BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of

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. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via

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from studios at Phoenix Wharf in

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. According to

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, the station has a weekly audience of 125,000 listeners and a 20.5% share as of September 2022.

Overview

Prior to its launch on 17 January 1983, BBC local radio services for Cornwall had amounted to a regional breakfast show ''

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'' on the AM frequencies of Radio 4 in

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and Cornwall plus brief regional bulletins at lunchtime and teatime. Initially, Radio Cornwall shared an afternoon programme with

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, 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 also broadcast on 630 kHz and 657 kHz AM until 2 March 2020, when those transmitters were closed for cost savings. In addition, BBC Radio Cornwall also broadcasts on

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TV channel 721 in the

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region and streams online via

Programming

Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's Truro studios from 6am - 10pm on weekdays and from 6am - 6pm and 10pm-1am Saturdays and 6am-2pm on Sundays David White's Boogie Wonderland show on Saturdays between 10pm-1am is also broadcast to stations in the BBC South West and West regions Off-peak programming, including the Sun-Fri late show from 10pm - 1am, originates from

in Plymouth. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Cornwall simulcasts overnight programming from

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and

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Cornish language output

Radio Cornwall is one of two radio stations to have broadcast programmes in the

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. A five-minute news show, An Nowodhow, used to be broadcast every Sunday. 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.Martin John Ball, James Fife, ''The Celtic Languages'', 1993

Notable past presenters

Brenda Wootton Brenda Wootton (née Ellery) (10 February 1928 – 11 March 1994) was a British folk singer and poet and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture in all the Celtic nations and as far as Australia and Canada. Early lif ...

(deceased) *

Jonathan Samuels Jonathan Samuels (born 1972) is a British broadcaster and journalist. He co-anchored Sky News Sunrise (Sky News), Sunrise between 2016 and 2018 and now anchors The News Hour on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well as News at Ten during weekend p ...

Caroline Righton Caroline Anne Righton (born 26 February 1958), is an English television presenter and author, best known for being a presenter on the daily breakfast television station TV-am and being an anchor of the Channel 4 news show, ''The Channel Four Dai ...

Rod Lyon Rod Lyon was born in Cornwall and trained as a civil engineer. After spending some early years at sea, he worked until retirement as a Local Government Officer. He was the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow between 2003-2006 with the bardic name of " ...

(deceased) *Laurence Reed

References

External links

BBC Radio Cornwall

Media UK - BBC Radio Cornwall
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