station name: The Hospital Broadcasting Service (Glasgow)

Organisation name

The Hospital Broadcasting Service.

Receiving hospitals

Blawarthill, Drumchapel, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital (Paisley), West of Scotland Cancer Centre (Beatson), Western Infirmary.

NHS region

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Tune in

Bedside headsets and dayroom speakers.

Broadcasting hours

7pm-10pm Sunday-Friday.

Further information

The Service was formed in 1970 as the first dedicated hospital radio service for Glasgow. It also quickly spawned Hospital Radio Paisley which served locations south of the River Clyde. The Hospital Broadcasting Service is still going strong, with its seventy volunteers continuing to develop with the times and adopt technology to ensure that the maximum number of patients in the locations we serve are able to receive the daily broadcasts and hear the records that they ask us to play on our nightly request programmes.

Throughout the years the organisation has seen over one hundred of its members move into professional broadcasting, something which reflects well on the quality of training provided.

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