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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox radio station | name = BBC Radio Cornwall | logo = BBC Radio Cornwall 2022.svg | city = [[Truro]] | area = [[Cornwall]] | airdate = 17 January 1983 | frequency = [[FM broadcasting|FM]]: 95.2 MHz (East Cornwall)<br>FM: 96.0 MHz ([[Isles of Scilly]])<br>FM: 103.9 MHz ([[West Cornwall (UK region)|West Cornwall]])<br>[[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]]: 11B<br>[[Freeview (UK)|Freeview]]: 713 | rds = BBC CNWL | format = Local news, talk and music | language = [[English language|English]], [[Cornish language|Cornish]] | former_frequencies = 630 [[AM broadcasting|MW]]<br>657 MW | owner = [[BBC Local Radio]],<br>[[BBC South West]] | licensing_authority = [[Ofcom]] | website = [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocornwall/ BBC Radio Cornwall] }} '''BBC Radio Cornwall''' is the [[BBC Local Radio|BBC's local radio station]] serving the county of [[Cornwall]]. It broadcasts on [[frequency modulation|FM]], [[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]], digital TV and via [[BBC Sounds]] from studios at Phoenix Wharf in [[Truro]]. According to [[RAJAR]], the station has a weekly audience of 92,000 listeners of May 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php|title=RAJAR|publisher=RAJAR|access-date=2023-10-26}}</ref> ==Overview== Until 31 December 1982, local radio services for [[Cornwall]] had amounted to a regional weekday breakfast show ''[[Morning Sou'West]]'', aired on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s frequencies in [[Devon]] and Cornwall, plus five-minute regional bulletins on Saturday mornings and Mondays to Saturdays at lunchtime and teatime. There was no regional output on Sundays. On 17 January 1983, BBC Radio Cornwall (and [[BBC Radio Devon]]) launched, although for its first few years on air, both stations shared an afternoon programme. ==Technical== BBC Radio Cornwall is broadcasts on 95.2 MHz for [[Cornwall|East Cornwall]] from the [[Caradon Hill transmitting station]] located on [[Bodmin Moor]], 96.0 MHz on the [[Isles of Scilly]] and 103.9 MHz from [[Redruth transmitting station]] located on [[Lanner, Cornwall|Lanner Hill]] for [[West Cornwall (UK region)|West Cornwall]], as well as on [[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]]. It was also broadcast on 630 kHz and 657 kHz [[AM broadcasting|AM]] until 2 March 2020, when those transmitters were closed for cost savings.<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC Blog - Further changes to some BBC local radio medium wave services|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/8bda7cd8-fdf8-41f5-8f3c-212cf5f7c86f|url-status=live|access-date=5 March 2021|publisher=BBC|date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514103442/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/8bda7cd8-fdf8-41f5-8f3c-212cf5f7c86f|archive-date=14 May 2020}}</ref> The station also broadcasts on [[Freeview (UK)|Freeview]] TV channel 713 in the [[BBC South West]] region and streams online via [[BBC Sounds]]. ==Programming== Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's [[Truro]] studios from 6 am to 10 pm on weekdays, from 6 am to 6 pm on Saturdays and from 6 am to 2 pm on Sundays. Daniel Pascoe's show (Saturdays 6 pm to 8 pm) and his BBC Introducing show (Saturdays 8 pm to 10 pm) are both broadcast to [[BBC Radio Devon]] and [[BBC Radio Somerset]]. David White's Boogie Wonderland show used to be broadcast on Saturdays between 10 pm to 1 am and was also broadcast to stations in the [[BBC South West]] and [[BBC West]] regions. This programme, along with all other late night regional programming, ended on 7 October 2023 due to BBC cutbacks, and was replaced with a networked England-wide late show which broadcasts every night of the week. During the station's overnight downtime, BBC Radio Cornwall simulcasts [[BBC Radio 5 Live]] ===Cornish language output=== Radio Cornwall is one of two radio stations to have broadcast programmes in the [[Cornish language]]. A five-minute weekly news bulletin, ''An Nowodhow'', is broadcast every Sunday at 1.55pm.<ref>Diarmuid O'Néill, ''Rebuilding the Celtic Languages: reversing language shift in the Celtic countries'', 2005</ref><ref>John T. Koch, ''Celtic Culture: a historical encyclopedia'', 2006</ref> When Radio Cornwall was first set up Cornish language content was limited to around 2 minutes per week. In 1987, a new weekly 15-minute-long bilingual show, Kroeder Kroghan, detailing Celtic cultural events taking place in [[Cornwall]], was introduced.<ref>Martin John Ball, James Fife, ''The Celtic Languages'', 1993</ref> ==Presenters== ===Notable past presenters=== *[[Rod Lyon]] *[[Caroline Righton]] *[[Jonathan Samuels]] (now at [[Sky News]]) *[[Brenda Wootton]] ==See also== {{Portal|Cornwall}} *[[List of topics related to Cornwall]] *[[Rewind Radio]] *[[Hits Radio Cornwall]] *[[Heart West]] *[[Radyo an Gernewegva]] *[[Cornish media]] *[[List of Celtic-language media]] *[[NOW Cornwall Multiplex]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocornwall/ BBC Radio Cornwall] {{Coord|50|15|45.579|N|5|2|48.0516|W|display=title}} {{BBC Radio}} {{BBC Local Radio}} {{Radio stations in South West England}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bbc Radio Cornwall}} [[Category:BBC Local Radio|Cornwall]] [[Category:Companies based in Cornwall]] [[Category:Radio stations in Cornwall]] [[Category:1983 establishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Radio stations established in 1983]]
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