City | Nottingham |
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Broadcast area | Nottinghamshire |
Frequency | 95.1 MHz (Newark) 95.5 MHz (Mansfield) 103.8 MHz (Nottingham) DAB: 12C (NOW Nottingham) Freeview: 720 |
RDS | BBC NOTTM |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Format | Local news, talk and music |
Ownership | |
Owner | BBC Local Radio, BBC East Midlands |
History | |
First air date | 31 January 1968 |
Former frequencies | 1584 MW |
Links | |
Website | BBC Radio Nottingham |
BBC Radio Nottinghamshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Nottinghamshire.
It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on London Road in Nottingham city centre.
According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 193,000 listeners and a 7.7% share as of September 2021.[1]
Radio Nottingham is broadcast on three FM frequencies:
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 Leicester.
Since 30 April 2004, the station has been available on DAB from the NDEM (NOW Digital East Midlands) Nottingham 12C multiplex from Waltham (main signal and in Leicestershire), Mapperley Ridge and Fishponds Hill (since July 2006).
In addition, BBC Radio Nottingham also broadcasts on Freeview TV channel 720 in the BBC East Midlands region and streams online via BBC Sounds.
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.[2]
North Nottinghamshire, covering the district of Bassetlaw including the towns of Retford and Worksop, is officially covered by the FM, DAB and Freeview signals carrying BBC Radio Sheffield although editorially, it is BBC Radio Nottingham which covers news for this area via its radio and Internet news and social media channels, despite the area being outside the official transmission coverage area for BBC Radio Nottingham, though FM and to a lesser extent, DAB and Freeview reception is possible in this area.
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 BBC Radio WM. 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 BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio London.
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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 Nottingham Trent University 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 (shopping) Centre.
BBC Radio Nottingham faces local competition from the regional commercial stations Gem 106 and 106.6 Smooth Radio, which are broadcast from Nottingham-based studios to the wider East Midlands. Trent FM, Nottingham's heritage commercial radio station, was merged with Leicester Sound and Ram FM in January 2011 to form a regional station Capital FM East Midlands, which carries a mix of local and networked output. In the Mansfield area commercial station Mansfield 103.2 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.
Coordinates: 52°56′59″N 1°08′23″W / 52.94974°N 1.13985°W / 52.94974; -1.13985