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We cover everything from local sport, news, unsigned bands to specialist music shows, talk programmes and much more. No two days are the same on 94.4FM Salford City Radio and that's one of the reasons why our radio station is so exciting! Visit our schedule page to find out what’s on when and sign-up to our weekly newsletter on our homepage. We offer free advertising and promotion for all local no
t-for-profit organisations and because we too are a not-for-profit company we can also offer subsidised advertising for local businesses and promote local events free of charge. Salford City Radio also offers unique training and volunteering opportunities in all aspects of broadcasting. To find out how you can get involved visit our volunteer page.or contact [email protected] for an opportunities info sheet. We also love getting local musicians into the studio for interviews and acoustic sessions for more information visit our unsigned page. Our incredible commitment to the communities of Salford has been acknowledged three years in a row at the Salford Business Awards where we were runner-up in the Community Award in 2008 and 2010 and winners in 2009. Community Radio in the UK is regulated by OFCOM. You can find out more about Community Radio on the Community Media Association’s website.
10/12/2025
🎄 DAY 10 – UPDATE INTERRUPTED! 💻🧝♂️
Microsoft has officially stopped the elf today. Everything is on hold while we wait for Windows updates to install… and the elf is taking full credit.
He’s been spotted sat on the keyboard announcing, “You’re welcome, I scheduled this,” while watching the progress bar move at the speed of Christmas 1987. No clicking, no cancelling, no hope.
We’ll be back once Windows decides it’s ready. According to the elf, this is all part of the plan.
08/12/2025
🎄 DAY 8 – LEFT BEHIND! 🚒🧝♂️
After spending time with the firefighters at the Christmas Fair yesterday, we were convinced we’d lost our elf. Hours of searching, checking the car, checking the studio… nothing.
Turns out... they never left.
They’re still at the fire station, living their best life, chatting to the crew and pretending they’re now an honorary firefighter. One elf has zero intention of coming home.
We’re not sure whether to collect them… or just let them finish their shift!
07/12/2025
After three weeks in the Australian outback, Salford’s own Morgan Burtwistle, better known as Angry Ginge, has been named King of the Jungle.
07/12/2025
🎄 DAY 7 – PIZZA PROBLEMS! 🍕🧝♂️✨
Today we took our elf along to a Christmas Fair… and it didn’t take long for trouble to start. After proudly announcing they “LOVED pizza,” our elf then refused to eat the crust... and has now been officially told off for being wasteful.
Santa has reportedly moved them straight onto the Naughty List until further notice. The elf is currently appealing the decision, claiming the crust was “too chewy for someone of my size.”
Will they redeem themselves? Or will more crust-related chaos unfold? Stay tuned!
06/12/2025
🎄 DAY 6 – DASH THROUGH THE DOWNPOUR! 🌧️🧝♂️
It’s been raining all day, but our determined elves somehow managed to squeeze in one quick lap around the park before the darkness... and yet more rain... swept back in.
Soaked shoes, windswept hats and one elf loudly declaring, “I’m not built for British weather!”… but they did it. A full festive lap completed in true dramatic elf fashion.
They’re now drying off and plotting tomorrow’s agenda... preferably somewhere indoors! ☔🎄✨
05/12/2025
Long queues around Simister Island and Prestwich after breakdown blocks lanes near junction 16
05/12/2025
🎄 DAY 5 – WALKIE-TALKIE TAKEOVER! 📻
Our elves have struck again! This morning they snuck into the office, found the walkie-talkies… and are now causing absolute havoc across Salford.
From mysterious giggles on Channel 1 to someone shouting “Operation Jingle Bells is a go!” on Channel 3, they’ve turned our comms system into their personal comedy show. One elf is giving “important traffic updates” (all of them wrong), while the other is trying to order mince pies over the airwaves.
If you're hearing strange festive messages today, don’t panic. It’s just our elves living their best undercover-agent lives. 🎄📡
04/12/2025
Don't forget this free event on 4th-7th December!
Lightwaves Salford returns! Lightwaves Salford returns for 2025 and invites you to explore a trail of dramatic light art installations that animate and transform the waterside around Salford Quays and MediaCity. This year we’ll be celebrating our 12th Lightwaves with a trail of 12 illuminated artw...
04/12/2025
Starts tonight! Its on till 11th January!
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime as the West End smash-hit production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes to Salford.
04/12/2025
There are some great family shows on at Lowry Theatre for the festive season
The Enormous Crocodile is weaving his way through the jungle to Lowry in search of delicious little fingers and squidgy podgy knees…
04/12/2025
🎄 DAY 4 – COFFEE CRISIS! ☕
Disaster struck this morning… the elf has raided the coffee machine, beans are everywhere, and is currently swimming like it’s a luxury spa.
The other elf tried to help by “fixing” it, which has only resulted in us having zero morning coffee and one extremely wired elf who definitely should not have had a triple espresso.
Will we survive the day without caffeine? Tune in tomorrow... if we’re still awake!
03/12/2025
Salford Red Devils have been liquidated after 152 years, but fans and former staff are pushing to resurrect the club in time for the 2026 season.
Historic club wound up over unpaid tax as fans and former staff push for ‘phoenix’ revival.
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Salford City Radio is a not for profit organisation, and is a community radio with over 100 local volunteers. We have been broadcasting for over eleven years. Our main focus is our community, and community is at the heart of everything we do. We received funding for many years from the local council but in 2016 funding ended due to financial constraints on the council and since then we have relied on advertising, grants, generous donations, membership fees, and fundraising. We continue to seek sponsorship and funding to keep this valuable resource for the Salford community open.
Salford City Radio is a multi award winning local radio station, and was awarded the Queens Award for volunteering in 2016. This is the highest award a voluntary orgainsation can be awarded and is the equivolent of an MBE. Many of our volunteers have volunteered in excess of 1000 hours, some very much in excess of that. Some have been with us since the beginning, but we have a regular stream of new volunteers too.
Volunteers come from all backgrounds and become volunteers for many different reasons. Many volunteers come because they have a special interest in music and want to present a show, and it is possible to have that opportunity through community radio. Others come because they are interested in a new hobby or just want to simply be useful. Many of our volunteers come to us after illness, injury or disabilty, unemployment or bereavement. Some come to reduce social isolation, or for a few hours distraction and relief from difficult home circumstances. Others including students come to gain work experience, and to build a good CV to improve their chances of gaining future employment.
We have a very wide range of programmes which include all the usual shows you would expect on any radio station, ranging from specialist music shows, sports shows, new music, information shows and shows with guest interviews. We regularly have members of our local community in to promote their own projects, CDs, and productions and the good work being done by charities and local organisations. We keep Salford up to date with whats going on in and around the local area and beyond, and we have hourly news, weather, adverts and traffic updates too, and much more.
Not everyone wants to be behind a microphone, and volunteer roles range from fundraising, admin, meet and greet and the day to day tasks required to maintain any work environment. Additionally, all of those tasks required in radio production including, presenting, producing, research and jounalism, editing and technical roles. Training will be given to assist all volunteers in their particular area of interest, if possible.
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Email [email protected] or ring Jill Bowyer the Station Manager on 0161 793 2939 / 07305 765 546.
Community Radio in the UK is regulated by OFCOM. You can find out more about Community Radio on the Community Media Association’s website.
