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| Broadcast area | South Yorkshire, northDerbyshire andNorth Nottinghamshire. |
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| Frequencies | FM: 88.6 MHz (Sheffield) FM: 94.7 MHz (Chesterfield andBolsover) FM: 104.1 MHz (Doncaster,Barnsley,Rotherham andNorth Nottinghamshire) DAB: 11C Freeview: 716 |
| RDS | BBC Shef |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Format | Local news, talk and music |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | BBC Local Radio, BBC Yorkshire |
| History | |
First air date | 15 November 1967 |
Former frequencies | 1035 MW |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | Ofcom |
| Links | |
| Website | BBC Radio Sheffield |
BBC Radio Sheffield is theBBC's local radio station servingSouth Yorkshire, northDerbyshire andNorth Nottinghamshire.
It broadcasts onFM,DAB, digital television and viaBBC Sounds from studios on Shoreham Street inSheffield.
According toRAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 147,000 listeners and a 3.7% share as of December 2023.[1]
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BBC Radio Sheffield was the secondBBC local radio station,[2] launching on 15 November 1967 and broadcasting from a large Victorian house in Westbourne Road in theBroomhill area of the city.
Until the mid-1980s, the station was generally on air from the morning until the early evening, with any programming after 6 pm devoted to specialist music and magazines aimed at minority interests and ethnic communities. These programmes did not broadcast all year round. In August 1986, evening programmes began on a permanent basis when the station joined with the other three BBC stations inYorkshire to provide an early evening service of specialist music programmes on weeknights from 6 pm to 7:30 pm, extending a year later to six days a week (Wednesday to Monday) between 7 pm and 9 pm with Tuesdays reserved for local sports coverage. Just under two years later, on 29 May 1989, theBBC Night Network launched, which saw the BBC local radio stations in the North East and Yorkshire broadcasting networked programming every evening from 6:05 pm (6 pm at the weekend) until midnight, extending to 12:30 am in the early 1990s, and to 1 am by the end of that decade.
Spring 1989 also saw BBC Radio Sheffield launchTen-35. This was a weekend evenings service of programmes for the county's ethnic minority communities and was broadcast on the station's MW frequency, hence the name of the strand. Radio Sheffield had provided programmes for the Asian and black communities for many years,[3] but the new service saw the launch of programmes for many other communities. The service was broadcast on Saturday and Sunday evenings between 6 pm and midnight, although the Sunday programming was brought forward to 2:45 pm to 8:30 pm in around 1991 and was renamed asTen-35 Sunday. Over time, the service was dismantled and eventually programming for minority communities was again focused on the county's black and Asian communities.
In March 1982, archiving began of the station's early material, by cataloguing and transferring it toaudio cassette. The first items archived were news reports of the steel strike of 1980. The cassettes and listings, which include news stories and local music, are held at Sheffield City Archives inSheffield.[citation needed] This archiving followed a scheme by Radio Carlisle which covered the October 1957Windscale nuclear accident.[citation needed]
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The 104.1FM signal is broadcast from theHolme Moss transmitter[4] inWest Yorkshire, near the border withDerbyshire, enabling the signal to be clearly heard in northSheffield,Barnsley, northRotherham,Doncaster and parts ofNottinghamshire.
The 88.6 FM signal is broadcast from theCrosspool transmitter[5] on Tapton Hill to serveSheffield and parts of Rotherham. It also broadcastsDAB[6] on 11C multiplex for Sheffield and surrounding areas and it broadcasts DTR[7] forSouth Yorkshire and surrounding areas forFreeview TV channel 716 on UHF 27-522 MHz the BBCA multiplex.
The 94.7 FM signal is broadcast from theChesterfield transmitter atUnstone[8] and serves Derbyshire, parts of Nottinghamshire and the East of South Yorkshire. It broadcasts DAB[9] on 11C multiplex (same asCrosspool transmitter) for the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire area. It also broadcasts DTR[10] for Chesterfield for Freeview TV channel 716 on UHF 26-514 MHz on the BBCA multiplex.
A DAB signal is broadcast from theClifton transmitter[11] (next to theM18 east of Rotherham) to serve Rotherham, Doncaster,Worksop and surrounding areas. Another DAB signal is broadcast fromArdsley transmitter[12] east ofBarnsley to serve Barnsley,Dearne Valley and parts of West Yorkshire. Plus, its DAB signals are also broadcast from theClarborough transmitter nearRetford to cover parts of North Nottinghamshire and strengthen signals from the Clifton transmitter. The three transmitters use theBauer South Yorkshire 11C multiplex (same as Crosspool and Chesterfield transmitters).
TheEmley Moor transmitter[13] broadcasts DTR for Freeview TV channel 716 forYorkshire, Derbyshire and parts ofLincolnshire on UHF 47-682 MHz the BBCA multiplex. Other local TV transmitters such as Crosspool relay their signal from Emley Moor.
The station also streams online viaBBC Sounds.
While the FM, DAB and Freeview transmissions of BBC Radio Sheffield officially cover North Nottinghamshire, including the district ofBassetlaw which includes the towns of Retford and Worksop, editorially, news output is covered byBBC Radio Nottingham via its radio and internet news and social media channels, despite the area being officially outside the coverage area of BBC Radio Nottingham.
In its early years, Radio Sheffield transmitted from Rotherham (Boston Castle) on 95.0 MHz FM. This was discontinued when a powerful transmitter opened atHolme Moss serving much of South Yorkshire on 97.4 MHz, later changing to its current 104.1 MHz (97.4 MHz was then passed toRadio Hallam).
The ownership of FM radios was low when Radio Sheffield began broadcasting on FM only in 1967. However, most people could receiveAM (medium wave (MW) andlong wave (LW)) and, in response to the impending competition of commercial radio which would also broadcast on MW (Radio Hallam started in 1974), Radio Sheffield began transmitting in late 1973 on 1034 kHz (290 metres) MW – this changed to 1035 kHz in 1978. This was broadcast from the Broadfield Road transmitter[14] in Sheffield (behindHeeley swimming baths) and served South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and parts of Lincolnshire and West Yorkshire. The MW broadcasts were discontinued on 27 May 2021.
Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC'sSheffield studios from 6 am to 2 pm each day and for sports coverage.
The station usually broadcasts the whole of the Late Night programme, a programme carried by all BBC local radio stations (except in the case of sports coverage), which is broadcast between 10pm and 1am.
During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Sheffield simulcasts overnight programming fromBBC Radio 5 Live andBBC Radio London.
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