BBC Radio Cleveland
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BBC Radio Cleveland is the BBC Local Radio service for the English areas of Teesside, County Durham and some of North Yorkshire. Launched in 1971 as Radio Teesside, it now broadcasts from its studios in Middlesbrough on 95.0 (Bilsdale Moor), 95.8 (Whitby) FM and DAB. It became known as Radio Cleveland on 1st April 1974, when the county of Cleveland was formed, and moved to new offices in 1983. On April 1st 1996, the county of Cleveland split into Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland. Included in the main listening area is the Army's main garrison at Catterick, and nearby Darlington, now part of the marketing-friendly, nicer-sounding Tees Valley.
The signal on 95FM is relatively strong and comes from the 900ft Bilsdale transmitter on the North York Moors. This transmits the main television signals for Teesside and North Yorkshire, and national radio frequencies, as well as the commercial stations TFM on 96.6FM, 100-102 Century FM on 100.7FM and Galaxy 105-106 on 106.4FM. Radio Cleveland has greater coverage than these independent stations. The Whitby transmitter also has the independent station Yorkshire Coast Radio on 103.1FM.
From 7pm until 10pm on weekdays, and from early evening until 12am on weekends, the station combines its output with BBC local radio in North England, namely Radio Newcastle and Radio Cumbria.
External links
- BBC Radio Cleveland (http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radiocleveland)
- Station history (http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radiocleveland/history)
- Media UK - BBC Radio Cleveland (http://www.mediauk.com/radio/293)
- History of local radio in Cleveland and Durham. (http://www.geocities.com/thehotw/aircheck_UKDurham.htm)
- MDS075's Transmitter Map. (http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/pipexdsl/r/arar93/mds975/txmaps/cleveland.html)
- Bilsdale Moor transmitter. (http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/bilsdale/index.asp)
- Whitby transmitter. (http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/whitby/index.asp)Template:UK-bcast-stub