BBC Radio Solent

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BBC Radio Solent
Broadcast area	Hampshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight
Frequency	96.1 FM, 103.8 FM, 999 MW, 1359 MW, DAB (NOW South Hampshire)
First air date	8 November 1967
Format	Local news, talk and music
Language	English
Audience share	8.2% (September 2009, [1])
Owner	BBC Local Radio, BBC South
Website	BBC Radio Solent

BBC Radio Solent is the BBC Local Radio service for the Isle of Wight and the English counties of Hampshire and Dorset. Its studios are located in Southampton, in the same purpose-built office block as the BBC South Today news studios on Havelock Road with district offices in Portsmouth, Newport, Poole and Dorchester. It was previously based in South Western House, the former railway hotel at the old Southampton docks terminus station.

The station is named after The Solent, the area of sea between Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

Contents 1 Transmitters 2 Schedule 3 North-East Hampshire 4 Presenters 4.1 Sports Presenters / Commentators 4.2 Newsreaders 4.3 Reporters 4.4 Weather Presenters 4.5 Notable past presenters 5 External links 5.1 Audio clips 6 References

[edit] Transmitters

It broadcasts on 96.1FM and 999AM for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and 103.8 FM and 1359AM for Dorset, DAB (NOW South Hampshire) and via its website using Flash and Windows Media streaming formats. It began broadcasting on December 31, 1970. The main 96.1FM frequency is not that clear north of Winchester, with BBC Radio Berkshire being the most audible over Hampshire on 104.1FM (from Hannington).

[edit] Schedule

Weekdays start with the Early Morning Music show with Alina Jenkins at 5.00am, Julian Clegg does the breakfast show from 6:30 - 9:30am. Jon Cuthill hosts from 9:30 - 1pm. Charlie Crocker follows in the afternoon (took over from Richard Cartridge) and then Steve Harris is in the chair for Drivetime from 4pm. From 7pm, BBC local radio in the South and South-East share evening programmes, starting with Roger Day, who broadcasts from the studios of Radio Kent and Paul Miller from 10pm - 1am, who is based at the Radio Solent studios. Richard Latto used to^[when?] host a local overnight show each night, but the station has now reverted back to simulcasting BBC Radio 5 Live's "Up All Night" from 1am - 5am.

[edit] North-East Hampshire

Rather confusingly, towns like Aldershot, Farnborough and Fleet in the North-East of Hampshire are covered on BBC local radio not by BBC Radio Solent but by BBC Surrey via their Guildford transmitter on 104.6FM. The station's slogan into the news is; "You're listening to Surrey & North-East Hampshire's radio station." Basingstoke is officially looked after by BBC Radio Berkshire.

[edit] Presenters

Alina Jenkins (Weekday early mornings, Saturday breakfast) Julian Clegg (Weekday breakfast) Jon Cuthill (Weekday mornings) Charlie Crocker (Weekday afternoons) Steve Harris (Weekday drivetime) Roger Day (Weekday evenings - simulcast with stations in the BBC South and BBC South East regions) Paul Miller (Weekday nights - simulcast with stations in the BBC South and BBC South East regions) Richard Latto (Cover Presenter / Station Sound Producer) Sally Taylor (Saturday mornings)

Neil Sackley (Saturday morning/lunchtime) Dave Cash (Saturday evenings - simulcast with stations in the BBC South and BBC South East regions) David Allen (Saturday/Sunday nights - simulcast with stations in the BBC South and BBC South East regions) Tim Daykin (Sunday breakfast) Nick Girdler (Sunday mornings) Georgina Windsor (Sunday lunchtime) Mike Powell (Sunday afternoon) Phil Jackson (Sunday evenings) Harry Crawford (The Big Dorset Brunch - Saturday mornings 103.8fm)

[edit] Sports Presenters / Commentators

Adam Blackmore (Sports Editor) Kris Temple Tony Husband Laurence Herdman

Kevan James Jimmy Luff

[edit] Newsreaders

Marcus White Mike Powell Jill Sainsbury Lucy Morgan Brian Smith Emily Hudson Julie Massiter

Nadine Dukeson Sam Gudger Steve Dale Fiona Biggs Neil Sackley Peter Stuart Phil Harrison

[edit] Reporters

Dominic Blake Jo Palmer Matt Treacy Tristan Pascoe

Harry Crawford Neil Sackley (on the Paul Miller show) Paul Cliffton (Travel news)

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

[edit] Weather Presenters

Georgie Palmer Alexis Rogers Reham Khan Mike Powell

Penny Gower Sam Fraser Lena Samuels

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

[edit] Notable past presenters

Kenny Everett (presenter, 1972) John Piper (presenter of Piper's Tune throughout the 1970s, left to launch 2CR in Bournemouth) Richard Skinner (newsreader, left to join BBC Radio 1 in 1973. Now presents for Xfm London) Peter White (the BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent, worked for Radio Solent from 1967-2006) Carolyn Quinn (now a BBC Radio 4 presenter)

Lee McKenzie Richard Cartridge Gethyn Jones (presenter of The Afternoon Show during the 1980s) Andrew Peach (Now working for BBC Radio Berkshire) Sandi Jones

[edit] External links

• BBC Radio Solent Official Site.
• Media UK - BBC Radio Solent
• History of local radio in Hampshire.
• Rowridge mast. 96.1FM Frequency and DAB.
• Bincombe Hill mast. Solent for Dorset: 103.8FM Frequency
• Fareham mast. 999 kHz AM Frequency
• Fern Barrow mast. Solent for Dorset: 1359 kHz AM Frequency
• Richard Cartridge Leaving in 2007 after an "association spanning 35 years".
• Richard Cartridge's official site
• Richard Cartridge and Sylv Willoughby's site
• Gethyn Jones' website

[edit] Audio clips

• 2006 jingle (jingles provided by David Arnold Music)

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