BBC Surrey
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| City | Guildford |
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| Broadcast area | Surrey |
| Frequency | RDS: BBCSurry, 104.0 & 104.6 FM 1368 AM DAB: MuxCo Surrey Freeview: 722 |
| First air date | 14 November 1991 (as BBC Radio Surrey) |
| Format | Local news, talk and music |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 4.1% (September 2014 (with BBC Sussex), ) |
| Owner |
BBC Local Radio, BBC South, BBC South East |
| Website | BBC Surrey |
BBC Surrey is the BBC Local Radio service covering the English county of Surrey, along with North-East Hampshire and the northern fringes of West Sussex including Crawley, East Grinstead and Gatwick Airport. It began on 14 November 1991 under the name BBC Radio Surrey, later becoming part of BBC Southern Counties Radio, before adopting its present name on 30 March 2009.
BBC Surrey's studios are based on the campus of the University of Surrey in Guildford. It broadcasts programming specifically for Surrey and North-East Hampshire weekdays from 6-9am and 5-6pm, and on Saturdays from 6-9am and 2-6pm. Some other programmes broadcast on both BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey are also broadcast from the Guildford studios. There are also dedicated news bulletins for Surrey on the hour at some times of the day. The remainder of the station's output is shared with BBC Sussex.
BBC Surrey is transmitted on 104 and 104.6 FM, and on DAB via the MuxCo Surrey multiplex, which officially launched on 12 December 2013. It has also been available on BBC iPlayer since 2 September 2009.
In the late 1980s, with the BBC Local Radio network nearing completion, a management team was appointed for 'BBC Radio Surrey and Berkshire', the plan being to have two separate stations with their own identities, but with shared resources, and some shared programming. But then in 1990, as part of a plan to save £3 million, the BBC announced that BBC Radio Surrey would instead launch as an opt-out service of BBC Radio Sussex, with BBC Radio Berkshire an opt-out of BBC Radio Oxford.
BBC Radio Surrey went on air initially on Saturday 6 September 1991 for coverage of a cricket match between Surrey and Hampshire - this was simply a relay of Radio Solent's coverage. The station finally went on air officially at 6.00am on Thursday 14 November 1991. At launch it broadcast 43 hours a week of its own programming from its studios on the campus of the University of Surrey in Guildford. The remainder of the output came from either its sister station BBC Radio Sussex, or from the BBC South & East network.
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