake in the future, and in also saying should he ever wish to return to Celtica Radio, he only has to ask.

Without KC’s tireless assistance, especially during our Roadshows, the work would have been a lot more difficult, and all of us at Celtica Radio owe him a debt of gratitude.  This guy has earned a rest, and it was a privilege to have broadcast alongside him.

At this time we do not have a presenter to take over his R’n’B show; and for the time being this programming feature will be discontinued until such time as we can recruit a suitable replacement.

You will be sorely missed Clive! –  The ‘A’ Team

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