BBC Radio Shropshire is the BBC's local radio station serving Shropshire. It broadcasts on FM,

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, digital TV and via

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from studios on Boscobel Drive in

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. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 61,000 listeners and a 6.6% share as of September 2022.

Transmitters

The 96 MHz FM signal from The Wrekin is the strongest, and can be heard from outside the county, especially along the M5 and M6 near Birmingham, as well as into western

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, southern

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and Wrexham. The other transmitters (on Black Hill near

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, on Hazler Hill near

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, and in Mortimer Forest near Ludlow) have a much weaker signal only heard up to about away. These three transmitters are for broadcasting to the south of the county, which has a hilly terrain that reduces the effectiveness of FM transmissions. The Wrekin transmitter also broadcasts the commercial station Free Radio Black Country & Shropshire on 103.1 MHz FM, Digital One, the MXR West Midlands 12A multiplex and BBC National DAB. The transmitters also broadcast television, and Ludlow has national radio frequencies. DAB signals started on 31 January 2001 from the NOW Digita
Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury and Telford 11B
multiplex. This also includes

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and originates from the Wrekin and Turners Hill (near Rowley Regis). In addition, BBC Radio Shropshire also broadcasts on Freeview 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 Shrewsbury studios from 6am – 10pm each day. The station's late show, airing from 10pm-1am, originates from

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in Birmingham. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Shropshire simulcasts overnight programming from

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and

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Presenters

Notable current presenters include: * Jim Hawkins (Weekday daytime) * Andrew Marston (''BBC Music Introducing'') *Ryan Kennedy(Friday afternoon, Saturday, Sunday morning)

Notable former presenters

* Tim Smith (now on

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) * Ian Skelly (now on

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) * Sybil Ruscoe (previously on

and BBC Radio 1) * Eleanor Oldroyd (previously on

and BBC Radio 1)

References

External links

BBC Radio Shropshire

Media UK – BBC Radio Shropshire

Clun transmitter

Hazler Hill transmitter

Ludlow transmitter

Turners Hill (Digital)

Wrekin transmitter

Audio clips

Test Transmission Audio

2002 jingle

Launch Audio
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