BBC Radio Manchester: Difference between revisions

| name = BBC Radio Manchester

| logo = BBC Radio Manchester 2022.svg

| city = [[ManchesterSalford]]

| area = [[Greater Manchester]], north-east [[Cheshire]] and north-west [[Derbyshire]].

| airdate = 10 September [[1970 in radio|1970]]

| frequency = [[FM broadcasting|FM]]: 95.1 MHz (Greater Manchester, [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]] & north-east Cheshire)<br>FM: 104.6 MHz (Oldham & Upper Tame Valley)<br>[[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]]: 11C<br>[[Freeview (UK)|Freeview]]: 719711

| former_frequencies = 1296 [[AM broadcasting|MW]]<br>1457 MW

| formatrds = Local news, talk and= BBC musicManc

| languageformat = [[EnglishLocal news, talk and language|English]]music

| language = [[English language|English]]
| former_names = BBC GMR (1988–2006)<br>GMR Talk (1997)<br>BBC Manchester

| owner = [[BBC Local Radio]],<br>[[BBC North West]]

| website = [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radiomanchester/ BBC Radio Manchester]

'''BBC Radio Manchester''' is the [[Local BBC Local Radio|BBC's local radio station]] serving [[Greater Manchester]], north-east [[Cheshire]] and north-west [[Derbyshire]].

According to [[RAJAR]], the station has a weekly audience of 194181,000 listeners and a 32.36% share as of December 20222023.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php|title=RAJAR|publisher=RAJAR|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref>

BBC Radio Manchester launched at 6am6 am on 10 September 1970 as the first local radio station in the city of [[Manchester]]. Initially broadcasting from studios at 33 Piccadilly overlooking [[Piccadilly Gardens]] in the [[Manchester city centre|city centre]], the station's long-standing home was [[New Broadcasting House (Manchester)|New Broadcasting House]] on [[Oxford Road, Manchester|Oxford Road]]. Radio Manchester originally broadcast only on 95.1 VHF ([[FM broadcasting|FM]]); the frequency of 206 metres (1457 kHz), on the [[AM broadcasting|AM]] [[medium wave]] band was added approximately 2 years after the station first went on air. The first voice on air was Alan Sykes. Other presenters included Roy Cross, [[Sandra Chalmers]], Mike Riddoch and Alex Greenhalgh. A very popular evening show developed from around 1973 to mid 1975 'the Baron from the BBC'.

In the mid 1970s, Radio Manchester was notable for the "Midway through the Day" programme which introduced strip programming and ran from lunchtime until 7pm7 pm. Presenters changed throughout the day, and it was the precursor of the now common chat and music format. At the same time Radio Manchester began an evening programme from 10pm10 pm to midnight which often repeated interviews from "Midway through the Day". By the 1980s, the late evening programming had ended, apart from on Sundays when local programming continued to be broadcast until midnight.

FromBetween 30 October 1988 until 3 April 2006, the station was named BBC GMR (Greater Manchester Radio) and, for a brief period in 1997, ''GMR Talk''. Programmes included a phone-in with [[Allan Beswick]] (who remains at the station and has presented a variety of shows at differing times, currently presenting a late night talk show which is now only broadcast at weekends and simulcast with [[BBC Radio Lancashire]] and [[BBC Radio Merseyside]]), late-night music and comedy show ''Michelle Mullane around Midnight'' and ''GMR Brass'', a brass band music programme. From 1991, GMR was part of the [[BBC Night Network]].

At 6am6 am on Saturday 8 October 2011, the station ended its transmissions from its [[Oxford Road, Manchester|Oxford Road]] studios and began broadcasting from [[MediaCityUK]] in [[Salford Quays]]. The final show from Oxford Road was presented by [[Darryl Morris (presenter)|Darryl Morris]] and the first from the new studios by [[Andy Crane]].

Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's [[MediaCityUK]] studios in [[Salford]]. fromLocal 6amprogramming tocurrently 1amairs onbetween Saturday6am toand Fridays10pm.

*[[Sandra Chalmers]] (deceased)

*[[Dianne Oxberry]] (deceased)