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List of BBC radio stations

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This is a list of national, regional and local radio stations owned by the BBC in the United Kingdom.

List of national radio stations

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All stations are available via BBC Sounds and online platforms.

Logo Name and launch date Format AM
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview
Freesat
Sky Virgin
Media
Former frequencies
since 1967
BBC Radio 1
1 August 1967
Contemporary hit music 97.1–99.7 12B 700 0101 901
  • MW 1214 kHz (1967–1978)
    • MW 1053
    • 1089 kHz (1978–1994)
BBC Radio 1 Dance
9 October 2020
Electronic dance music (12B future)
BBC Radio 1Xtra
16 August 2002
Black contemporary music 12B 701 0127 907
BBC Radio 2
1 August 1967
BBC Light Programme • 1945–1967
BBC National Programme • 1930–1939
Adult contemporary music 88.1–90.2 12B 702 0102 902
  • LW 200 kHz (1967–1978)
    • MW 693
    • 909 kHz (1978–1990)
  • MW 990 kHz (1983–1990)[1] (Wales only)
BBC Radio 3
1 August 1967
BBC Third Programme • 1946–1967
Classical, jazz and world music, culture and drama 90.2–92.6 12B 703 0103 903
  • MW 647 kHz (1967–1978)
  • MW 1215 kHz (1978–1992)
BBC Radio 4
1 August 1967
BBC Home Service • 1939–1967
BBC Regional Programme • 1930–1939
Spoken-word programming LW
198
92.5–96.1
103.5–104.9
12B 704 0104 904
    • MW 1088
    • 1151
    • 1457 kHz (1967–1973)
    • MW 692
    • 809
    • 881
    • 908
    • 1052
    • 1340 kHz (1967–1978)
  • LW 200 kHz (1978–1988)
    • MW 603
    • 720
    • 756
    • 774
    • 1449
    • 1485 kHz (1978 – 15 April 2024)
BBC Radio 4 Extra
2 April 2011
BBC 7 • 2002–2011
Archive programming 12B 708 0126 910
BBC Radio 5 Live
28 March 1994
BBC Radio 5 • 1990–1994
News, current affairs, discussion and sport MW
693
909

990 (Wales)
12B 705 0105 905
Also on BBC Local Radio stations, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Ulster overnight
BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
2 February 2002
Additional sports coverage 12B 706 0131 908
BBC Radio 6 Music
11 March 2002
Alternative music 12B 707 0120 909
BBC Asian Network
4 November 1996
Station for the British Asian community MW
828
837
1449
1458
12B 709 0109 912
BBC World Service
19 December 1932
International radio station for news and current affairs 12B 710[2]
711[3]
0115[4] 906[5] MW 648 kHz (1978–2011)
Also on Radio 4 and Radio Cymru overnight
Available worldwide on various other platforms

List of regional radio stations

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Channels numbers below are valid within the relevant region. Outside each region, channel numbers may differ, or may not be available, dependent on platform.

Logo Name and launch date Description AM
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview
Freesat
Sky Virgin
Media
Former frequencies
BBC Radio Scotland
23 November 1978
National radio station for Scotland MW
810
92.5–94.7 11B
11C
12D
719
712
0116 930 MW 585 kHz (1978-2020)
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal
1 October 1985
Scottish Gaelic language radio station 103.5–105 11B
11C
11D
720
713
0129 934 MW 990 kHz (1981-2015)[6]
BBC Radio Orkney
9 May 1977
Part-time radio station for Orkney which opts out of Radio Scotland 92.7
BBC Radio Shetland
9 May 1977
Part-time radio station for Shetland which opts out of Radio Scotland 93.7
Logo Name and launch date Description AM
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview
Freesat
Sky Virgin
Media
Former frequencies
BBC Radio Wales[note 1][7]
13 November 1978
National radio station for Wales MW
882
90.2–92.3
93.9–96.1
103.9
10D
12A
12D
719
714
0117 931 MW 657 kHz (1978-2020)
MW 1125 kHz (1985-2020)
BBC Radio Cymru
3 January 1977
Welsh language radio station 92.4–96.8
103.5–104.9
10D
12A
12D
720
715
0135 936
BBC Radio Cymru 2
29 January 2018
Part-time Welsh language radio station which opts out from Radio Cymru 10D
12A
12D
721
735
0136 913
Logo Name and launch date Description AM
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview
Freesat
Sky Virgin
Media
Former frequencies
BBC Radio Ulster
1 January 1975
National radio station for Northern Ireland 92–95 12D 719
716
0118 932 MW 873 kHz (1982-2021)[8]
MW 1341 kHz (1975-2021)
BBC Radio Foyle
11 September 1979
Part-time radio station for County Londonderry which opts out of Radio Ulster 93.1 12D 720
717
0135 933 MW 792 kHz (1978-2021)

List of BBC Local Radio stations in England

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BBC Local Radio logo
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
1 May 1982
Cambridgeshire Cambridge 95.7
96.0
11C
12D
722
  • MW 1026 kHz (until 2021)
  • MW 1449 kHz (until 1996)[note 2]
BBC Essex
5 November 1986
Essex Chelmsford 95.3
103.5
12D 734
  • MW 729 kHz (until 2021)
  • MW 765 kHz (until 2021)
  • MW 1530 kHz (until 2018)
BBC Radio Norfolk
11 September 1980
Norfolk Norwich 873 95.1
95.6
104.4
10B 719
  • MW 855 kHz (until 2020)
  • MW 1602 kHz (until 1982)[note 3]
BBC Radio Northampton
16 June 1982
Northamptonshire Northampton 104.2
103.6
10C 734 MW 1107 kHz (until 1992)
BBC Radio Suffolk
12 April 1990
Suffolk Ipswich 95.9
103.9
104.6
95.5
10C 720
BBC Three Counties Radio
24 June 1985
(as BBC Radio Bedfordshire)
Bedfordshire
Hertfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Dunstable 90.4
92.1
94.7
95.5
98.0
103.8
104.5
10D 720
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Derby
29 April 1971
Derbyshire
East Staffordshire
Derby 1116 104.5
95.3
96.0
10B 735
BBC Radio Leicester
8 November 1967
Leicestershire
Rutland
Leicester 104.9 11B 721 MW 837 kHz (until 1996)[note 2]
BBC Radio Nottingham
31 January 1968
Nottinghamshire Nottingham 103.8
95.5
95.1
12C 720
  • MW 1584 kHz (until 2018)
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview
Freesat
Sky Virgin
Media
Former frequencies
BBC Radio London
6 October 1970
Greater London London 94.9 12A 721
718
0135 937
  • FM 95.3 MHz
  • MW 1458 kHz (until 1993)[note 4]
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Cumbria
24 November 1973
(as BBC Radio Carlisle)
Cumbria Carlisle 756
837
95.6
96.1
95.2
104.1
104.2
11B 721 MW 1458 kHz (until 2020)
BBC Radio Newcastle
2 January 1971
Tyne and Wear
Northumberland
Northern County Durham
Newcastle upon Tyne 95.4
96.0
103.7
104.4
11C 719 MW 1458 kHz (until 26 February 2020)
BBC Radio Tees
31 December 1970
(as BBC Radio Teesside)
Northern North Yorkshire
Southern County Durham
Middlesbrough 95.0
95.8
11B 722 FM 96.6 MHz
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Lancashire
26 January 1971
(as BBC Radio Blackburn)
Lancashire Blackburn 95.5
103.9
104.5
12A 720
  • MW 855 kHz (until 17 May 2021)
  • MW 1557 kHz (until 17 May 2021)
BBC Radio Manchester
10 September 1970
Greater Manchester
Northeastern Cheshire
Northwestern Derbyshire
Salford 95.1
104.6
12C 719
  • MW 1296 kHz
  • MW 1458 kHz (until 1992)
BBC Radio Merseyside
22 November 1967
Merseyside
Northwestern Cheshire
West Lancashire
Liverpool 95.8 10C 722 MW 1485 kHz (until March 2020)
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Berkshire
21 January 1992
Berkshire
Northern Hampshire
Parts of Buckinghamshire
Parts of southern Oxfordshire
Reading 104.1
104.4
95.4
94.6
12D 719
BBC Radio Oxford
29 October 1970
Oxfordshire Oxford 95.2 10B 722 MW 1485 kHz (until April 1992)
BBC Radio Solent
31 December 1970
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
Eastern Dorset
Southampton 96.1 11C 722
  • MW 999 kHz (1970-2020)
  • MW 1359 kHz (1970-2020)
Central and western Dorset (opt-out) Dorchester 103.8 11B 726
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Kent
18 December 1970
(as BBC Radio Medway)
Kent Royal Tunbridge Wells 96.7
97.6
104.2
11C 719
  • MW 774 kHz (until January 2018)
  • MW 1035 kHz (until 1994)
  • MW 1602 kHz (until January 2018)
BBC Radio Surrey
14 November 1991
Surrey
Northeastern Hampshire
Northern West Sussex
Guildford 104.0
104.6
10C 722 MW 1368 kHz (until 3 January 2018)
BBC Radio Sussex
14 February 1968
(as BBC Radio Brighton)
East Sussex
West Sussex
Brighton 95.0
95.1
95.3
104.5
104.8
10B 720
  • MW 1161 kHz (until 3 January 2018)
  • MW 1485 kHz (until 3 January 2018)
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Cornwall
17 January 1983
Cornwall Truro 95.2
96.0
103.9
11B 721
  • MW 630 kHz (until 2 March 2020)
  • MW 657 kHz (until 2 March 2020)
BBC Radio Devon
17 January 1983
Devon Plymouth 103.4
94.8
95.7
95.8
96.0
104.3
11C
10C
12D
720
  • MW 801 kHz (until 3 August 2021)
  • MW 855 kHz (until 2007)
  • MW 990 kHz (until 3 August 2021)
  • MW 1458 kHz (until 15 January 2018)
BBC Radio Guernsey
16 March 1982
Bailiwick of Guernsey St Sampson
St Peter Port
1116 93.2
99.0
12A(+) 721
BBC Radio Jersey
15 March 1982
Jersey Saint Helier 1026 88.8 12A(+) 719
BBC Radio Somerset
11 April 1988
(as BBC Somerset Sound)
Somerset Taunton 1566 95.5 10B 722 MW 1323 kHz (until 2002)
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Bristol
4 September 1970
Bath
Bristol
South Gloucestershire
North Somerset
North East Somerset
Bath
Bristol
94.9
104.6
103.6
11B 719
  • MW 1323 kHz (until 1988)
  • FM 95.5 MHz (until 3 December 2007)
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
3 October 1988
Gloucestershire Gloucester 1413 104.7
95.0
95.8
10C 735 MW 603 kHz (until 1992)[9]
BBC Radio Wiltshire
4 April 1989
(as BBC Wiltshire Sound)
Wiltshire Swindon 103.6
103.5
104.3
104.9
10D
11C
721
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC CWR
17 January 1990 (original)
3 September 2005 (relaunch)
Coventry
Warwickshire
Coventry 94.8
103.7
104.0
12D 719
BBC Hereford & Worcester
14 February 1989
Herefordshire
Kings Norton
Worcestershire
Worcester 94.7
104.0
104.4
104.6
12A 720
  • MW 738 kHz (14 February 1989 - 13 May 2021)
  • MW 1584 kHz (2003 - 13 May 2021)
BBC Radio Shropshire
23 April 1985
Shropshire Shrewsbury 96.0
95.0
90.0
104.1
11B 721 MW 1584 kHz (until 2003)
BBC Radio Stoke
14 March 1968
(as BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent)
Northern and mid-Staffordshire
Southern Cheshire
Stoke-on-Trent 94.6
104.1
12D 726 MW 1503 kHz (1974 - 23 May 2021[10])
BBC Radio WM
9 November 1970
(as BBC Radio Birmingham)
Birmingham
The Black Country
Solihull
Southern Staffordshire
Birmingham 95.6 11B
11C
722
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Leeds
24 June 1968
West Yorkshire Leeds 92.4
95.3
102.7
103.9
12D
11B
719
  • FM 94.6 MHz
  • MW 774 kHz (until 1 June 2021)
BBC Radio Sheffield
15 November 1967
South Yorkshire
Northern Derbyshire
Sheffield 104.1
88.6
94.7
11C 734
  • FM 95.0 MHz
  • MW 1035 kHz (until 27 May 2021)
BBC Radio York
4 July 1983
North Yorkshire York 95.5
103.7
104.3
10C 720
  • MW 666 kHz (until 24 February 2020)
  • MW 1260 kHz (until 24 February 2020)
Logo Name and launch date Broadcast area Studios MW
kHz
FM
MHz
DAB Freeview Former frequencies
BBC Radio Humberside
25 February 1971
East Riding of Yorkshire
Northern Lincolnshire
Hull 95.9 10D 721
  • FM 96.9 MHz
  • MW 1485 kHz (until January 2018)
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
11 November 1980
Lincolnshire Lincoln 94.9
104.7
12A 722 MW 1368 kHz (until 15 January 2018)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "mb21 - The Transmission Gallery". tx.mb21.co.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". www.freeview.co.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Channels List and On-Demand Players | Freesat". www.freesat.co.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  4. ^ "All of the free TV channels on Sky in the UK". UK Free TV. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Virgin TV Channel guide". Virgin Media. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  6. ^ "mb21 - Transmitter Information - Radio Nan Gaidheal". tx.mb21.co.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Radio Wales Extra - Listen Live - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  8. ^ "mb21 - Transmitter Information - Radio Ulster". tx.mb21.co.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  9. ^ "mb21 - The Transmission Gallery". tx.mb21.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  10. ^ "mb21 - The Transmission Gallery". tx.mb21.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2024.

Notes

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  1. ^ An AM opt out station exists as BBC Radio Wales Extra, which is also available on BBC Sounds.
  2. ^ a b c d This frequency stopped broadcasting and was transferred to the BBC Asian Network in 1996.
  3. ^ changed to 873 kHz in 1982
  4. ^ now transmitting Lyca Radio
  5. ^ A short lived service called 'WM Heartlands' operated on this frequency between 1989 and 1991.