Community Radio Youghal’s new schedule began last Monday, March 29th. From that day, the station will broadcast live programmes from midday to 10pm Monday to Friday. All weekend programming is already live and there will also be some small changes to make the station’s weekend listening even better. Photo: Michael Hussey Youghalonline.com

Every weekday programmes will begin with ‘Yawl Ready for This?’ from midday ’til 2pm. It’s a light chat based programme with interviews, features, guests and music. The programme will have three presenters throughout the week; Kieran Kidney, Rhona Coughlan and Shane Supple who’ll retain his regular Local Music Scene as part of Friday’s show. The show will also feature an update on News, Weather and Bereavement announcements at 1pm.

CRY Chairman, Tommy Collins is confident that the new schedule will be a big hit locally. “Listeners will continue to enjoy all of their favourites here on CRY and, in addition they will now have a whole range of new presenters and new live programmes every day”, said the Chairman.

The station’s new evening magazine show ‘Youghal @ 5′ will begin each weekday at 5pm and run until 6.30 with News, live interviews, vox pops, bereavement notices, traffic news and more.

There will also be a new weekly Arts programme called ‘Spotlight’, every Wednesday from 6.30 – 7.30pm. CRY’s new inclusiveness programme ‘Perspectives’ will be on every Thursday evening from 6.30 – 7.30.

The new schedule will also feature a new Youth show on Tuesdays, as well as new programmes on Pipe Band music, American Country music and a new weekly documentary slot.

At weekends, Noel Cronin’s popular ‘Rural Report’ programme gets an extra half hour and will now run from 10am to midday on Saturday, while listeners can enjoy an extra half hour of Pat Reilly’s unique mix of News and current affairs from 3-5pm on Saturdays.

Station Manager, Declan Gibbons is excited, not just by the programmes, but by all of the volunteer involvement. “We put out the call for new volunteers a few months ago”, he told the Evening Echo “and since Christmas especially, we’ve had a huge response from volunteers of all sorts.

“Some people have offered to answer the phone, others want to present programmes, while many more have offered to do research and work behind the scenes. We’ll also have a huge number of people contributing  to programmes across the schedule.

All of the stations regular favourites will also continue to bring the best in local broadcasting to the communities of Youghal, East Cork and West Waterford.

So tune in to Community Radio Youghal, where from next Monday there will be even more on the station’s 104fm wavelength.

You can get full details of CRY 104fm’s new schedule and listen live to all your favourite broadcasters by logging on to www.youghalradio.com.