Overview
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The station began broadcasting on 14 March 1968 as
BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent
.
Both of the English counties the station covers have no
BBC local radio
station for their whole area. In Staffordshire, the south is covered by
BBC Radio WM
, the
east
by
BBC Radio Derby
and the west by
BBC Radio Shropshire
. In
Cheshire
, north-western areas are served by
BBC Radio Merseyside
and the north-east by
BBC Radio Manchester
. The BBC has mooted at the possibility of launching a stand-alone station for Cheshire, but they have never been taken forward.
The station broadcasts from its studios on Cheapside in
Hanley
, the biggest of the six towns that make up the city of
Stoke-on-Trent
. There are also studios and offices in
Crewe
,
Leek
and
Stafford
.
The current Managing Editors are Alistair Miskin and Tim Beech.
Technical
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Programming
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Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's
Stoke-on-Trent
studios from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day.
The station's late show, airing from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., originates from
BBC Radio WM
in
Birmingham
.
During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Stoke simulcasts overnight programming from
BBC Radio 5 Live
and
BBC Radio London
.
References
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- ^
"RAJAR"
. RAJAR
. Retrieved
27 September
2015
.
External links
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