BBC Radio Nottingham

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BBC Radio Nottingham

Broadcast area	Nottinghamshire
Frequency	FM: 95.1 MHz 95.5 MHz 103.8 MHz MW: 1584 kHz DAB: NOW Nottingham
First air date	31 January 1968
Format	Mixed Format
Audience share	13.0% (September 2007, [1])
Owner	BBC Local Radio

BBC Radio Nottingham is a BBC Local Radio station serving the English county of Nottinghamshire. It broadcasts on FM, AM, and digital DAB radio from studios located on London Road in Nottingham city centre.

In the June 2006 release of the RAJAR radio listening figures, BBC Radio Nottingham recorded 168,000 listeners in a Total Survey Area of 737,000 adults, giving it an audience reach of 23%. It has a market share of 11.9%.

1 Transmission frequences
- 1.1 Daily Schedule
2 Local Football
3 Former Presenters
4 Surrounding areas
5 Trivia
6 External links
- 6.1 Audio clips
- 6.2 Video clips

Radio Nottingham is broadcast on three FM frequencies:

103.8 to Nottingham and south Nottinghamshire, from Mapperley Ridge in north Nottingham.
95.5 to Mansfield from Fishponds Hill
95.1 to Newark from Beacon Hill (since January 2004).

The Mansfield signal is strong enough to be heard as far north as Scunthorpe, far outside Nottinghamshire. Almost as powerful, the Nottingham signal may be heard as far south as Leicester.

The station broadcasts AM signals on 1584 kHz Medium Wave, from Clipstone, near Mansfield.

Since 30 April 2004, the station has been available on DAB from the NDEM (NOW Digital East Midlands) Nottingham 12C multiplex from Waltham (main signal and in Leicestershire), Mapperley Ridge and Fishponds Hill (since July 2006).

In addition, the station is transmitted via its website, using Real Player.

From 5am until 6am is the Early Show, presented by Dylan Roys. At 6am, Andy Whittaker presents the Breakfast Show until 9am. From 9am until 12pm is the Morning Show, presented by Frances Finn, then at 12, Pete Wardman takes over with the Lunchtime Show until 2pm. John Holmes, a Radio Nottingham veteran, presents the Afternoon Show from 2pm until 4.30pm, then Alan Clifford presents the Drivetime show until 7pm.

On Saturday afternoons during the football seasons, Radio Nottingham broadcasts commentary on Nottinghamshire's Football League teams, Nottingham Forest, Notts County and Mansfield Town. On 103.8 FM and 95.1 FM Colin Fray and Forest's European Cup winning captain John McGovern commentate on Reds games. On 95.5 FM and DAB Digital Radio Colin Slater and Dean Yates commentate on the Magpies, and sometimes, on 1584 AM, David Jackson commemtates on the Stags. Otherwise, there are updates from him on Mansfield's match. The programme featuring the games on a Saturday, between 1 and 6pm, is called Matchday, and consequently, the programme for night matches is Matchnight. Every Monday evening from 6 until 7pm, David Jackson presents Matchtalk, the football phone in.

Perhaps the station's most famous presenter is broadcasting legend Dennis McCarthy MBE, who continued broadcasting on the station—despite falling ill—right up until the afternoon he died.
Simon Mayo began his radio career here where he worked for four years in the 1980s, moving to Radio 1 in March 1986.
Matthew Bannister, former late night host on BBC Radio Five Live, worked as a reporter in 1978.
Mansfield's Richard Bacon had his first taste of broadcasting on The Beat.
Comedian Boothby Graffoe had a weekly show in the late 1980s for a short time, before it was taken off because of its graphic and saucy humour.
John Simons worked on the station in the late 1980s. He is now the award-winning Group Programme Director for GMG Radio.

The nearest BBC TV news is East Midlands Today, who share the studios on London Road (A60) in Nottingham with the BBC Radio Nottingham team. The studio used to be in a building near the Victoria Centre on Mansfield Road before 1998.

BBC Radio Nottingham faces local competition from the regional commercial stations Heart 106 and Smooth Radio, which are broadcast from Nottingham based studios to the wider East Midlands. Trent FM is Nottingham's heritage commercial radio station, broadcasting from Mapperley Ridge on 96.2FM and Fishponds Hill on 96.5FM.

Listeners in Nottinghamshire north of Worksop, are catered for by Radio Sheffield broadcasting on 104.1FM from the Holme Moss transmitter and in the Mansfield area commercial station Mansfield 103.2 exists, also transmitted from Fishponds Hill.

The station is credited for the first phone-in on 4 February 1968, in a programme called "What Are They Up To Now?"

The text number for competitions is 07786 201038. The RDS signal for the 103.8FM signal is BBC Nottm, for the other FM signals is BBC Notts.

Not to be confused with University Radio Nottingham.