BBC Radio Oxford

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BBC Radio Oxford is a BBC Local Radio station, which opened on October 29 1970.

On April 9 1996, it was merged with Radio Berkshire to form Thames Valley FM. But this proved unpopular and on February 14 2000 it was launched again as Radio Oxford, although some output is shared with Radio Berkshire, and in the evenings output is shared also with other BBC local radio stations in the South and South-East of England.

Despite the name, the radio station is intended to serve the whole of the county of Oxfordshire, not just the city of Oxford, and the radio station used to play slogans such as "In Oxford, Abingdon and Banbury, it's your voice", or a similar slogan using another three places in the county (not necessarily including Oxford).

In October 2004, BBC Radio Oxford relaunched with a brand-new lineup. It was designed to make the station more upbeat, and appeal more to the younger generations. To help with this, a new sung jingle package was introduced to replace the five-year-old previous one.

List of presenters (taken from official web site, January 2006): Weekdays:

Phil Mercer
Sybil Ruscoe
Danny Cox
Alison Booker
Bill Heine
Paul Miller

Weekends also include:

Richard Allinson
Tony Gillham
Jonathan Hancock
Phil Kennedy
Warren Lee
Bill Rennells
Jerome Sale
Henry Wymbs

Past Presenters

Humphrey Carpenter
Libby Purves
Martin Stanford
Timmy Mallet
Bob Harris
Jon Briggs

Weather Presenters

Helen McKenzie (AM)
Kaye Forster (AM)
Laura Gilchrist (AM)
[Liam Dutton] (AM)
[Sean Batty] (AM)

External links

News readers do the news from the BBC Oxford News room along with Travel. The News/Travel readers include:

Sophie Van Brugen (also south Oxfordshire Reporter)

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BBC Local Radio stations
BBC Radio Berkshire	BBC Radio Bristol	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
BBC Radio Cleveland	BBC Radio Cornwall	BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Radio Cumbria	BBC Radio Derby	BBC Radio Devon
BBC Essex	BBC Radio Gloucestershire	BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Guernsey	BBC Hereford and Worcester	BBC Radio Humberside
BBC Radio Jersey	BBC Radio Kent	BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Leeds	BBC Radio Leicester	BBC Radio Lincolnshire
BBC London 94.9	BBC Radio Merseyside	BBC Radio Newcastle
BBC Radio Norfolk	BBC Radio Northampton	BBC Radio Nottingham
BBC Radio Oxford	BBC Radio Sheffield	BBC Radio Shropshire
BBC Radio Solent	BBC Somerset Sound	BBC Southern Counties Radio
BBC Radio Stoke	BBC Radio Suffolk	BBC Radio Swindon
BBC Three Counties Radio	BBC WM	BBC Radio Wiltshire
BBC Radio York

Former BBC Local Radio stations
BBC Radio Brighton	BBC Radio Bedfordshire	BBC Radio Durham
BBC GLR	BBC GMR	BBC Radio London