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BBC Radio Humberside
City of license	Hull
Broadcast area	East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Frequency	95.9 MHz, 1485 kHz, DAB Digital Radio
First air date	25 February 1971
Format	Local news, talk and music
Language	English
Audience share	11.5% (December 2009, [1])
Owner	BBC Local Radio, BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Website	BBC Radio Humberside

BBC Radio Humberside is a BBC Local Radio service covering the area of the former English county of Humberside, which was returned to North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire the East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Kingston upon Hull on 1 April 1996.

Simon Pattern is the station's managing editor with Derek McGill as assistant editor.^[1]

History

It began broadcasting in 1971 from studios above a post office on Chapel Street, three years before the county of Humberside was created. Humberside was broken up in 1996. Radio Teesside was created at the same time, which has changed its name twice, and its area has also been split into unitary authorities.

On the first night of broadcasting, many West Yorkshire rugby league fans were disappointed when the relatively powerful High Hunsley transmitter signal was heard instead of Radio Leeds, so all they heard was a commentary of Hull KR v Widnes instead of football. It didn't broadcast on MW (neither did other BBC local stations) until late 1971. In 1979 it stopped broadcasting dedicated agricultural programmes (although East Yorkshire is an agricultural county).

In the 1970s it had the Radio Humberside Handicap horserace at Beverley Racecourse, which became the BBC Radio Humberside Stakes in the 1980s. By the 1990s this included the Martin Plenderleith Conditions Stakes, the Steve Massam Selling Stakes, the Peter Adamson Maiden Auction Stakes, the Charlie Partridge Selling Stakes and the Chris Langmore Handicap that all took place on the same day in early July.

Awards

In 1995 it won a Sony gold in the popular music programme category, and Mike Hurley won the 1986 Sony for local radio personality.

Studio facilities

BBC Radio Humberside has studios at Queen's Court, Queen's Gardens in Hull. Additional studios are located at Victoria Street in Grimsby from where Lara King presents her weekday morning programme.^[2]

Technical

Queen's Gardens building

BBC Radio Humberside broadcasts to East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire on 95.9 FM (High Hunsley), 1485 AM (Paull, east Hull), DAB and the internet using Real Player.

The FM transmitter, between Beverley and South Cave 500 ft. up on the Yorkshire Wolds is quite powerful over the relatively flat surrounding area being heard clearly in most of South Yorkshire as well. The signal reaches right across to the highest point of the M62 near junction 22 with the A672, the highest point of the A66, much of Lincolnshire, and as far south as Nottingham on the M1, near the Trowell service station and Newark. It also broadcasts Viking FM on 96.9 FM (Radio Humberside's old frequency), Galaxy Yorkshire on 105.8 FM and BBC National DAB (since 20 April 2006).

High Hunsley 95.9FM mast

The Paull transmitter also broadcasts Absolute Radio on 1215 MW and TalkSPORT on 1053 MW.

The DAB signals come from the EMAP Humberside 11B multiplex from three transmitters at Cave Wold (most powerful, three miles south of High Hunsley, and a BT microwave transmitter which also has the MXR Yorkshire multiplex), Buckton Barn (Bridlington, also has Yorkshire Coast Radio on 102.4) and Bevan Flats (Grimsby, also transmits Compass FM on 96.4). There is no FM transmitter on the south bank, but there is a DAB transmitter in Grimsby.^[3]

Jingles

In the past BBC Radio Humberside have used David Arnold Music for their Jingles. As of August 2005, the station began using a custom made package featuring the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, it was produced by S2blue in Cheshire. BBC Radio Humberside were responsible for its artistic commissioning and for the eventual shape and construction of the idents. The package was re-sung for BBC Radio Nottingham and the instrumental versions are currently used on BBC Radio Merseyside. The package was topped up in late 2006 to introduce the "Great Place for a Great Station" strap-line and to freshen the set up. In autumn 2008 a further refresh was introduced with new sings for key daytime programmes and presenters.^[4]

Presenters

Current

Former

References

External links

• BBC Radio Humberside
• Buckton Barn (digital)
• Cave Wold (digital)
• High Hunsley transmitter (includes coverage map).
• Paull MW transmitter
• Hull studio building
• Lincolnshire Radio campaign (an anti-Humberside website)

News items

• Guardian November 2006

Audio clips

• Jingle package

Video clips

• Corporate video