BBC Radio Nottingham is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of

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. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via

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from studios on London Road in

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city centre. According to

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, the station has a weekly audience of 124,000 listeners and a 4.4% share as of December 2023.

Technical

Radio Nottingham is broadcast on three FM frequencies: * 103.8 to

and south

, from Mapperley Ridge in north Nottingham * 95.5 to

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...

and Ashfield, from Fishponds Hill * 95.1 to Newark from Beacon Hill (since January 2004) The Nottingham signal may be heard as far south as

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. Since 30 April 2004, the station has been available on DAB from the NDEM (NOW Digital East Midlands)

12C multiplex from Waltham (main signal and in

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), Mapperley Ridge and Fishponds Hill (since July 2006). The station also broadcasts on Freeview TV channel 712 in both the BBC East Midlands region and the BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region and streams online via

. The station used to broadcast an AM

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signal on 1584 kHz, from Clipstone, near Mansfield, until 25 January 2018 when the transmitter was turned off. This followed a trial, to determine if listeners would miss or complain about the loss of services on medium wave, from 17 August to 24 September 2012 when BBC Radio Nottingham stopped broadcasting its programmes on medium wave, instead directing listeners to FM or DAB. North Nottinghamshire, covering the district of Bassetlaw including the towns of Retford and

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, is officially covered by BBC Radio Sheffield on 104.1 FM from the

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transmitter. Although editorially, news for this area is covered by BBC Radio Nottingham, and FM reception (and to a lesser extent, DAB and Freeview) is possible in these areas.

Programming

Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's

studios from 6 am to 2 pm on Mondays to Fridays and for sports coverage. The 10 pm to 1 am late show originates from BBC Radio Manchester or

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. At weekends and on weekdays afternoons, much of the station's output is simulcast with BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Leicester. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Nottingham simulcasts overnight programming from

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Presenters

Former notable presenters

's Richard Bacon began his broadcasting career at this station. *

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, former late night host on

, worked as a reporter in 1978. *Comedian Boothby Graffoe had a weekly show for a short time in the late 1980s. * Simon Mayo began his radio career here where he worked for four years in 1982, moving to

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in May 1986. * Dennis McCarthy, who continued broadcasting on the station (despite falling ill) until the afternoon he died. * John Simons worked on the station in the late 1980s. He went on to be the Group Programme Director for

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References

External links

BBC Radio Nottingham

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