Saturday, June 25, 2011 by Bill Everatt.

Hello there, this is Bill Everatt, with news about this weeks Celtica Radio Underground Edition, now on-line and Receivable Worldwide, On-line, On Digital and Mobile Wireless, and on 756 AM through the transmitters of Radio Hafren.

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We feature the band Electro Kill Machine.

In Urban Legends, we hear the story of The Phantom Legion.

And in our “who said this?”  I’d like to know who said this; “There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”  I’ll give you the answer at the end of the show.

Plus, music wise, we have tracks from; Minerva Street, Prolific Noise, Spanx T Urquhart, Tony Haven and Scarlet BLONDE.

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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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Sunday, April 24, 2011 by Bill Everatt.

From Midnight tonight Celtica Radio will be broadcasting our programmes on the medium wave.  For two hours nightly we will be syndicating our shows on Mid Wales’ new local radio station, Radio Hafren.

A couple of years ago we experimented with transmitting on the Medium Wave using the facilities of the supportive mainland European Broadcaster Radio Seagull/Radio Waddenzee.  The transmissions took advantage of the atmospheric effects that the Medium Wave or AM band is subject to late at night.  These characteristics ensured that the broadcasts could be received throughout most of Central Europe and the East Coast of the UK.

I’m so very grateful to Radio Hafren for giving us this opportunity and the owners themselves for supporting us… We’ve spent eleven long years working to get our shows broadcast on UK radio.  Not only will it bring our programmes to a whole new audience of late night listeners in Mid Wales and further afield. But as our material is syndicated during the hours of darkness, we will no doubt pick up what are known as DX, or distance, listeners as well.

As usual all our shows will also be available on-line to download or to listen again for one week to one month after the initial broadcast.

For me, Radio Hafren electing to take our syndicated shows on a nightly basis is a personal triumph, and a testament to the loyal and talented team of presenters it has been my privilege to represent since 1997.

So what’s going to be so special about these new shows then? I hear you ask?  What sort of value are they going to add?  Well…  Actually, the answer is in Celtica Radios origins, and the programmes we have been making and broadcasting across the world for the last eleven years.

Our station was born out of the very human condition of defiance and tenacity in defeat…  One of the things we were, and still are, very passionate about, is the fundamentally important role of broadcasters to champion new and unsigned and independent artists.

Thomas Pain, joint owner of Radio Hafren said:- “We’ve had an excellent relationship with Celtica Radio since January, and like us they have the same business ethos and local broadcasting values.  Plus they have already produced popular shows for us in both English and Welsh.  Indeed, the programmes produced by Celtica actually assisted in the transferring by Ofcom of our broadcast licence, so we know that we’ve got a tried and tested product already accepted by the regulator.”

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Friday, April 8, 2011 by Bill Everatt.

Hello there, this is Bill Everatt, with news about the brand Celtica Radio Underground Edition, Receivable Worldwide, On-line, On Digital Wireless and on the Nokia Mobile Phone Network for April 8th 2011.

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My special guest is Ludwig Amadeus, and I’ll be talking to him, about twenty minutes into the show.

In Urban Legends this time, we hear the story of The Visitor at Waunfawr.

And in our “who said this?”  I’d like to know who said this; “Justice delayed, is justice denied.”  So, who do you think said that?  Any Idea?  I’ll give you the answer at the end of the show.

Music wise, we have tracks from; Jim Hitchcock, DANTE, Fletcher, Lato and Mr Gary C.

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