BBC Radio Stoke

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BBC Radio Stoke is the BBC Local Radio station for the area of North and Mid Staffordshire and South Cheshire in England. It began broadcasting programmes on 14th March 1968 as BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent.

Both of the counties the station covers, have no BBC local radio station for their whole area. In Staffordshire, the South is covered by BBC WM, and the East by BBC Radio Derby. In Cheshire, North-Western areas are served by BBC Radio Merseyside and the North-East by BBC GMR.

BBC Radio Stoke's studios

The station broadcast from their studios in the old Town Hall building on Cheapside in Hanley on 94.6 FM (Alsagars Bank) and 1503 AM (from Sideway) across North Staffordshire and South Cheshire. There is also a small transmitter in Stafford on 104.1 FM. Since 30 April 2004, it has been available on DAB radio across the region.

Contents

1 Transmitters
2 Weekday Schedule
3 Weekend Schedule
4 External links

Transmitters

The 140ft Alsagars Bank transmitter is two miles west of Newcastle under Lyme, close to the M6. Stations broadcast from it can be clearly heard in most parts of northern Birmingham, and along the M6 from the M54 junction to close to the M56 junction. The transmitter also carries Signal One (a commercial station owned by UTV), BBC DAB National and Digital One. DAB signals come the UTV EMAP Digital Stoke-on-Trent 12D multiplex from Alsagers Bank, Pye Green (near Hednesford), Sutton Common (between Congleton and Macclesfield in Cheshire), and Tick Hill (strongest power, south-east of the junction of the A520 and A52 near the Foxfield Steam Railway between Cookshill and Godleybrook). The Sideway transmitter is right next to the A500 D Road, just south of the A50 junction.

Signal 1 (102.6) and Radio Stoke (94.6) are clear in most of the area except in some parts of the Staffordshire Moorlands (Cheadle in particular) and Stafford (which has its own relays). The Stoke Digital multiplex has half the number of stations compared to other areas (BBC Radio Stoke, Signal 1, Signal 2, Kiss 100 and Smash! Hits). UTV own 70% of the multiplex.

Weekday Schedule

5.00am Den Siegertsz

7.00am Breakfast: with Janine Machin

10.00am Stuart George

1.00pm Kevin Fernihough

4.00pm Drivetime: Tim Wedgewood

From 7.05pm to 9.00pm, BBC Radio Stoke airs specialist music programmes and sport:

Monday: The Country Show (networked with BBC Radio Shropshire and BBC Hereford and Worcester) on FM, and The Asian Connection on Medium Wave

Tuesday: Sport

Wednesday: Mell Hill's Jazz Beat (networked with BBC Radio Shropshire and BBC Hereford and Worcester)

Thursday: Subculture (music from unsigned local bands)

'''Friday: Motown

From 9.00pm to midnight, Radio Stoke is networked with BBC local radio stations across the whole of the midlands, with The Late Show broadcast from Nottingham by Rob Underwood.

From midnight until 5.00am (6.00am on Friday night(Saturday morning)), the station relays BBC Radio Five Live.

Weekend Schedule

Saturday:

6.00am Weekend Breakfast: Lamont Howie

9.00am Stuart George

12.00pm Jason Hardy

2.00pm Saturday Sport (in football season)/ Nick Robins (in summer)

From 6.00pm to 1.00am, BBC Radio Stoke networks with BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Hereford and Worcester and until 8.00pm; BBC WM

6.00pm Saturday Gold: John Platt

8.00pm John Hellings' Big Band

10.00pm The Late Show: Keith Middleton

From 1.00am to 6.00am, BBC Radio 5 Live is relayed.

Sunday:

6.00am Weekend Breakfast: Lamont Howie

9.00am In Praise of God (Church Service)

9.30am Nick Robins

12.00pm Terry Walsh

From 3.00pm to 1.00am, BBC Radio Stoke networks with BBC Radio Shropshire and BBC Hereford and Worcester

3.00pm Mike George

6.00pm Sunday Night Rock with Jim Hawkins

8.00pm Sunday Folk with Genevieve Tudor

10.00pm The Late Show: Kieth Middleton

From 1.00am to 5.00am, BBC Radio 5 Live is relayed.

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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