Editing BBC Home Service (section)

==Regional services==
The BBC Home Service had seven different regions, within [[Home counties|London and South East England]] was served by the "basic" service, which was not considered a region by the BBC and acted as the sustaining service for the other regions:
{| class="wikitable"
! Region !! Home city
! {{longitem|Wavelength<br/>{{nobold|{{smaller|([[Metre|m]])}}}}}}
! {{longitem|Frequency<br/>{{nobold|{{smaller|([[kHz]])}}}}}}
|-
|colspan="4" style="font-size:98%;text-align:center;"| ''Booster signal wavelengths and frequencies in parentheses''
|-
| ''n/a'' || [[London]] || 330 {{smaller|(202)}} || 908 {{smaller|(1484)}} </tr>
| [[Midlands|Midland]] || [[Birmingham]] || 276 || 1088 </tr>
| [[Northern England|North]] || [[Manchester]] || 434 {{smaller|(261, 202)}} || 692 {{smaller|(1151, 1484)}} </tr>
| [[West of England|West]] || [[Bristol]] || 285<br/>206 || 1052<br/>1457 </tr>
| [[Wales|Welsh]] || [[Cardiff]] || 341 || 881 </tr>
| [[Scotland|Scottish]] || [[Glasgow]] || 371 || 809 </tr>
|-
|rowspan="2"| [[Northern Ireland]]
|rowspan="2"| [[Belfast]]
| {{smaller|Until 1963:}} 261 || 1151 </tr>
| {{smaller|From 1963:}} 224 || 1340
|}

A shortage of frequencies meant that the [[BBC Northern Ireland|Northern Ireland Home Service]] was treated as part of the [[BBC North|North Home Service]], as well as the Northern Ireland service used the same frequency as a North service booster. The Northern Ireland service was separated from the North region on 7 January 1963.

Initially, [[BBC Radio 4]] continued to provide more regional programming and scheduling, and the BBC's weekly programme journal magazine ''[[Radio Times]]'' listed the channel's offerings under the heading "Radio 4 – Home Service" with particular reference to the seven broadcasting regions individually.

===Legacy===
With the introduction of [[BBC Local Radio]], starting with [[BBC Radio Leicester]] on 8 November 1967, it was felt that the future of non-national broadcasting lay in local rather than regional services. The BBC produced a report called ''Broadcasting in the Seventies'' on 10 July 1969, proposing the reorganisation of programmes on the national networks and the end of regional broadcasting.

The report began to be implemented on 4 April 1970 and the Home Service regions gradually disappeared, with some of their frequencies reallocated to [[Independent Local Radio]], until 23 November 1978 when Radio 4 was given the national [[longwave]] frequency previously used by Radio 2 and was relaunched as the "Radio 4 UK" service (remained until 29 September 1984), with two additional transmitters opened in Scotland.

====English news bulletins====
Radio 4 FM continued to carry four daily five-minute regional news bulletins on Mondays to Saturdays until mid-1980, by which time BBC Local Radio had reached most areas of England. The wide coverage of the [[Holme Moss transmitting station|Holme Moss transmitter]] meant that listeners in much of [[Northern England]] received combined [[BBC North|North]] and [[BBC North West|North West]] news bulletins.

====National and other regions====
The "national regions" became [[BBC Radio Scotland]], [[BBC Radio Wales]] / [[BBC Radio Cymru]] and [[BBC Radio Ulster]], at first relaying the majority of Radio 4 programming but later becoming completely independent.

During the 1970s, Radio 4 FM in the [[East of England]] ([[Tacolneston transmitting station|Tacolneston]], [[Peterborough transmitting station|Peterborough]] and other [[broadcast relay station|relays]]) carried a breakfast magazine programme called ''[[Roundabout East Anglia]]'' was first broadcast on 5 August 1974 as the region lacked any BBC Local Radio until the service ceased on 30 May 1980, ahead of the opening of [[BBC Radio Norfolk]] four months later.<ref name="round">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content/articles/2005/09/09/local_radio_25_years_book_feature.shtml|title=BBC Radio Norfolk's 25th anniversary|date=9 September 2005|access-date=10 February 2012|publisher=BBC}}</ref> The last former Home Service region for the [[South West England]] was an VHF/FM opt-out of Radio 4, ''[[Morning Sou'West]]'' was also carried on several low-power [[medium wave]] transmitters before the programme ended on 31 December 1982, to paving the way for two new local stations ([[BBC Radio Devon]] and [[BBC Radio Cornwall]]) launched on 17 January 1983.