BBC Radio Leeds

BBC Radio Leeds

City	Leeds
Broadcast area	West Yorkshire
Slogan	Your station for Yorkshire
Frequency	FM: 92.4, 95.3, 102.7, 103.9 MHz MW: 774 kHz DAB: Digital Radio Freeview: Channel 719
First air date	24 June 1968
Format	Local news, talk and music
Language(s)	English
Owner	BBC Local Radio, BBC Yorkshire
Website	BBC Radio Leeds

BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.

Frequencies

BBC Radio Leeds broadcasts from studios at St. Peters Square in Leeds on 92.4 (Holme Moss), 95.3 (Luddenden, two miles west of Halifax & Wharfedale, two miles north of Otley), 102.7 (Keighley, on Rombalds Moor near Riddlesden) 103.9 (Beecroft Hill, in Bramley near Leeds) FM, 774 (New Farnley, near the A58) AM and DAB. BBC Radio Leeds is also available on Freeview Channel 719

Transmitters

BBC Yorkshire studios on St Peters Square in Leeds. BBC Radio Leeds is broadcast from here.

Initially, Radio Leeds had a low powered transmitter in Meanwood Park, on 94.6 MHz.^[1] This was at a time when VHF receivers were not widespread, and the station covered Leeds exclusively (and was funded by Leeds City Council, rather than the licence fee) instead of West Yorkshire as a whole.

The main VHF/FM transmitter moved to Holme Moss on 92.4 MHz, covering most of West Yorkshire. Unusually, this transmitter also transmits neighbouring services Radio Manchester and Radio Sheffield from separate directional aerials on the mast.

Radio Leeds is also carried on the Wharfedale and Luddenden relay transmitters on 95.3 MHz, from Keighley on 102.7 and from Beecroft Hill (West Leeds) on 103.9 MHz to fill in areas which are screened from Holme Moss by the topology of the area. The medium wave service on 774 kHz is transmitted from Farnley (also known as Leeds MF). The MW service was added when the BBC Radio Leeds service area was expanded to cover the whole of West Yorkshire.

Since 2001, BBC Radio Leeds has also been carried on the Bauer Leeds DAB multiplex, and since October 2002, on the Bradford & Huddersfield Multiplex. Live streaming is available from the station's website.

Studios

Along with BBC Yorkshire's television output, the station moved in 2004 from the old studios on Woodhouse Lane to a new broadcasting centre in St Peter's Square, near the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Until 2012, the station also ran offices and studios at the National Media Museum in Bradford, where the public could see programmes being broadcast. Radio Leeds also operated district newsrooms and contribution studios in Wakefield, at Dean Clough in Halifax and at Huddersfield Town Hall.

In 2016 BBC Radio Leeds opened an office and studio in the Horton building at the University of Bradford.

Programming

The majority of the station's programming is produced and broadcast from Leeds, including the networked evening shows for BBC Local Radio 'Georgey Tonight' on weekday evenings (produced independently by Wire Free Productions) and regional programming simulcast on BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

The station's presenters include Liz Green, Richard Stead, Andrew Edwards, Gayle Lofthouse, Georgey Spanswick, Russell Walker, Paul Hudson, Johnny I'Anson, Nick Ahad.

During the station's overnight downtime, BBC Radio Leeds simulcasts BBC Radio 5 Live (weekdays from 1:00am–5:00am and weekends from 1:00am–6:00am).

Sports coverage

A BBC Radio Leeds vehicle as seen at Headingley during a one-day cricket match in 2009.

BBC Radio Leeds broadcasts commentaries on many Football and Rugby League games involving Leeds United, Bradford City, Huddersfield Town, and a number of Rugby League teams including Leeds Rhinos, Bradford Bulls, Huddersfield Giants, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and Castleford Tigers. Rugby Union with Yorkshire Carnegie and coverage of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in all formats.

BBC Radio Leeds is the only station in West Yorkshire that covers all home and away live match commentaries on Leeds United, Huddersfield Town and Bradford City

Management

Managing Editor: Sanjiv Buttoo

Assistant Editor: Layla Painter

News Editor: Michael Henderson

Sports Editor: Gareth Jones

References

↑ "VHF Broadcast Re-planning". Ofcom.org.uk. 8 January 2002. Retrieved 14 July 2015.

External links

BBC Local Radio
East	BBC Essex Radio Cambridgeshire Radio Norfolk Radio Northampton Radio Suffolk Three Counties Radio
East Midlands	Radio Derby Radio Leicester Radio Nottingham
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire	Radio Humberside Radio Lincolnshire
North West	Radio Lancashire Radio Manchester Radio Merseyside
North East and Cumbria	BBC Tees BBC Newcastle Radio Cumbria
South East	Radio Kent BBC Surrey BBC Sussex
South	Radio Berkshire Radio Oxford Radio Solent
London	Radio London
South West and the Channel Islands	Radio Cornwall Radio Devon Radio Guernsey Radio Jersey
West	Radio Bristol Radio Gloucestershire BBC Somerset BBC Wiltshire
West Midlands	BBC WM BBC Coventry & Warwickshire BBC Hereford and Worcester Radio Shropshire Radio Stoke
Yorkshire	Radio Leeds Radio Sheffield Radio York
Former stations	Dorset FM Radio Durham Southern Counties Radio Thames Valley FM

Radio stations in West Yorkshire, England
Longwave AM stations	198 (BBC Radio 4) 252 (RTÉ Radio 1)
Mediumwave AM Stations	666 (BBC Radio York) 774 (BBC Radio Leeds) 828 (Radio Aire 2) 909/693 (BBC Radio 5 Live) 1089/1053 (talkSPORT) 1215 (Absolute Radio) 1278/1530 (Pulse 2) 1368 (Radio Jcom)
FM stations	89.3 (BBC Radio 2) 91.5 (BBC Radio 3) 92.4/95.3/102.7/103.9 (BBC Radio Leeds) 93.7 (BBC Radio 4) 96.3 (Radio Aire) 96.7 (Phoenix FM) 97.2/102.6/107.1 (Stray FM) 97.5 and 102.5 (Pulse 1) 98.9 (BBC Radio 1) 101.1 (Classic FM) 101.8 (Branch FM) 103.2 (Sunrise Radio) 103.5 (Drystone Radio) 105.1/105.6 (Capital) 106.2 (Heart) 106.6 (BCB) 106.8 (Ridings FM) 107.3 (Fever FM) 107.4 (Tempo FM)
United Kingdom radio markets Aberdeen Glasgow London Liverpool Manchester Northern Ireland South West England West Midlands West Yorkshire Worcester See also: List of radio stations in the United Kingdom

Coordinates: 53°47′50.6″N 1°32′01.8″W / 53.797389°N 1.533833°W / 53.797389; -1.533833

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