Barnoldswick is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in the county of Lancashire, England. It lies near the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Stock Beck, a tributary of the River Ribble, runs through the town, which has a population of 10,752.
Local BBC Radio is the BBC's local and regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of forty stations. The stations were launched progressively; starting with BBC Radio Leicester on 8 November 1967, with the last station to launch being the short-lived BBC Dorset FM on 26 April 1993. Since then, many local radio stations have been merged and renamed but no new stations have been created where no service previously existed as plans to launch stations in unserved areas, most notably in Cheshire, have come to nothing.
BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of West Yorkshire.
BBC Radio York is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of North Yorkshire.
Lincs FM is a UK Independent Local Radio radio station serving Lincolnshire and Newark. It broadcasts on 102.2 FM across the county, with relays in Grantham on 96.7 FM and Scunthorpe on 97.6 FM, as well as on DAB and online. The station's current branding is "Hits & Memories" and it plays a wide variety songs from the 1960s to today.
Pulse 1 is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network.
Yorkshire Coast Radio was a local radio station serving Scarborough, Whitby & Bridlington. The station was folded into Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020.
Heart Yorkshire is a regional radio station owned by Communicorp and operated by Global as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts to South and West Yorkshire from studios in Leeds.
Pirate radio in the United Kingdom (UK) has been a popular and enduring radio medium since the 1960s, despite expansions in licensed broadcasting, and the advent of both digital radio and internet radio. Although it peaked throughout the 1960s and again during the 1980s/1990s, it remains in existence today. Having moved from transmitting from ships in the sea to towerblocks across UK towns and cities, in 2009 the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom estimated more than 150 pirate radio stations were still operating.
Stephanie Hirst is an English radio presenter who started working for BBC Radio Leeds in 2018. She has hosted Hit40UK and the weekday breakfast show on Capital Yorkshire Hirsty's Daily Dose.
Jazz FM is a radio station broadcasting on digital radio in the United Kingdom and Malta which predominantly plays jazz music, jazz standards as well as blues and soul music. The station also plays specialist programming in a wide variety of jazz disciplines. The station, in this incarnation set up by Richard Wheatly, can trace its roots back to 102.2 Jazz FM, which launched in 1990. The current station launched on 6 October 2008 at 19:00 BST.
Bauer Radio is a UK-based radio division of the Bauer Media Group.
The BBC Night Network was an all-evening radio network which linked up the North East England, Yorkshire and the Humber, and later the North West England regions of BBC Local Radio. Each station would share the same programming.
Dream FM was a London pirate radio station active in the 1990s, most well known for championing the happy hardcore music scene.
Radio Aire was an Independent Local Radio station, serving Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Leeds Pride is an annual LGBT Pride celebration held in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Viking FM is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire.
Kisstory is a National Digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer Radio as part of the Kiss Network. It is a sister station to Kiss that plays "old skool and anthems". Kisstory is also currently a radio programme airing 8 hours per week. Then on 7 May 2013 Kisstory was expanded into a full-time station in response to positive feedback from listeners and at the expense of Q Radio. At the same time KissFresh, a then brand-new station playing "non-stop new beats including Hip-Hop, R&B, EDM, House and Garage", was given its own station.
Greatest Hits Radio is a classic hits radio network in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by Bauer.
Flex FM is a London-based community radio station, which originally started life as a pirate radio station. Flex broadcasts house, drum and bass, dubstep, UK garage, old skool hardcore, reggae and soul to London and surrounding areas on 101.4FM.
