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2BR

Broadcast area	Burnley, Pendle, Hyndburn
Branding	99.8fm 2BR
Slogan	Burnley, Hyndburn & Pendle's 99.8fm 2BR
Frequency	99.8 MHz
First air date	July 25, 2000
Format	Contemporary
Audience share	13.0% (September 2007, [1])
ERP	0.75kW
Owner	Local Radio Company
Webcast	Choice of Streams
Website	http://www.2br.co.uk

2BR is a commercial radio station in East Lancashire. It broadcasts from studios in the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate in Nelson.

The station is broadcast from the Pendle Forest transmitter on Pendle Hill in Newchurch-in-Pendle, near Fence, just 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north-west of the studio.

They play a wide variety of music in line with all radio stations owned by Local Radio Company.

The station provides news and sport updates throughout the day as well as traffic updates. The station is also very proud to provide live commentary of all competitive Burnley F.C. matches both home and away.

1 Programming
2 Schedule
3 Name misnomer
4 External links

[edit] Programming

99.8fm 2br broadcasts live from its own studio's on the lomeshaye business village between 6am-7pm weekdays and on Saturdays between 9am-10pm opting out of network programming between 5pm-8pm for its own 'Party Anthems' show and between 8pm-10pm for 'Asian Beat'. On Sundays Programming is broadcast from its studio's between 10am-2pm before the station goes into network for 'Money on your mobile' (2pm-4pm) and 'Hit40UK' (4pm-7pm)

Until Recently weekend breakfast shows were also broadcast live from the station but as of 10th May 2008 these were scrapped for network programming by station owners TLRC (The Local Radio Company)

[edit] Schedule

Weekdays

6am-10am - Martin Vernon's Breakfast

10am-2pm - Ricky Kirby

2pm-3pm - Non Stop 80's

3pm-7pm - Gemma Baron's Hits n' Headlines Drive

7pm-1am - Various Network Programming

1am-6am - Non Stop 2br

Saturdays

6am-9am - The Weekend Breakfast Show With Danny Matthews

9am-1pm - Martin Vernon

1pm-5pm - 2br Music & Sport with Steve Joy & Dan Jewell

5pm-8pm - Party Anthems with Ryan Smith

8pm-10pm - Asian Beat

10pm-1am - Various Network Programming

1am-6am - Non Stop 2br

Sundays

6am-10am - The Weekend Breakfast Show with Danny Matthews

10am-2pm - Gemma Baron

2pm-4pm - Money On Your Mobile

4pm-7pm - Hit40UK with Luccio

7pm-1am - Various Network Programming

1am-6am - Non Stop 2br

[edit] Name misnomer

Although the station's name refers to the "2 Boroughs" of Burnley and Pendle, the station also covers Hyndburn. Additionally, the station is known colloquially as "2 Bloody Records" owing to its tendency to replay the same music throughout the day, causing once liked songs to lose their appeal^{[citation needed]}.

Broadcasting stations in the United Kingdom do not use callsigns, but as "2" is a prefix assigned by the ITU to callsigns in Great Britain, 2BR is technically a valid radio callsign in the U.K.