BBC Radio Cleveland

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BBC Radio Cleveland is the BBC Local Radio service for the English areas of Teesside, County Durham and some of North Yorkshire. Launched on 31 December 1970 as Radio Teesside, it now broadcasts from its studios in Middlesbrough on 95.0 (Bilsdale West Moor), 95.8 (Whitby) FM and DAB. It became known as Radio Cleveland on 1 April 1974, when the county of Cleveland was formed, and moved to new offices in 1983. On April 1, 1996, the county of Cleveland split into Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland. These four boroughs along with nearby Darlington now form the governmental sub-region of Tees Valley. Also included in the main listening area is the Army's main garrison at Catterick Garrison, which is also included in the transmission area of Radio York on 104.3FM. The station recently announced it was to rebrand itself as BBC Tees, a brand already associated with its Where I Live website and BBC Bus, due to its broadcasting area no longer being associated the name Cleveland.

1 Transmitters
2 Schedule
3 Presenters
4 External links

The signal on 95FM is relatively strong and comes from the 900ft Bilsdale transmitter on the North York Moors, which transmits the main television signals for Teesside and North Yorkshire, and national radio frequencies, as well as the commercial stations 96.6 TFM on 96.6FM, 100-102 Century FM on 100.7FM and Galaxy 105-106 on 106.4FM. Radio Cleveland has greater coverage than these independent stations, and reaches as far south as Doncaster and the north parts of Lincolnshire and interferes with Radio Lincolnshire on 94.9FM. The Whitby transmitter also has television, national radio, and the independent station Yorkshire Coast Radio on 103.1FM. Whitby is actually in North Yorkshire. Radio York's coastal transmitter is at Scarborough. The DAB signals come from the EMAP Teeside 11B multiplex at Eston Nab (near the A174 road) and Brusselton (near Shildon between the A68 and A6072).

You can also get the station in the Teesside, County Durham & North Yorkshire area if you have a DAB radio (the station name will be one of the stations that you can select if you like in the broadcast area.)

If you live outside the Station's catchment area then you can still listen via the internet by going to www.bbc.co.uk/tees and clicking the listen live button.

As with many BBC Radio stations these days, if you miss a programme when it is broadcast live, you can visit the listen again section at www.bbc.co.uk/tees to listen to a particular show. Programmes on this listen again feature include The Matthew Davies Breakfast Show, Saturday Lunch with Neil & Karen, Pure with David Macmillan (alternative music show), Gobstopper with Bob Fischer, Songs From The Shows with Tim Ellingford, Saturday at the Pleasuredome with John Foster & Mark Turnbulls Sunday Breakfast show.

Mark Turnbull starts the weekday schedule at 4am. From 7 - 10am, it's The Matthew Davies Breakfast Show. The Alex Hall Show is from 10am - 1pm. Alex used to do a late-night show in the BBC Yorkshire region before moving back to the region which she grew up in. John Foster is from 1 - 4pm. Neil Green is from 4 - 7pm. From 10pm - 1am James Watt has the late night show. Watty also has his Big Night In show on Saturday evenings.

SATURDAY SCHEDULE
On Saturday morning Julie Donaldson starts the day in her own unique style with Saturday Breakfast from 6am till 9am.

From 9am till noon John Foster presents Saturday at the Pleasuredome.

from noon until 2pm Neil & Karen present Saturday Lunch including 'Its Your Round' the radio pub quiz!

From 2pm till 6 pm Saturday Sport take over. BBC Radio Cleveland have full match commentary on every Middlesbrough Premiership game with Paul Addison & former Boro boy Gary Gill. They also provide un-rivalled coverage of Hartlepool & Darlington with Ivor Nash & Ray Simpson resectively.

From 6pm - 9pm James Watt presents The Big Night In and John Caine brings the day to a close from 9pm until Midnight with The Saturday Rock Show. These programmes are both networked on BBC Radio Newcastle, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Cumbria as well.

SUNDAY SCHEDULE
From Midnight Saturday until 6am Sunday BBC Five Live is broadcast.

Mark Turnbull Sunday Breakfast is from 6am till 9am looking at all aspects of faith in Teesside, County Durham & North Yorkshire.

From 9am till 11am Ken Snowdon presents the dedication show. If you want to give a shoutout for someones Birthday, Anniversary, Christening, Birth, Housemoving etc, Ken is the man to speak to!

Paul Anderson & Mike Hill present the Sunday Supplement from 11am till 1pm.

1pm - 2pm Brigid Press answers gardening queries in Ask About Gardening.

From 2pm till 5pm Colin Bunyan presents Vintage Vinyl

From 5pm till 7pm Tim Ellingford's Songs From The Shows does exactly what it says on the tin.

7pm till 9pm Braithwaite's Country - New and classic country with Paul Braithwaite.

9pm till 10pm Northern Folk - The best folk music from around the region with Alistair Anderson.

10pm till 1am Gerard Robinson with three hours of music and memories.

24 HOURS A DAY
As of Summer 2006 BBC Radio Cleveland is now a 24 hour station from Monday to Friday. Chris Johnson presents an overnight show from 1am until 4am filling in the gap between James Watt & Mark Turnbull that was previously BBC Radio 5 Live.

PRESENTERS

Mark Turnbull
Alex Hall
John Foster
Neil Green
Matthew Davies
Julie Donaldson
James Watt
Chris Johnson
Tim Ellingford
Gerard Robinson
Ken Snowdon
Brigid Press
Paul Anderson
Mike Hill
Bob Fischer
Frank Wappat
Paul Braithwait
John Caine