Robert Mcwilliam Email and Phone Number

Robert or as he is most commonly known, Bob McWilliam, has a background of working in the media. Previously, Bob worked for 15 years at BBC Audience Services/BBC Information until the closure of the Glasgow office on 14 May 2010. Following this closure, Bob was a freelance advisor for Digital UK the agency responsible for advising television viewers on the switchover from analogue to digital television transmission with information and drop-in sessions in the Glasgow and west central Scotland area.Bob is also a stalwart of the West of Scotland radio scene. He was the launch programme director of Q96 FM in September 1992 and an advisor to Dumbarton area small-scale ILR service Castle Rock FM from 1995 and appointed a director in February 2000. He resigned from the re-named Castle Rock FM (now called Your Radio) on 31 January 2004 after completing the successful transition from Castle Rock FM 103 to YOURradio, and the award of the Helensburgh area small-scale local commercial radio licence by the Radio Authority. He wrote the successful Ofcom application for the Celtic Music Radio community radio project and led this ‘community of interest’ station to air in January 2008 on 1530AM after two trial Ofcom RSLs for the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in 2006 and 2007. He also submitted an application to Ofcom for an FM licence for Celtic Music Radio. This was successful with transmission on 95 FM from July 2014. Bob resigned from Celtic Music Radio in June 2015 after 10 years with the station and project.In 2017, Bob put together a team and licence application to Ofcom for a new licence to provide a service to Paisley and Renfrewshire. This application was successful with an award in February 2018 and the launch of Paisley FM 107.5 on 1 March 2019.Bob is very much a team player and takes on board other views as found in his Dr R. Meredith Belbin psychometric test at Glasgow Caledonian University in 1993.