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Between 17 January 1991 and 2 March 1991 FM broadcasts were replaced by a continuous news service devoted to the Gulf War, Radio 4 News FM, with the main Radio 4 service transferring to long wave. Before this, Radio 4's FM frequencies had occasionally been used for additional news coverage, generally for live coverage of statements and debates ...
When Coalition forces began military operations against Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, the BBC discontinued to broadcast usual mixed schedule on Radio 4's FM frequencies and replaced it with a rolling news service known by the emergency staff as Scud FM, [5] named after "Saddam Hussein's most notorious weapon" was the Russian-made missile in which Iraq was firing at ...
BBC Radio 4: C224 80-128 kbit/s Mono / joint stereo News, drama and speech 92.5 - 96.1 MHz 103.5 - 104.9 MHz 198 LW BBC Radio 5 Live: C225 64-80 kbit/s Mono: Live news and sport 693, 909, 990 kHz and BBC Local Radio overnight BBC Radio 6 Music: C22B 128 kbit/s Joint stereo Alternative music — BBC Radio 1Xtra: C22A 128 kbit/s Joint stereo
Former frequencies BBC Radio Leeds 24 June 1968 West Yorkshire: Leeds — 92.4 95.3 102.7 103.9 12D 11B 719 FM 94.6 MHz; MW 774 kHz (1972 - 1 Jun 2021) BBC Radio Sheffield 15 November 1967 South Yorkshire Northern Derbyshire: Sheffield — 104.1 88.6 94.7 11C 734 FM 95.0 MHz; MW 1035 kHz (1972 - 27 May 2021) BBC Radio York 4 July 1983 North ...
The pips are available to BBC radio stations every fifteen minutes, but, except in rare cases, they are only broadcast on the hour, usually before news bulletins or news programmes. Normally, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the pips every hour except at 18:00 and 00:00 (at the start of the Six O'Clock News and Midnight News respectively), and at 22:00 on ...
There is widespread opposition to the BBC's plans to launch a rolling news service on Radio 4’s long wave frequency and the proposals are dropped. A new news and sport service BBC Radio 5 Live launches the following year. 18 December – BBC 2 broadcasts the Arena special "Radio Night", an ambitious simulcast with BBC Radio 4. [35] 1994
These services (Channel 4, Channel 4 +1, E4, E4 +1, More4, Film4) provided for the Sky platform with commercials directed at the Ireland advertising region are encrypted and require a subscription. Therefore, the frequencies of these services are not included in this list. UltraHD: An ultra HD receiver is required.
The station was initially launched as BBC 7 on 15 December 2002 by comedian Paul Merton.The first programme was broadcast at 8 p.m. and was simulcast with Radio 4. [5] The station, referred to by the codename 'Network Z' while in development, was named without the word 'Radio' to reflect the station's presence on the internet and on digital television in addition to radio.