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MA
Markymark
cityprod posted:
dvboy posted:
Markymark posted:

Ah, yes, I remember that too. I've just looked things up, 1981 was when the BBC relocated the AM Tx site to share with BRMB's at Langley Mill, to improve reception in the centre of Birmingham, and also added another
AM Tx at Sedgley (Beacon's Radio's site) to serve Wolverhampton properly. Of course both transmitters now carry the BBC Asian Network, and BBC WM is FM only.


It was also 1981 that BBC WM changed its name from BBC Radio Birmingham, presumably to reflect the wider coverage area.

I expect changing the name again 7 years later to "Greater Birmingham Radio" would not have gone down well with listeners.

"Greater Birmingham" is still not a popular term; it's a name that was considered for the West Midlands Combined Authority last year.


Indeed. All the original BBC Local Radio stations in the first phase had city names rather than county names. Stations like BBC Radio Bristol. Radio Leicester, Radio Newcastle and the like are mostly remnants of that first wave.


Yes, and some of them only city based (and no further) coverage, and on FM only initially too.

Radio Leeds opened on flea power, that struggled to cover the whole city, and the same for Sheffield and Leicester
IS
Inspector Sands
cityprod posted:

Indeed. All the original BBC Local Radio stations in the first phase had city names rather than county names.

Except for Merseyside. There was never a BBC Radio Liverpool for some reason.

The second lot of stations were mostly town/city names too, Solent, Teeside and Medway being the exceptions
SP
Steve in Pudsey
BBC Radio York, one of the last stations to open in 1983, was something of an anomaly, although it did dabble with split jingles to announce it as BBC North Yorkshire in some of the further reaches of their patch for a while.
MA
Markymark
Inspector Sands posted:
cityprod posted:

Indeed. All the original BBC Local Radio stations in the first phase had city names rather than county names.

Except for Merseyside. There was never a BBC Radio Liverpool for some reason.

The second lot of stations were mostly town/city names too, Solent, Teeside and Medway being the exceptions


Correction m'lord, Solent, Teesside, and Medway were all phase one stations. If Solent had been named Southampton, everyone in Portsmouth would have refused to listen. I suspect similar attitudes on Merseyside !
IS
Inspector Sands
Markymark posted:

Correction m'lord, Solent, Teesside, and Medway were all phase one stations.

Ah, I meant first lot as the 8 experiment stations and the second lot the 1970 ones.
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If Solent had been named Southampton, everyone in Portsmouth would have refused to listen. I suspect similar attitudes on Merseyside !

Yes with Southampton and Portsmouth but is there a similar rivalry between Liverpool and it's surrounding towns?
DV
dvboy
Inspector Sands posted:
Yes with Southampton and Portsmouth but is there a similar rivalry between Liverpool and it's surrounding towns?
Probably with the Wirral, yes.
SP
Spencer
Steve in Pudsey posted:
BBC Radio York, one of the last stations to open in 1983, was something of an anomaly, although it did dabble with split jingles to announce it as BBC North Yorkshire in some of the further reaches of their patch for a while.


So the rumour goes... apparently they didn't clear the name change with senior BBC management. When one of them was driving in the area, they weren't amused to discover a BBC radio station had been renamed without their knowledge, and ordered them to change it all back to Radio York.
radiolistener, TROGGLES and Steve in Pudsey gave kudos
RA
radiolistener
BBC Radio Lincolnshire's schedules for Christmas Day sees a huge afternoon chunk (2pm-6pm) devoted to - Joining BBC Radio Five Live.

Humberside? Have a Christmas requests show on between 3 and 6 as well as a local show before hand.

So who is getting the best of the budgets in the East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Region other than Lord Levy? Lincolnshire are very much the embarrassing relative when it comes to the "region". The station was certainly looked after better when part of the BBC East Midlands region.
Last edited by radiolistener on 6 December 2017 3:58pm
DV
dvboy
It will be an error, As 5 Live is the default when a programme is missing in the schedule. They don't have to have rhe schedule finalised yet.
HC
Hatton Cross
Not just local radio - There are great holes in the BBC Radio 4 schedule on the R4 website for Christmas Eve/Day at the moment.

10 days later

RA
radiolistener
And now a report on Levy Live about.

East Midlands Airport.

Proof again that this "show" really should be abandoned.
RA
radiolistener
The error still hasn't been addressed regarding BBC Radio Lincolnshire on Christmas Day:

14:00
As BBC Radio 5 live
25/12/2017
BBC Radio Lincolnshire joins BBC Radio 5 live.

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