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BBC Local Radio
BBC Local Radio (also referred to as Local BBC Radio) is the BBC's local and regional radio division for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 39 stations. As of December 2024, the network broadcasts to a combined audience of 7.1 million, with a listening share of 4.6%, according to RAJAR. History The popularity of pirate radio was to challenge a then very "stiff" and blinkered management at the BBC. The most prominent concession by the BBC was the creation of BBC Radio 1 to satisfy the ever-demanding new youth culture with their thirst for new, popular music. The other, however, was that these pirate radio stations were, in some cases, local. As a result, BBC Local Radio began as an experiment. Initially, stations had to be co-funded by the BBC and local authorities, which only some Labour-controlled areas proved willing to do. Radio Leicester was the first to launch on 8 November 1967, followed by Leeds, Stoke, Durham, Sheffield, Merseyside, Brighton, and Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Division (business)
A division, sometimes called a business sector or business unit (segment), is one of the parts into which a business, organization or company is divided. Overview Divisions are distinct parts of a business. If these divisions are all part of the same company, then that company is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the divisions. In the banking industry, an example would be East West Bancorp and its primary subsidiary, East West Bank. Legal responsibility Subsidiaries are separate, distinct Commercial law, legal entities for the purposes of taxation, regulation and Legal liability, liability. For this reason, they differ from divisions, which are businesses fully integrated within the main company, and not legally or otherwise distinct from it. The ''Houston Chronicle'' highlighted that the creation of a division "is substantially easier than developing subsidiaries. Because a division is an internal segment of a company, not an entirely separate enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Stoke
BBC Radio Stoke is the BBC's local radio station serving Staffordshire and South Cheshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, Freeview and via BBC Sounds from studios in the Hanley area of Stoke-on-Trent. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 118,000 listeners and an 8.9% share as of December 2023. Overview The station began broadcasting on 14 March 1968 as ''BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent''. Both of the English counties the station covers have no BBC local radio station for their whole area. In Staffordshire, the south is covered by BBC Radio WM, and the east by BBC Radio Derby. In Cheshire, north-western areas are served by BBC Radio Merseyside and the north-east by BBC Radio Manchester. The BBC has mooted at the possibility of launching a stand-alone station for Cheshire, but they have never been taken forward. The station broadcasts from its studios on Cheapside in Hanley, the biggest of the six towns that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent. There are also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Kent. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at The Great Hall in Royal Tunbridge Wells. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 136,000 listeners as of May 2025. History The radio station was launched in 1970 as BBC Radio Medway, originally only serving the Medway Towns. It broadcast from studios at 30 High Street in Rochester, a former newspaper office which was subsequently named Media House. The station became well known in the early 1980s for its early Friday evening soul music show presented by DJ Dave Brown, becoming one of the most listened to soul shows in the UK before DJ Robbie Vincent earned that achievement with the national broadcaster BBC Radio 1 in 1983. The station gained its current name on 2 July 1983 when operations expanded to cover all of Kent as part of the BBC's policy of operating countywide stations. Radio Medway was closed down b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester is the BBC's local radio station serving Greater Manchester. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 168,000 listeners and a 1.8% share as of March 2025. History BBC Radio Manchester (1970–1988) BBC Radio Manchester launched at 6 am on 10 September 1970 as the first local radio station in the city of Manchester. Initially broadcasting from studios at 33 Piccadilly overlooking Piccadilly Gardens in the city centre, the station's long-standing home was New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road. Radio Manchester originally broadcast only on 95.1 VHF ( FM); the frequency of 206 metres (1457 kHz), on the AM medium wave band was added approximately 2 years after the station first went on air. The first voice on air was Alan Sykes. Other presenters included Roy Cross, Sandra Chalmers, Mike Riddoch and Alex Greenhalgh. A very popular evenin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio London
BBC Radio London is the BBC Local Radio, BBC's local radio station serving Greater London. It broadcasts on FM broadcasting, FM, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Broadcasting House in Langham Place, London. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 548,000 listeners and a 0.9% share as of December 2023. History 1970–1988: Radio London Local radio arrived in London as part of the second wave of BBC local stations, following a successful pilot project headed by Frank Gillard, who on visiting the United States, discovered local radio stations of varying formats and brought the concept to Britain. Test transmissions for the new local radio station were carried out from Wrotham, Kent, on 95.3 MHz in FM broadcasting, FM Monaural, mono, relaying BBC Radio 1 (at the time broadcast only on medium wave), with several announcements informing listeners of the new service. On 6 October 1970, Radio London was launched, three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Humberside
BBC Radio Humberside is the Local BBC Radio, BBC's local radio station serving the former county of Humberside which includes the unitary authorities of England, unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire in England. It broadcasts on frequency modulation, FM, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Queen's Gardens, Kingston upon Hull, Queen's Gardens in Kingston upon Hull, Hull. According to RAJAR, the station had a weekly audience of 100,000 listeners as of May 2025. History BBC Radio Humberside began broadcasting in 1971 from studios above a post office on Chapel Street in Hull, three years before the county of Humberside was created. It has retained its name despite Humberside being abolished as a county in 1996. The station was initially only broadcast on VHF, with Medium wave broadcasts beginning in late 1971. On the first night of broadcasting, many West Yorksh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Derby
BBC Radio Derby is the Local BBC Radio, BBC's local radio station serving Derbyshire and East Staffordshire. It broadcasts on frequency modulation, FM, AM broadcasting, AM, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on St Helens Street in Derby. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 95,000 listeners as of May 2025. Overview BBC Radio Derby began broadcasting officially on 29 April 1971, though it went on air two months earlier than planned to cover the bankruptcy of the local aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce. The station's logo was a Rams head in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Much of the station's output is speech based, featuring news, sport, weather, travel, interviews, and discussions, mixed in with music and competitions. The station's primary audience is aimed at listeners aged over 45, though the sports and weekend shows attract a greater age range. BBC Radio Derby Sport broadcasts live match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Blackburn
BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Lancashire. Originally launched as BBC Radio Blackburn, in 1981 it expanded to cover the whole county and was renamed BBC Radio Lancashire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on Darwen Street in Blackburn. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 136,000 listeners as of May 2025. Technical BBC Radio Lancashire broadcasts on three FM transmitters. The 103.9 FM signal, which covers the central and western parts of the area, comes high on the Winter Hill transmitter, and its height gives it the greatest coverage over Lancashire. The signal can also be picked up nearby in North Manchester. The station's other FM transmitters cover the eastern part of the county with an additional FM transmitter covering the Morecambe Bay area. Beginning on 1 October 2001, the DAB signals have come from the EMAP Digital Central Lancashire 12A multiplex located at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Bristol
BBC Radio Bristol is the BBC's local radio station serving the cities of Bristol and Bath and the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Broadcasting House in Bristol. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 88,000 listeners as of May 2025. The worst performer of all BBC local stations. Technical BBC Radio Bristol broadcasts on FM frequencies 94.9 MHz ( Dundry), 104.6 MHz (Bath), 103.6 MHz (Weston-super-Mare), and on DAB. The Mendip transmitter, near Wells, used to broadcast BBC Radio Bristol on 95.5 MHz over a very large area but, from 3 December 2007, this was transferred to the new BBC Somerset service. Since the BBC relaunched BBC Somerset on FM, BBC Radio Bristol has been left free to concentrate editorially on Bristol, Bath and the rest of the former Avon area. On 11 December 2014, the station launched on Freeview cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio WM
BBC Radio WM is the Local BBC Radio, BBC's local radio station serving the West Midlands conurbation, West Midlands. It broadcasts on frequency modulation, FM, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at The Mailbox in Birmingham. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 193,000 listeners and a 2.2% share as of December 2023. History The station launched as BBC Radio Birmingham on 9 November 1970 and on 23 November 1981, the station changed its name to BBC WM to reflect that the station broadcasts to a wider area than just Birmingham. This date also saw the station launch a second MW transmitter to improve MW reception in Birmingham. A short-lived service called WM Heartlands ran between early 1989 and 1991 serving the 'Heartlands' area of East Birmingham using the 1458 medium wave frequency. It ran as an experiment, opting out from 8 am until 12 am. Further wavelength splitting took place later in 1989 when on 30 October 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Radio Nottingham
BBC Radio Nottingham is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Nottinghamshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on London Road in Nottingham city centre. According to RAJAR, 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 Nottingham and south Nottinghamshire, from Mapperley Ridge in north Nottingham * 95.5 to Mansfield 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 Leicester. Since 30 April 2004, the station has been available on DAB from the NDEM (NOW Digital East Midlands) Nottingham 12C multiplex from Waltham (main signal and in Leicestershire), 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 BB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Sussex
BBC Radio Sussex is the BBC's local radio station serving the counties of East and West Sussex. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on Queens Road in Brighton. According to RAJAR, BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Sussex share a combined weekly audience of 192,000 listeners and a 3.7% share as of December 2023. History BBC Radio Brighton (1968–1983) ''BBC Radio Brighton'' was one of the first wave of BBC Local Radio stations which took to the air during the late 1960s. Broadcasting from Marlborough Place, it officially opened on 14 February 1968, though a short-lived emergency service had been broadcast during the blizzards earlier that winter. Originally broadcast on 88.1 MHz VHF only, the station later acquired a medium wave frequency of 202m, and transferred to 95.3 MHz on VHF. The transmission area was initially restricted to little more than the immediate Brighton and Hove conurbation, with the surrounding suburbs. However, coverage was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |