BBC Radio Shetland is an opt-out service of BBC Radio Scotland, covering the Shetland Islands

Shetland Islands

Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. The station airs from studios located in Pitt Lane, Lerwick.

Programming

It has two programme slots, broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland

BBC Radio Scotland

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's Shetland frequency (92.7 MHz). It is also possible to listen via the BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer

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. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/news/shetland/

The nightly magazine programme, Good Evening Shetland, is broadcast from 5:30pm to 6:00pm GMT each weeknight and features news and current affairs, weather, fishing reports, public platform and much more. A weekly dedications programme - Give Us A Tune - is broadcast on Friday evenings from 6:10pm to 7:00pm GMT. The winter schedule offers varied programming from Monday to Thursday at 6:10pm in addition to the main Good Evening Shetland programme.

Station staff

News Editor

John Johnston

Producers

Carol Anderson

Mike Grundon

News/Production

Jane Moncrieff

Mark Inchley

Helen Smith

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