Sabras Radio

Sabras Radio is an Asian commercial radio station based in Leicester, England, available on 1260AM and DAB.[1] The radio station broadcasts to the East Midlands, Birmingham, Coventry, and Milton Keynes. It is also accessible online through SabrasRadio.com and through the mobile app SabraRadio, TuneIn and Simple Radio. Sabras Radio also hosts TV, Urban, Film, and many other great things.[2] The presenters broadcast in Hindi and English covering topics of interest to the British Asian audience. The station features an "open-door policy", welcoming listeners from the street to join the presenters in the studio.[3][4]

Sabras Radio
CityLeicester
Broadcast areaLeicestershire, West Midlands and Buckinghamshire
Frequency91.0 FM
102.1 FM
1260 AM
DAB: 11B
RDSSABRAS
Programming
Language(s)Hindi, English, Gujarati, Punjabi and Bengali
FormatCommercial
Ownership
OwnerSabras Sound Ltd
Sanskar Radio
History
First air date
7 September 1995
Technical information
ClassEuropean
Transmitter coordinates
52.6190°N 1.1315°W / 52.6190; -1.1315
Links
Websitewww.sabrasradio.com

Background and History

[5]

On 7th September 1981, new ILR station Centre Radio broadcast a programme called Sabras on its first day on air. This continued until Centre stopped broadcasting in September 1983. However the programme was picked up by its replacement Leicester Sound and the new station aired the programme for two hours each weeknight with a three hour show on Sunday evenings.

In 1988, Sabras was further extended when split programming was introduced. It aired on GEM-AM every day from 6pm (7pm on Sundays) until 10pm.

In 1992 Leicester Sound announced that it was to launch a full time Asian station on MW and it decided to simulcast London's Sunrise Radio, thereby bringing Sabras to an end after 11 years on air. Sunrise East Midlands went on air on 15 September 1992.

The following year saw the Leicester licenses come up for renewal and Sabras Sound, which was created by an early pioneer of Asian radio in Leicester, Don Kotak, was one of the bidders, and was successful and 14 years to the day after the sabras programme launched on Centre Radio, Sabras Sound went on air.

The station was later renamed as Sabras Radio and broadcasts on AM in Leicester as well as on the county's DAB multiplex.

Controversies

In 2019 Sabras Radio published two podcasts featuring Caroline McDonagh, a nutritionist from Ireland, who was described by the Sunday World as a "disciple" of Tony Quinn who founded Educo which has been described as "Cult-like".[6][7][8][9][10][11]

McDonagh featured in two episodes and laughed with the host about the importation of fresh produce. The Sunday World had stated that whenever Quinn "holds a seminar abroad she sends out bags of duck eggs, fresh organic beef and pink lady apples".[12][13][14] Sabras Radio removed one of these podcasts from their website on 4 May 2021.

References
  1. "Sabras Radio announces Summer Bash 2018". BizAsia | Media, Entertainment, Showbiz, Events and Music. 20 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. "How to listen to Sabras?". Sabras Radio. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  3. "Sabras Radio: reflecting your audience". BBC Academy.
  4. "Sabras Radio Information".
  5. Asian Sound Transdiffusion.org - Asian Sound
  6. Sue Denham (Pseudonym for Sunday Times Ireland's Staff Writers) (3 September 2006). "Comment: Sue Denham". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 5 January 2021.(subscription required)
  7. Paul Cullen (22 July 2012). "Tony Quinn in court row over oil firm millions". Irish Times. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  8. Paul Cullen (22 June 2012). "Quinn tells court he asked oil firm to provide security". Irish Times. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  9. "Journalist is not obliged to testify in US case". Irish Times. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  10. Paul Cullen (29 June 2012). "Quinn link to oil firm downplayed over cult claim, court told". Irish Times. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  11. Nicola Tallant (25 January 2009). "Bodybuilder reveals dodgy practices in the cult-like organisation". Sunday World. pp. 20, 21.
  12. Nicola Tallant (23 August 2009). "Messiah's Army Of Apostles - Tony's Disciples Show Absolute Devotion". Sunday World. pp. 40, 41.
  13. "Caroline Mc Donagh - Sabras Moments - Sabras Radio - Your No.1 Hit Asian Music Station". 27 March 2019. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  14. "Caroline Mc Donagh - Sabras Moments - Sabras Radio - Your No.1 Hit Asian Music Station". 12 June 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
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