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The station proper was launched as BBC Somerset Sound on 11 April 1988, broadcasting on BBC Radio Bristol's former frequency of 1323 medium wave.It was based in studios above a café on Paul St, Taunton, run by producer-in-charge, Clinton Rogers and news producer Anne Ashworth, with a smaller satellite studio in Yeovil run by district producer, Steve Haigh.
BBC Radio 2: Adult contemporary/AOR: 13.281 BBC Radio 4: Spoken word (news, drama, factual, comedy) 9.116 BBC Radio 1: Current-based music (pop, rock, dance, urban, alternative) 7.330 Greatest Hits Radio: Classic hits and specialist music 6.753 BBC Radio 5 Live: Rolling news, discussion and sport 5.245 Classic FM: Classical music: 4.689 Magic ...
BBC Radio London was the local station for the capital, although, in its early days, it relied heavily on news reports from other stations in the BBC network and often shared programming with BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.
2022 in British radio – Permanent small-scale DAB multiplexes begin to go on air; The first full-time radio simulcast of a TV station begins when GB News Radio is launched on Digital One; Plans are announced to close BBC Radio 4's long wave service, BBC Radio 5 Live's medium wave frequency and BBC Radio 4 Extra as a cost-saving measure; The ...
She then joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a regional North East reporter, before relocating to London as a weekend news presenter, and also presenting on Newsbeat. Foster joined the BBC Radio 5 Live Weekend Breakfast show on 23 April 2011, replacing Rachel Burden who moved to the weekday 5 Live Breakfast team alongside Nicky Campbell on 3 May.
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1973 and 1983, with a further adaptation of Gaudy Night mounted for BBC Audiobooks in 2005 to complete the full sequence of Sayers' novels, all starring Ian Carmichael in the title role.
The extension contains the BBC News and Journalism departments, and state-of-the-art technical equipment and new studios to house the BBC News bulletins on television, the BBC News Channel and BBC World News, the BBC Arabic Television service and the BBC Persian Television service. At the heart of this is a new newsroom, the largest live ...