BBC Radio Nottingham is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Nottinghamshire. It broadcasts on FM,

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, digital TV and via

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from studios on London Road in Nottingham city centre. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 153,000 listeners and a 4.5% share as of September 2022.

Transmission frequencies

Radio Nottingham is broadcast on three FM frequencies: * 103.8 to Nottingham and south Nottinghamshire, from Mapperley Ridge in north Nottingham * 95.5 to

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from Fishponds Hill * 95.1 to

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from Beacon Hill (since January 2004) The Mansfield signal is strong enough to be heard as far north as Scunthorpe, far outside Nottinghamshire. The Nottingham signal may be heard as far south as

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. Since 30 April 2004, the station has been available on

from the NDEM (NOW Digital East Midlands) Nottingham 12C multiplex from Waltham (main signal and in

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), Mapperley Ridge and Fishponds Hill (since July 2006). In addition, BBC Radio Nottingham also broadcasts on

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TV channel 720 in the

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region and streams online via

. The station used to broadcast AM signals on 1584 kHz Medium Wave, from Clipstone, near Mansfield, until 25 January 2018 when the transmitter was turned off. This followed a trial, to determine if listeners would miss or complain about the loss of services on medium wave, from 17 August to 24 September 2012 when BBC Radio Nottingham stopped broadcasting its normal programmes on medium wave, instead directing listeners to FM or DAB. North Nottinghamshire, covering the district of

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including the towns of Retford and Worksop, is officially covered by the signals carrying BBC Radio Sheffield, although editorially, news for this area is covered by BBC Radio Nottingham, and FM reception (and to a lesser extent DAB and Freeview) is possible in these areas.

Programming

Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's Nottingham studios from 6am – 10pm on Mondays – Thursdays and from 6am – 1am on Fridays – Sundays. On Monday – Thursday nights, the 10pm – 1am late show, originates from

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. At weekends, the station's evening output is simulcast with BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Leicester. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Nottingham simulcasts overnight programming from

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and

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Former notable presenters

* Dennis McCarthy, who continued broadcasting on the station – despite falling ill – until the afternoon he died. *

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began his radio career here where he worked for four years in 1982, moving to

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in May 1986 * Matthew Bannister, former late night host on

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, worked as a reporter in 1978 *Mansfield's Richard Bacon began his broadcasting career at BBC Radio Nottingham *Comedian

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had a weekly show in the late 1980s for a short time *

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worked on the station in the late 1980s. He went on to be the Group Programme Director for

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Surrounding areas

The nearest BBC TV news is East Midlands Today, who share the studios on ''London Road'' ( A60) in Nottingham with the BBC Radio Nottingham team. The studio used to be in a building (York House) near the Victoria Centre on Mansfield Road before 1998. That building was then used by

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as the Centre for Broadcast Journalism as the base for the Nottingham Trent International College. York House was demolished in May 2015 to make way for proposed future extensions to the Victoria Centre, however a block of student flats were instead built on the former site. BBC Radio Nottingham faces local competition from the regional commercial stations

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and

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, which are broadcast from Nottingham-based studios to the wider East Midlands.

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, Nottingham's heritage commercial radio station, was merged with Leicester Sound and Ram FM in January 2011 to form a regional station Capital East Midlands, which carries a mix of local and networked output. In the Mansfield area commercial station

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exists, also transmitted from Fishponds Hill. Listeners north of Worksop and Retford, are catered for by BBC Radio Sheffield broadcasting on 104.1FM from the Holme Moss transmitter.

References

Audio clips

First words of Radio Nottingham in January 1968

Fire eating vicar

2001 News jingle

Video clips

Recording the jingles at S2 Blue in Leek
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