Spin South West
| Broadcast area | Limerick, North Tipperary, Laois, Kerry, Clare |
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| Slogan | Number One for Music and Entertainment |
| Frequency | FM: 94.7, 102-103 MHz |
| First air date | 23 July 2007 |
| Format | Youth |
| Owner | Communicorp |
| Website | www.spinsouthwest.com |
SPIN South West is radio station broadcasting from Raheen in Limerick city to the South West of Ireland. It launched on 23 July 2007, and holds an Independent Regional Radio contract from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to broadcast to County Kerry, County Limerick, County Clare, County Tipperary and south-west County Laois. It is operated by SPIN South West Limited, a consortium including Denis O'Brien's Communicorp, Clare Community Radio Holdings plc, Jerry Kennelly, John O’Connor, Liam O’Shea and Keith Wood.
The stations caters to a mainly young provincial audience with a potential listenership of 150 thousand*. It is aimed at 15- to 34-year-olds and plays mainly popular music. The first song was played by Seamus Barry, and it was Timbaland's "The Way I Are".
The station broadcasts to the Munster region on 102-103 and 94.7 MHz FM. It is on air 24/7 playing popular music during most of the day and dance or techno music during the night. Specialist weekend shows hosted by Paul Webb, Peter Curtin and Code cover house, techno, hip-hop and drum'n'bass respectively.
SPIN South West's format is taken from Dublin's SPIN 1038, the original SPIN station started in 2002, also owned by Denis O'Brien's Communicorp Group Limited. The South West station also simulcasts programmes from its Dublin sister station. The primary example of this is SPIN Hits with Nikki Hayes, which is broadcast from 9:45 to 12:45 am daily. However, this is no longer broadcast since SPIN Now began. The stations make use of split links to regionalise the show, however generic jingles referring to the station as SPIN are used. Other programmes such as Club Educate and Hit 30 na hÉireann are also syndicated. In mid-2012, SPIN South West began using the same imaging as SPIN 1038, and also stopped its own news in favour of syndicated news from its Dublin counterpart.
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