BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3

Broadcast area	United Kingdom
Frequency	FM: 90.2 MHz – 92.6 MHz DAB: 12B Freeview: 703 Freesat: 703 Sky (UK only): 0103 Virgin Media: 903 Virgin Media Ireland: 909
First air date	30 September 1967
Format	Classical, jazz, world music, drama, culture, arts
Language(s)	English
Audience share	1.4% (December 2016, RAJAR – Quarterly Listening)
Owner	BBC
Webcast	Web Stream HTTP progressive Streams Worldwide stream (Shoutcast, 128 Kbps MP3) UK-only stream (Shoutcast, 320 Kbps AAC) HLS Streams Worldwide stream (48 Kbps AAC+) Worldwide stream (96 Kbps AAC+) UK-only stream (128 Kbps AAC) UK-only stream (320 Kbps AAC) HDS Streams Worldwide stream (48 Kbps AAC+)
Website	www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 Song List

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BBC Radio 3 is a British radio network operated by the BBC. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and through its New Generation Artists scheme promotes young musicians of all nationalities. The station is notable for its broadcast of the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama.

Radio 3 won the Sony Radio Academy UK Station of the Year Gold Award for 2009 and was nominated again in 2011.

Radio 3 is the successor station to the BBC Third Programme which began broadcasting on 29 September 1946. The name Radio 3 was adopted on 30 September 1967 when the BBC launched its first pop music station, Radio 1 and rebranded its national radio channels as Radio 1, Radio 2 (formerly the Light Programme), Radio 3, and Radio 4 (formerly the Home Service).

Radio 3 was the overall label applied to the collection of services which had until then gone under the umbrella title of the Third Network, namely:

All these strands, including the Third Programme, kept their separate identities within Radio 3 until 4 April 1970, when there was a further reorganisation following the introduction of the structural changes which had been outlined the previous year in the BBC document Broadcasting in the Seventies.

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