BBC Radio Cleveland

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BBC Radio Cleveland is the BBC Local Radio service for the English areas of Teesside, County Durham and some of North Yorkshire. Launched on 31st December1970 as Radio Teesside, it now broadcasts from its studios in Middlesbrough on 95.0 (Bilsdale Moor), 95.8 (Whitby) FM and DAB. It became known as Radio Cleveland on 1 April 1974, when the county of Cleveland was formed, and moved to new offices in 1983. On April 1 1996, the county of Cleveland split into Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland. These four boroughs along with nearby Darlington now form the governmental sub-region of Tees Valley. Also included in the main listening area is the Army's main garrison at Catterick Garrison, which is also included in the transmission area of Radio York on 104.3FM. The DAB signals come from the EMAP Digital Teesside 11B multiplex at Eston Nab (near the A174 road) and Brusselton (near Shildon between the A68 and A6072).

The signal on 95FM is relatively strong and comes from the 900ft Bilsdale transmitter on the North York Moors. This transmits the main television signals for Teesside and North Yorkshire, and national radio frequencies, as well as the commercial stations 96.6 TFM on 96.6FM, 100-102 Century FM on 100.7FM and Galaxy 105-106 on 106.4FM. Radio Cleveland has greater coverage than these independent stations. The Whitby transmitter also has television, national radio, and the independent station Yorkshire Coast Radio on 103.1FM. Whitby is actually in North Yorkshire. Radio York's coastal transmitter is at Scarborough.

Until late 2005, the station used to combine its evening output with BBC local radio in north England, namely Radio Newcastle and Radio Cumbria. Now it makes home-grown produce. [Bruce Edwards] starts the day's broadcasts at 5am. From 7 - 9am, it's the breakfast show with [Neil Green]. The [Matthew Davies] show is from 9am - 12pm. [John Foster] is from 12 - 3pm. [Tim Ellingford] is from 3 - 5pm. Katherine Hannah has Drivetime from 5 - 7pm. The evening programmes now share some similarities with those of Radio York. From 10pm - 1am, [James Watt] has the late night show. Watty also has his Big Night In show on Saturday evenings and a lunchtime Saturday show on Radio York.

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