BFBS Lisburn

BFBS Lisburn, a British Forces Broadcasting Service radio station in Northern Ireland, is based at Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn. BFBS Northern Ireland is broadcast on 1287 AM in military bases across the province and on 100.6 FM in the Lisburn city area. The station was launched on the morning of Monday 8 May 2006.^{[ citation needed ]}

Reception

FM

• 100.6 MHz Lisburn air date: June 2006
  • Further community stations with local and shared programmes across the province began broadcasting on 5 March 2008.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 101.0 MHz Holywood
• 106.5 MHz Aldergrove / Antrim
• 107.5 MHz Ballykinler

A station in Ballykelly was shut down on 12 March 2008 due to base closure.

AM

BFBS Northern Ireland also used to broadcast on AM as the first ever forces station in the UK (since 1994)

• Girdwood Barracks, Belfast (until closure August 2005)
• Omagh (until closure 11 August 2006)
• Portadown (until closure June 2006)
• Ballymena (until closure 3 April 2007)
• Bessbrook (until closure June 2007)
• Crossmaglen/Forkhill bases in South Armagh until closure-2006.
• Lisburn (converted to FM May 2006)