BBC Radio York
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| City | York |
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| Broadcast area | North Yorkshire |
| Slogan | Loving Life in North Yorkshire |
| Frequency |
FM: 95.5, 103.7, 104.3 MHz MW: 666, 1260 kHz DAB: 10C |
| First air date | 4 July 1983 |
| Format | Local news, talk and music |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 6.4% (July 2014, [1]) |
| Former callsigns | BBC North Yorkshire |
| Owner |
BBC Local Radio, BBC Yorkshire |
| Website | BBC Radio York |
BBC Radio York is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of North Yorkshire. The broadcast studio is in Bootham, York.
The station was launched at 6:30am on 4 July 1983 - a launch featured on the cover of the Radio Times. A year prior to its launch, a temporary AM service was broadcast for coverage of the visit to the city by Pope John Paul II.
BBC Radio York was not the first radio station broadcasting in York. University Radio York, the oldest independent legal radio station, is the University of York's student radio station and before the BBC, URY was named Radio York. The independent commercial rival, Minster FM, began broadcasting on 4 July 1992. Stray FM, the independent station covering the Harrogate and Ripon areas, made its first transmission exactly two years to the day after Minster's launch and eleven years to the day after Radio York's launch.
The first station manager was John Jefferson with the late Tony Fish as Programme Organiser. The original team included David Farwig, Derm Tanner, Andy Joynson, Will Hanrahan, Graham Pass, Andy Hitchcock, Chris Loveder and Chris Choi, Charlotte Counsel, Shirley Lewis and Sandy Barton.
BBC Radio York broadcasts from its studios in York on 95.5 (Olivers Mount, Scarborough), 103.7 (Acklam Wold transmitter near Leavening, midway between York and Malton) and 104.3 (Woolmoor, near Upsall four miles north of Thirsk close to the A19 - for Harrogate, Northallerton and the Yorkshire Dales) FM, 666 (Fulford), 1260 (Row Brow, Scarborough) AM and online from their website.
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