| City of license | Hull |
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| Broadcast area | East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire |
| Slogan | Across Northern Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire |
| 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 | 13.5% (March 2011, [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]
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It began broadcasting in 1971 from studios above a post office on Chapel Street, three years before the county of Humberside was created: It actually outlived the county as Humberside was abolished in 1996.
The first Station Manager was John Cordeaux and the Programme Organiser was David Greddington (later also presented a late night Saturday programme). The first team of presenters included Fiona Cowan (Breakfast), Robin Pulford (who went on to present the very first phone in programme on the station - Countywide), Paul Heiney, Ian Hunter, David Eggleston, Jill Ward, John Withington (news and sport), Keith Barnwell, Al Gilyon and Charles Levitt (News).
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 did not 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.
In 2004 the station moved to a new digital broadcast centre located at Queen's Gardens in Hull, where it was joined by a full TV operation, supporting Look North.
In 1995 it won a Sony gold in the popular music programme category, and Mike Hurley won the 1986 Sony for local radio personality. In May 2011 the sports team of David Burns, John Tondeur, Matt Dean, Mike White and John Anguish won a Sony bronze award in the best sports programme category for their coverage of Grimsby Town's relegation.
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 presented her weekday morning programme until its axing in June 2011.[2]
BBC Radio Humberside broadcasts to East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire on 95.9 FM (High Hunsley), 1485 AM (Paull, east of 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), 105 Capital FM on 105.8 FM and BBC National DAB (since 20 April 2006).
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]
In the past BBC Radio Humberside have used David Arnold Music for their Jingles. The first package was written by Paul Hart and performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As of August 2005, the station began using a custom made package featuring the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, it was produced by S2blue in Staffordshire. 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 were 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. In 2010 the idents package was completely refreshed by S2Blue, introducing new rhythm tracks to the 2005 package, new instrumentation across the whole set and a raft of new cuts, all keeping the same memorable logo.[4]
| Time | Main presenter(s)/programme | Location |
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| 0100 – 0500 | BBC Radio 5 Live: Up All Night | London |
| 0500 - 0600 | Steve Redgrave | Hull |
| 0600 - 0900 | Andy Comfort | |
| 0900 - 1200 | David Burns | |
| 1200 - 1400 | Peter Levy | |
| 1400 - 1700 | Phil White | |
| 1700 - 1800 | Adam Wild | |
| 1800 - 1900 | Sportstalk | |
| 1900 - 2200 | James Hoggarth | |
| 2200 - 0100 | Georgey Spanswick | Leeds |
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