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BBC Radio Solent is the BBC Local Radio service for the Isle of Wight and the English counties of Hampshire and Dorset. Its studios are located in Southampton, in the same purpose built office-block as the BBC South Today news studios.

The station is named for the Solent, the area of sea between Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

It broadcasts on 96.1FM and 999AM for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and 103.8 FM and 1359AM for Dorset, DAB and via its website using Real Player. It began broadcasting on December 31, 1970.

Weekdays start with the Early Morning Music show with Judy Goodlet at 5.00am, Julian Clegg does the breakfast show from 6:30 - 9am. Jon Cuthill hosts from 9 - 12.30pm. (Took over from Nick Girdler.) Charlie Crocker follows in the afternoon (took over from Richard Cartridge) and then Tristan Pascoe is in the chair for Drivetime from 4pm. From 7pm, BBC local radio in the South and South-East share evening programmes, starting with Roger Day, who broadcasts from the studios of Radio Kent and Paul Miller from 10pm - 1am, who is based at the Radio Solent studios. Richard Latto hosts a local overnight show for the station each night after the late show at 1am.

• Kenny Everett once worked at the station around 1972.
• John Piper the mid-morning "Piper's Tune" presenter until the late 1970s.
• Richard Skinner, was a newsreader when the station opened until he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1973.
• Peter White, the BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent, worked regularly for the station since its creation up until November 2006.
• * Nick Girdler who have both presented various radio shows whilst working at the station since the start.
• Carolyn Quinn, the BBC Radio Four news presenter, began started at a BBC Radio Solent training scheme
• Richard Cartridge left January 2007

• Geoff Allen
• Judy Goodlet - Weekdays 5-6:30am
• Julian Clegg - Weekdays 6:30-9am
• Jon Cuthill - Weekdays 9am-12:30pm
• Paul Miller - Weekdays 10pm-1am
• Richard Latto - Tues-Sat 1:00am-5:00am, Sun 1:00am-6:00am, Mon 00:00am-05:00am
• Lucy Warhurst
• Tristan Pascoe - Weekdays 4-7pm
• David Allen
• Tim Daykin
• Mike Powell
• Alison Leslie (Information Exchange)
• Charlie Crocker

• Marcus White
• Zoe Hart
• Joanna Lipsey
• Jill Sainsbury
• Julie Massiter
• Lucy Warhurst
• Brian Smith
• Emily Hudson
• Mike Powell
• Tim Daykin
• Neil Sackley (on the Paul Miller show)

• Mike Powell
• Lena Samuels (also presents DVD reviews for Southern Counties and Production for David Allen)
• Penny Gower
• Richard Jackson
• Helen Wentworth
• Chiara Dodd
• Sam Fraser

• BBC Radio Solent Official Site.
• Media UK - BBC Radio Solent
• History of local radio in Hampshire.
• Old jingle. circa 1993.
• Rowridge mast. 96.1FM Frequency and DAB.
• Bincombe Hill mast. Solent for Dorset: 103.8FM Frequency
• Fareham mast. 999kHZ AM Frequency
• Fern Barrow mast. 1359kHZ AM Frequency
• Richard Cartridge Leaving in 2007 after an "association spanning 35 years".