BBC Radio Cornwall
Radio station in Truro
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Broadcast area | Cornwall |
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Frequency |
FM
: 95.2 MHz (East Cornwall)
FM: 96.0 MHz ( Isles of Scilly ) FM: 103.9 MHz ( West Cornwall ) DAB : 11B Freeview : 721 |
RDS | BBC CNWL |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English , Cornish |
Format | Local news, talk and music |
Ownership | |
Owner |
BBC Local Radio
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BBC South West |
History | |
First air date
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17 January 1983 |
Former frequencies
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630
MW
657 MW |
Links | |
Website | BBC Radio Cornwall |
BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cornwall .
It broadcasts on FM , DAB , digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Phoenix Wharf in Truro .
According to RAJAR , the station has a weekly audience of 105,000 listeners and a 14.2% share as of June 2023. [1]
Overview
Prior to its launch on 17 January 1983, local radio services for Cornwall had amounted to a regional weekday breakfast show Morning Sou'West on the frequencies of BBC Radio 4 in Devon and Cornwall plus five-minute regional bulletins at lunchtime and teatime with no regional bulletins of any kind on Sundays.
Initially, Radio Cornwall shared an afternoon programme with BBC Radio Devon , but now sustains up to 16 hours a day of local programming.
BBC Radio Cornwall can be heard on 95.2 MHz in the east, 96.0 MHz on the Isles of Scilly and 103.9 MHz in the west , as well as on DAB . It was also broadcast on 630 kHz and 657 kHz AM until 2 March 2020, when those transmitters were closed for cost savings. [2]
The station also broadcasts on Freeview TV channel 721 in the BBC South West region and streams online via BBC Sounds .
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's Truro studios from 6 am to 10 pm on weekdays, from 6 am to 1 am on Saturdays and from 6 am to 2 pm on Sundays.
Daniel Pascoe's show (Saturdays 6 pm to 8 pm) and his BBC Introducing show (Saturdays 8 pm to 10 pm) are both broadcast to BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Somerset
David White's Boogie Wonderland show on Saturdays between 10 pm to 1 am is also broadcast to stations in the BBC South West and BBC West regions.
Off-peak programming, including the Sunday late show from 10 pm to 1 am, originates from BBC Radio Devon in Plymouth . The weekday late show from 10 pm to 1 am originates from BBC Radio Gloucestershire in Gloucester
During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Cornwall simulcasts overnight programming from BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio London .
Cornish language output
Radio Cornwall is one of two radio stations to have broadcast programmes in the Cornish language . A five-minute news show, An Nowodhow , used to be broadcast every Sunday. [3] [4]
When Radio Cornwall was first set up Cornish language content was limited to around 2 minutes per week. In 1987, a new weekly 15-minute-long bilingual show, Kroeder Kroghan, detailing Celtic cultural events taking place in Cornwall , was introduced. [5]
Presenters
Notable past presenters
See also
References
- ↑ "RAJAR" . RAJAR . Retrieved 27 September 2015 .
- ↑ "BBC Blog - Further changes to some BBC local radio medium wave services" . BBC. 13 January 2020. Archived from the original on 14 May 2020 . Retrieved 5 March 2021 .
- ↑ Diarmuid O'Néill, Rebuilding the Celtic Languages: reversing language shift in the Celtic countries , 2005
- ↑ John T. Koch, Celtic Culture: a historical encyclopedia , 2006
- ↑ Martin John Ball, James Fife, The Celtic Languages , 1993
External links
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