BBC Radio Stoke
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| City | Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Broadcast area | North & Mid Staffordshire, north east Shropshire & south Cheshire |
| Frequency | RDS: BBCStoke, 94.6MHz, 104.1MHz, 1503kHz, DAB Digital Radio, Online |
| First air date | 14 March 1968 |
| Format | Local news, talk and music |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 8.8% (June 2015, [1]) |
| Owner |
BBC Local Radio, BBC Midlands BBC North West |
| Website | BBC Radio Stoke |
BBC Radio Stoke is a BBC Local Radio station in England, for the area of Mid and North Staffordshire, north east Shropshire and South Cheshire. The station began broadcasting programmes on 14 March 1968 as BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent.
Both of the English counties the station covers have no BBC local radio station for their whole area. In Staffordshire, the south is covered by BBC WM, east by BBC Radio Derby and the west by BBC Radio Shropshire. In Cheshire, north-western areas are served by BBC Radio Merseyside and the north-east by BBC Radio Manchester.
The station broadcasts from its studios on Cheapside in Hanley, the biggest of the six towns the make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent. There are also studios and offices in Crewe, Leek and Stafford. The station used the frequencies of 94.6 MHz and 104.1 MHz FM, 1503 kHz medium wave, and is also available on the UTV-Bauer DAB Digital Radio Multiplex, and online.
The Managing Editor since 2012 is Gary Andrews. He joined from BBC Radio Derby in Derby where he was Assistant Editor.
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The 140 ft Alsagers Bank transmitter is two miles west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, close to the M6. Stations broadcast from it can be clearly heard in most parts of northern Birmingham, and along the M6 from the M54 junction to Skelmersdale. The transmitter also carries Signal 1 (a commercial station owned by UTV), BBC National DAB and Digital One.
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