BBC Radio Solent

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BBC Radio Solent is the BBC Local Radio service for the Isle of Wight and the English counties of Hampshire and Dorset. Its studios are located in Southampton, in the same building as the BBC South Today news studios.

The station is named for the Solent, the estuary between Southampton/Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

It broadcasts on 96.1 (Rowridge on the Isle of Wight) FM and 999 (Fareham) AM for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and 103.8 (Bincombe Hill, between Dorchester and Weymouth) FM and 1359 (Fern Barrow, close to Bournemouth University) AM for Dorset, DAB and via its website using Real Player. It began broadcasting on December 31 1970.

The Rowridge mast also carries national radio frequencies and TV. Bincombe Hill also carries Wessex FM on 97.2FM. The coverage is weak north of Winchester, and the best coverage over Hampshire comes from Radio Berkshire on 104.1FM.

Julian Clegg does the breakfast show from 6 - 9am. Bald-headed Jon Cuthill hosts from 9 - 12.30pm. Richard Cartridge follows in the afternoon and then Tristan Pascoe is in the chair for Drivetime from 4pm. From 7pm, BBC local radio in the South and South-East share evening programmes, starting with Charlie Crocker, who broadcasts from the studios of Radio Kent and Paul Miller from 10pm - 1am, who is based at the Radio Solent studios.

Kenny Everett once worked at the station around 1972. Other Solent legends include John Piper the mid-morning "Piper's Tune" presenter until the late 1970s, Slyv Willoughby and Nick Girdler (who left in March 2006).

Contents

1 Presenters
2 Newsreaders
3 Weather Presenters
4 External links

Presenters

Judy Goodlet
Julian Clegg
Richard Cartridge
Jon Cuthill
Paul Miller
Lucy Warhurst
Peter White
Pippa Greenwood
Tristan Pascoe
David Allen
Tim Daykin
Mike Powell
Chris Walker

Newsreaders

Fiona Biggs
Marcus White
Joanna Lipsey
Jill Sainsbury
Julie Massiter

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Weather Presenters

Alina Jenkins
Sam Fraser
Caz Perry
Richard Jackson
Helen Wentworth

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External links

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

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