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BBC Radio York is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of
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. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios in the
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area of
York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
. According to
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, the station has a weekly audience of 59,000 listeners and a 3.7% share as of September 2022.


Early history

In May 1982, just over a year before the station was due to launch, a temporary service was provided to cover
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's visit to
York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
. The service, which ran for just over 24 hours, operated on what was to be the station's primary MW frequency and was also broadcast on the other local stations in the Yorkshire region. The station was launched at 6:30am on 4 July 1983, and featured on the cover of the
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. The first station manager was John Jefferson with the late Tony Fish as Programme Organiser. The original team included David Farwig, Derm Tanner, Andy Joynson, David Thomas,
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, Graham Pass, Nik Wood (Scarborough Producer), Diane Myers (Harrogate Producer), Andy Hitchcock, Chris Loveder, Chris Choi, Charlotte Counsel, Shirley Lewis and Sandy Barton. Initially, the station was only on air for a few hours a day - (6:30am to 1pm and 4pm to 6pm during the week with weekend programming restricted to 8am until around 2pm) and carried
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the rest of the time. At first, local sports coverage was produced by
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. During the second half of the 1980s, broadcast hours slowly expanded. Afternoon broadcasting was introduced and programming started earlier in the day - 6am during the week and 7am over the weekend. Radio York also started producing its own sports programmes on Saturday afternoons but did not introduce its own Sunday afternoon programming until the end of the decade. Evening programming started in August 1986, when Radio York joined with the other BBC local stations in Yorkshire in broadcasting an early evening service of specialist music programmes. May 1989 saw the launch of
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- a group of
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Local Radio stations in the North of England which featured networked programming every evening. This provided BBC Radio York with evening programming, keeping the station on air until midnight seven days a week, extended until 12:30am in the early 1990s, and to 1am by the end of that decade. One of those shows, Late Night North with David Dunning, often aired from the York studios and in 2002 the BBC's Yorkshire stations, including Radio York, parted from the network to bring back a phone-in with Alex Hall, who had hosted a similar show on
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, as presenter. Other programming included Martin Kelner's Late Thing. ''The Early Show'' from
BBC Radio Humberside BBC Radio Humberside is the BBC's local radio station serving East Yorkshire and North & North East Lincolnshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Queen's Gardens in Hull. According to RAJAR, the statio ...
(within the
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region) was also carried. BBC Radio York was not the first radio station broadcasting in York.
University Radio York University Radio York (commonly known as URY) is a University Radio station covering the campuses of the University of York. It was the first legal independent radio station in the United Kingdom. Broadcasting from Vanbrugh College on the Univ ...
, the oldest independent legal radio station, is the
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's student radio station and before the BBC, URY was named Radio York. The independent commercial rival,
Minster FM Minster FM was a local radio station serving York and the surrounding areas such as Selby, Tadcaster, Thirsk, Northallerton and Goole. The station closed on 31 August 2020 and its frequency is now a relay of Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire York & ...
, began broadcasting on 4 July 1992. Stray FM, the independent station covering the
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and
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areas, made its first transmission exactly two years to the day after Minster's launch and eleven years to the day after Radio York's launch.


Technical

BBC Radio York broadcasts from its studios in
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on 95.5 (
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,
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), 103.7 ( Acklam Wold transmitter near
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, midway between York and Malton) and 104.3 (Woolmoor, near
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four miles north of
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close to the A19 - for
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,
Northallerton Northallerton ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It had a population of 16,832 in the 2011 census, an increase ...
and the
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) FM, and online from their website. Until 24 February 2020, BBC Radio York also broadcast on MW - 666 ( Fulford) and 1260 (Row Brow, Scarborough) AM. The transmitters were closed as a cost-cutting measure. Acklam Wold is the strongest frequency on 103.7 which is for
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and the
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, and the 140 ft transmitter also has the commercial station,
Greatest Hits Radio York and North Yorkshire Minster FM was a local radio station serving York and the surrounding areas such as Selby, Tadcaster, Thirsk, Northallerton and Goole. The station closed on 31 August 2020 and its frequency is now a relay of Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire York & ...
on 104.7. The 103.7 signal can be heard as far south as
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on the M1, and can be received in
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and
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. However, in the early days Radio York's FM frequencies were 90.2 FM and 97.2. The Olivers Mount transmitter also transmits
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on 96.2, as well as television and national radio frequencies. The Woolmoor transmitter has national radio frequencies. Much of BBC York's studio infrastructure was the original Mk3 installation, dating from the station's inception in 1983. This ageing equipment had become unreliable, causing the station to "fall off air" regularly. Because the refurbishment required was significant, it would not be possible to continue to broadcast from the existing premised during the refurbishment, and no suitable alternative premises could be identified. Therefore, plans were drawn up for BBC York to move in with BBC Leeds temporarily and to retain a presence in North Yorkshire through the BBC Bus, and through increased contributions from district studios in Harrogate and Scarborough. BBC York has since completed refurbishment of studio equipment and news room.


DAB licence

The DAB licence that BBC Radio York uses covers North Yorkshire from transmitters at Acklam Wold, Oliver's Mount, Harrogate Hilderbrand and Bilsdale. The licence was advertised in June 2007 and was awarded to
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, in September 2007. It was supposed be ready in June 2009, then revised to December 2009. Finally, the North Yorkshire DAB multiplex launched on 17 December 2014. In addition, the station also broadcasts on
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TV channel 720 in the
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region and streams online via BBC Sounds.


Programming

Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's York studios from 6am - 10pm each day. The station's Sunday evening output also airs on
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and BBC Radio Lincolnshire. The current weekday daytime presenters are Georgey Spanswick from 0600 to 1000, Jonathan Cowap from 1000 to 1400 and Joanita Musisi from 1400 to 1800. Off-peak programming, including the regional late show (10pm - 1am), originates from
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. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio York simulcasts overnight programming from
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and BBC Radio Leeds.


News, Sport and Weather

BBC Radio York provides hourly local news and sport bulletins and weather forecasts every half-hour from 6am until 6pm on weekdays. On weekends, local news and weather airs hourly from 7am until 1pm.


Notable former presenters

Former presenters at the station include
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commentator Rob Hawthorne and
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, who went on to present Look North and report for ''
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''. Victor Lewis-Smith started his BBC career here, presenting his chat and music programme, ''Snooze Button'', on Sunday mornings in 1984. ''
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'' host
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made several guest appearances in the early 2000s. ''
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Awards

In 2001 BBC Radio York won the Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for Community Service for "Floodwatch News" - its coverage of the floods that hit the county of North Yorkshire in November 2000. In 2002 BBC Radio York was awarded Silver in the News Programme category for The Great Heck Rail Crash: Countdown To A Tragedy (BBC Radio York) In 2011 BBC Radio York's news team won the Gillard award for Original Journalism. The awards are given out each year and are open to the entire BBC local radio network. In 2012, the flagship breakfast show, ''Adam Tomlinson at Breakfast'', was nominated for a Sony award for Breakfast Show of the Year.Radio Today
/ref> In 2013, presenter Jonathan Cowap won Gold at the annual Frank Gillard Awards for Best ''Hotseat'' interview. In 2014, Gillard Gold Award for Faith-based programming In 2016 ''Georgey at Breakfast'' won Best Breakfast Show at the Local Radio Awards


References


External links


BBC Radio York

Media UK - BBC Radio York





Acklam Wold transmitter.

Fulford transmitter.

Olivers Mount transmitter.



Woolmoor transmitter.
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