BBC Radio Foyle
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| City | Derry |
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| Broadcast area |
County Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
| Frequency |
Freeview: 720 (NI only) Freesat: 717 Sky: 0152 (NI only) Virgin Media: 933 Online: [1] |
| First air date | 11 September 1979 |
| Format | News, Music, Sport |
| Owner |
BBC, BBC Northern Ireland |
| Webcast | WMA |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 55°00′20″N 7°19′33″W / 55.005512°N 7.325885°W
BBC Radio Foyle (Irish: BBC Raidió Feabhail) is a BBC Northern Ireland local radio station, serving County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It is named after the River Foyle which flows through Derry, the city where the station is based. The station broadcasts from BBC's Northland Road studios on 93.1 FM and 792 MW in Derry, County Londonderry. There is also a small television studio based there used for interviews with the interviewee sitting in front of a CSO screen which normally has a live view of Derry.
It is an opt-out from BBC Radio's main Northern Ireland service, BBC Radio Ulster. BBC Radio Foyle's weekday schedule begins at 7:30am and continues until 5:00pm.
From 0700 until 1600, BBC Radio Foyle broadcasts hourly news summaries.
The Sean Coyle Show broadcast between 10.30am-12pm on weekday mornings is broadcast on both Radio Foyle and Radio Ulster from Radio Foyle's studios. In 2013 Radio Foyle opted out of the last half-hour of the Nolan show to broadcast Pure Culture as part of the 2013 City of Culture
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