BBC Radio Suffolk
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| City | Ipswich |
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| Broadcast area | Suffolk |
| Frequency | 95.5 MHz, 95.9 MHz, 103.9 MHz & 104.6 MHz. 720 Freeview. 10C DAB |
| First air date | 12 April 1990 |
| Format | Local news, talk and music |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 11.7% (June 2012, [1]) |
| Owner |
BBC Local Radio, BBC East |
| Website | www |
BBC Radio Suffolk is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Suffolk, commencing broadcasts on 12 April 1990. Its studios are at Broadcasting House in St Matthews Street, Ipswich. The station broadcasts on 95.5 (Oulton, near Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh), 103.9 (Manningtree) and 104.6 (Great Barton, four miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds near the B1106 and Conyers Green) FM. In 2004, Radio Suffolk was named Station of the Year in the Sony Radio Academy Awards. It is available in parts of Suffolk on DAB 10C and from Sudbury and Tacolneston television transmitters on Freeview, channel 720.
The Manningtree frequency is the strongest. The 154.4 metre (507 ft) antenna mast transmitter is just south of Manningtree, in Essex, and is also one of the BBC Essex MW transmitters. However, the BBC Radio Suffolk broadcasts are directional. It also has Absolute Radio on 1233 kHz, BBC national FM, BBC National DAB and Digital One. The Great Barton transmitter also has Heart FM East Anglia on 96.4FM. The Oulton transmitter also has The Beach on 103.4FM and Digital One (since 16 December 2005). The 95.9FM frequency, from the Aldeburgh mast, is only recent and had to be approved by the Netherlands government in case of interference in the Netherlands. The mast also has TV channels. There is no MW frequency. DAB signal is on 10C from Mendlesham, Puttock's Hill and Warren Heath (Testing started 30 September 2016). Felixstowe will have the DAB mast switched on during October 2016. Due to the few masts available, there is a lack of coverage towards the Suffolk Coast north of Felixstowe, Sudbury, Newmarket, Haverhill and Beccles & Bungay also have very poor or no DAB coverage.
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