PROGRAMMING

The programmes are in Five main segments – Diamond Power Drive, which has morning news, interviews, sports, health tit bits, travel news, music and phone-ins on the hottest issues of the day. Reputable companies and organisations sponsor some of the programmes and the station welcomes further sponsorship arrangements which are tailored to ensure client satisfaction and maximisation of listnership.

A work and happiness segment follows which includes local music, sponsored religious programmes from Dr. Mensah Otabil and Dr. Gordon Kisseh, Live Presenter Mentions and Woman to Woman, which is a discussion programme with women counselling women on health, child care, reproductive issues, home management etc.

Our main news bulletin is at 12 noon followed by an Akan version. Dagbani news is at 1700 and 1830 hour’s daily. Our bulletins are very current and unbeatable. Alongside the news bulletin is the Lunchtime on Diamond, which is a cool music segment.

The afternoon features the Diamond City Jam, which includes the BBC Focus on Africa, music, interviews, a public phone-in segment called Agenda which is always over subscribed. An important feature during the City Jam from Mondays to Fridays is newspaper reviews from 1700 hours to 1745 hours, the first in the Municipality. We have current affairs discussions as part of the Jam period – 24 hours and 7 days.

We close the day with Night Train, which is mainly music, light entertainment, public education on marriage and relationship issues in local languages – Dagbani and Akan. The Akan programmes Aware So and Asem Sebe and the Dagbani Gulma Saha are rush home items.

The station closes at 0100 hours with a religious programme Christian or Moslem, which lasts from midnight.

Our two hours broadcast of BBC programmes earns us one of our biggest listenership. Our religious broadcasts especially our gospel music presentations are highly popular with the growing Christian community. The Ahmadi Moslems are our next biggest patrons although we programme for the orthodox Muslims too.