2BE was the call sign of the first officialradio station to broadcast inNorthern Ireland. Operated by theBritish Broadcasting Company (later theBritish Broadcasting Corporation), it started transmissions fromBelfast on 15 September 1924 using a wavelength of 435 m (689 kHz). It was originally broadcast from Linenhall Street in Belfast.^[1]

On 20 March 1936 the Belfast transmitter was replaced by a new, more powerful transmitter broadcasting fromLisnagarvey on a wavelength of 307 m (977 kHz),^[2][1] the service having been renamed as theNorthern Ireland Regional Programme on 6 January 1935.

With the resumption of regional broadcasting afterWorld War II, this station became the Northern IrelandHome Service, and laterBBC Radio 4 Northern Ireland. 2BE's successor station today isBBC Radio Ulster.

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