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BBC Radio Foyle ( ga, BBC Raidió Feabhail) is a BBC Northern Ireland local radio station, serving County Londonderry in
BBC Radio Foyle ( ga, BBC Raidió Feabhail) is a BBC Northern Ireland local radio station, serving County Londonderry in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
. It is named after the River Foyle which flows through Derry, the city where the station is based. The station broadcasts from BBC's Northland Road studios on 93.1 FM in Derry. It was available on 792 kHz MW until 6 May 2021.
There is also a small television studio based there used for interviews with the interviewee sitting in front of a CSO screen which normally has a live view of Derry. Since it broadcasts from a point close to the border between County Londonderry and County Donegal
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in the Republic of Ireland
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, it includes some coverage of the latter county.
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from BBC Radio's main Northern Ireland
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service, BBC Radio Ulster
BBC Radio Ulster ( ga, BBC Raidió Uladh) is a Northern Irish radio station owned and operated by BBC Northern Ireland, a division of the BBC. It was established on New Year's Day 1975, replacing what had been an opt-out of BBC Radio 4. It is ...
. BBC Radio Foyle's weekday schedule begins at 7:00am and continues until 4:00pm.
Programmes
*''Caschlár'' *Stephen McCauley (''Electric Mainline'') ("Afternoon Show") *''The Breakfast Show'' *''The Mark Patterson Show'' *News bulletins including sport, ''News at One'' and ''Sportsound'' *''Rejoice'' *''Stephen McCauley in the Afternoon'' *''The Friday Show''Digital
BBC Radio Foyle is available online and is carried onFreeview Freeview may refer to:
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in Northern Ireland (occupying the slot held by BBC Radio nan Gàidheal in Scotland
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and by BBC Radio Cymru
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The main network broadcasts for hours a day from ...
in Wales
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). It was not initially available on DAB digital radio, however; the Northern Ireland multiplex licence only requires carriage of Radio Ulster.
In June 2010, the BBC announced a trial scheme under which Radio Foyle would be available on DAB as a part-time sidecar station to Radio Ulster, using a similar format as the part-time longwave-programming optouts of BBC Radio 4
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on the BBC National DAB
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multiplex. During this trial, the bitrate of Radio Ulster would drop during Foyle's separate broadcast hours, with Foyle carried as a split audio stream in the remaining space; outside of split shows, the full bitrate would revert to Radio Ulster.
When the Digital One ensemble commenced broadcasting in Northern Ireland certain stations that used Digital One in the rest of the UK left the Northern Ireland ensemble, leaving space for Radio Foyle to broadcast in Stereo without the need for the Radio Ulster capacity to be split.
Following the closure of the medium wave services of BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle on 6 May 2021, the digital frequencies of BBC Radio Foyle have been used for split sports programming formerly broadcast on 1341 and 792 AM.
References
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* {{Authority control Foyle Mass media in Derry (city) Radio stations established in 1979 Radio stations in Northern Ireland BBC Northern Ireland 1979 establishments in Northern Ireland Mass media in County Londonderry Music in Derry (city)