BBC CWR
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| City | Coventry |
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| Broadcast area | Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire |
| Frequency | RDS: BBC C&W, 94.8 MHz, 103.7 MHz, 104.0 MHz, DAB Digital Radio |
| First air date | 17 January 1990 (original) 3 September 2005 (relaunch after ten years of absence) |
| Format | Local news, talk and music |
| Language(s) | English |
| Owner |
BBC Local Radio, BBC West Midlands |
| Website | www |
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire is the BBC Local Radio service serving the City of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire. The station broadcasts on 94.8, 103.7 and 104 MHz FM, DAB Digital Radio and is streamed on the internet via the BBC Website.
Based in the Priory Place Shopping Precinct at the heart of Coventry City Centre, its studio complex is home to radio, online services, an interactive open centre and facilities for regional TV news. It is also the only Coventry local radio station based in the city itself.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire broadcasts local programming from 6am to 7pm every weekday and 6am – 6pm on weekends. It also simulcasts with other BBC Local Radio stations on evenings (both regionally and nationally), and BBC Radio 5 Live overnight.
BBC Local Radio in the 1990s underwent an expansion programme where counties and other areas without a local radio station were identified and five stations were to launch: BBC Radio Surrey, BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Wiltshire Sound and BBC Radio Warwickshire.
The Radio Warwickshire working title was changed to BBC CWR by the time the station launched on 17 January 1990. The name CWR (Coventry and Warwickshire Radio) reflected the wider area that the new station would cover, taking in the city of Coventry with the whole of the county of Warwickshire, which was then also served by BBC Radio WM. The station broadcast from a Victorian-style mansion on Warwick Road, close to Coventry railway station. Smaller studios were located in Atherstone, Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick.
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