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BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, while its sister station 1Xtra plays black contemporary music, including hip hop and R&B.
BBC Radio Surrey: Surrey, North East Hampshire and North Sussex: 104.0 (Reigate, Redhill and Crawley) 104.6 : 10C 722 BBC Radio Sussex: Sussex: 95.0 (Peacehaven, Newhaven and Seaford) 95.1 95.3 (Brighton and Hove, Shoreham-by-Sea and Worthing) 104.5 (East Sussex and Haywards Heath) 104.8 (West Sussex) 10B 720 BBC Radio Tees
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 ...
BBC Radio 1: BBC 24 hours 10803 H 22000 5/6 0137 701 BBC Radio 1Xtra: BBC 24 hours 10803 H 22000 5/6 0102 702 BBC Radio 2: BBC 24 hours 10803 H 22000 5/6 0103 703 BBC Radio 3: BBC 24 hours 10788 V 22000 5/6 0131 708 BBC Radio 4 Extra: BBC 24 hours 10788 V 22000 5/6 0104 704 BBC Radio 4 FM: BBC 24 hours 10788 V 22000 5/6 0143 710 BBC Radio 4 LW ...
Previously, Radio 1 had 'borrowed' BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies for approximately 24 hours each week, gradually reducing at the end of the 1980s until the final 'borrow' took place in March 1990, five months before Radio 2 became the BBC's first FM-only service when on 27 August 1990, BBC Radio 5 began broadcasting on Radio 2's MW frequencies.
BBC Radio services are broadcast on various FM and AM frequencies, DAB digital radio and live streaming on BBC Sounds, which is available worldwide. They are also available on digital television in the UK, and archived programmes are available for 30 days or more after broadcast on BBC Sounds; many shows are available as podcasts.
In the UK, as well as on Freeview, satellite and cable services, the BBC's licence-funded television channels and their programmes can be watched live and on demand via BBC iPlayer. They can also be seen in Ireland and some parts of mainland Europe.
On 17 April 1966, it became the first BBC transmitter to broadcast in stereo, with regular stereo broadcasts on the Third Programme from July 1966. On 18 December 1970, it began broadcasting Radio Medway (now Radio Kent) on 97.0 MHz. Wrotham was one of two VHF transmitters identified as BBC network centres in the event of a nuclear strike on ...