is the
BBC Local Radio service for the
English County of
Lincolnshire —apart from the northern parts of the county, which are covered by
BBC Radio Humberside . It broadcasts from its studios near Newport Arch in
Lincoln on 94.9 (whole of the county) and 104.7 (
Grantham )
FM , 1368 (Swan Pool, west Lincoln)
AM and online through its website.
Its managing editor is
Charlie Partridge .
The main signal on 94.9 FM comes from the
Belmont Transmitter near
Donington On Bain in the north of the county, which is the tallest mast in
Europe , although the MW signal comes from Lincoln. The FM signal is not very clear in the south of the county, leaving only the MW frequency. Only north of Lincoln is the FM frequency reasonably clear. The Grantham signal, from a site just south of the town, is weak. It was the only local radio station in Lincolnshire until 1992, when
Lincs FM began (it has since expanded its company) which is also broadcast from Belmont.
With the station's transmitter being the highest in Europe, coverage of the station spans nearby counties as well, and the station can be heard on the
M1 from
Mansfield all the way up to
Barnsley . The south-west of the county can also receive
Radio Leicester on 104.9FM.
- Martin Daniels
- Maria Richmond
- Dave Bussey
- Veronica Capaldi
- Michael Hortin
- Dylan Roys
- Melvyn Prior
- Les Sheehan
- Alan Stennett
- Rob Underwood
- Rod Whiting
- Nick Wilmshurst
- William Wright
Launched in November (BBC Radios
Derby ,
Nottingham and
Leicester ). Each morning, Dylan reads out people's favourite ''slap up breakfast'' recipes. From 6.35am, after the sport report, he asks listeners the name of a distorted version of an old TV theme in ''What's That Flaming Row''. He teaches at an infants school near
Gainsborough .
At 3.30pm each weekday, Melvyn Prior talks to Lincolnshire ex-pats around the world.
Rod Whiting presents the Breakfast Show from 7am (Dylan Roys is only heard until 6am in the other East Midlands counties).
William Wright hosts the Drivetime programme from 4 - 7pm.
Late night weekday programmes are networked across the ,
Shropshire &
Stoke also broadcast this programme.
Agricultural news has a half hour specialist show, Lincolnshire Farming hosted by
Alan Stennett , from 5.30pm on Fridays and 7.30am on Sundays. On Friday nights, a
youth magazine show , the is presented by
Nick Wilmshurst and the youth team.
Amongst its claims to fame are that it helped launch the careers of:
- the comedian Boothby Graffoe who presented a two hour programme on Friday evenings on the station, and briefly on Radio Nottingham, in the late 1980s.
- '' Anglican Water'' - a more religious connection to Anglian Water ?
- '' Grantham, near Lincolnshire'' (from a traffic report) - has Grantham deserted the county?
Like a feature of all East Midlands local BBC radio stations, the station works with local job centres all over the county to publicise current vacancies. BBC local radio further south of the Midlands, for their own reasons, do not have this service.
With so many
RAF stations in the county, and historical airfields, there is no outward recognition of this in the station's programming.
In October 2005, it presided over the creation of a new
flag for Lincolnshire.
It has assisted with broadcasts by the
University Of Lincoln 's radio station
Siren FM , which included allowing use of the
Belmont transmitter .
The text number is 07786 201949.
