BBC Radio Suffolk

BBC Radio Suffolk

City of license	Ipswich
Broadcast area	Suffolk
Frequency	95.5 MHz, 95.9 MHz, 103.9 MHz & 104.6 MHz
First air date	April 12, 1990
Format	Local news, talk and music
Language	English
Audience share	15.2% (March 2011, [1])
Owner	BBC Local Radio, BBC East
Website	BBC Radio Suffolk

BBC Radio Suffolk is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Suffolk, commencing broadcasts on 12 April 1990. Its studios are at Broadcasting House in St Matthews Street, Ipswich on 95.5 (Oulton, near Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh), 103.9 (Manningtree) and 104.6 (Great Barton, four miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds near the B1106 and Conyers Green) FM. In 2004, Radio Suffolk was named Station of the Year in the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

Transmitters

The Manningtree frequency is the strongest. The 470ft antenna mast transmitter is just south of Manningtree, in Essex, and is also one of the BBC Essex MW transmitters. However, the BBC Radio Suffolk broadcasts are directional. It also has Absolute Radio on 1233kHz, BBC national FM, BBC National DAB and Digital One. The Great Barton transmitter also has Heart FM East Anglia on 96.4FM. The Oulton transmitter also has The Beach on 103.4FM and Digital One (since 16 December 2005). The 95.9FM frequency, from the Aldeburgh mast, is only recent and had to be approved by the Netherlands government in case of interference in Holland. The mast also has TV channels. There is no MW frequency or DAB signal. A mast at Sudbury (near Assington), which is the main TV transmitter for South Suffolk, has the NOW Digital Essex 12D multiplex, which has BBC Essex, even though the mast is in Suffolk. (However the broadcasts are directional). The mast at Oulton/Lowestoft, and one near the Suffolk border at Thetford have the NOW Digital Norfolk 11B multiplex, which has Radio Norfolk.

Programming

Weekdays

Time	Main presenter(s)/programme	Location
0100 – 0400	BBC Radio 5 Live: Up All Night	London
0400 - 0600	Wally Webb	Norwich
0600 - 0900	Terry Baxter	Ipswich
0900 - 1230	Mark Murphy
1230 - 1600	Lesley Dolphin
1600 - 1900	Stephen Foster
1900 - 2200	Sue Marchant	Cambridge
2200 - 0100	Nick Risby	Ipswich

Friday variations

Time	Main presenter(s)/programme	Location
1600 - 1800	Stephen Foster	Ipswich
1800 - 1900	BBC Radio Suffolk Sport
1900 - 2000	BBC Introducing
2000 - 2200	Sue Marchant	Cambridge

Saturday

Time	Main presenter(s)/programme	Location
0100 – 0500	BBC Radio 5 Live: Up All Night	London
0500 - 0600	BBC Radio 5 Live: Morning Reports
0600 - 0900	Rob Dunger	Ipswich
0900 - 1200	James Hazell
1200 - 1400	Life's a Pitch: Mark Murphy
1400 - 1800	Matchday - Full match commentary on ITFC
1800 - 2000	Bernie Keith	Northampton
2000 - 2300	Richard Spendlove	Cambridge
2300 - 0100	The Late Paul Barnes	Norwich

Sunday

Time	Main presenter(s)/programme	Location
0100 – 0500	BBC Radio 5 Live: Up All Night	London
0500 - 0600	BBC Radio 5 Live: Morning Reports
0600 - 0900	Rob Dunger	Ipswich
0900 - 1200	James Hazell
1200 - 1400	Georgina Wroe
1400 - 1600	Stephen Foster
1600 - 1800	Steve Cherelle's Big Country Show	Chelmsford
1800 - 1900	The Naked Scientists	Cambridge
1900 - 2100	Bridget Metcalfe	Chelmsford
2100 - 2300	Northern Soul with Ian Gray	Cambridge
2300 - 0100	Keith Skues	Norwich

Output producers

• Kate Arkell
• Steve Blower
• Lis Henderson
• Sally Burch
• Cleah Hetherington
• Jon Wright
• Alison Acton

• Alison Root
• Linda Walker
• Philippa Taylor
• Sharon Whight
• Luke Deal
• Guy Campbell
• Brenner Woolley
• Graeme McLoughlin

External links

• BBC Radio Suffolk
• History of local radio in Suffolk.
• Recording jingles at S2 Blue in Leek (YouTube)
• Transmitter Coverage Maps.
• Aldeburgh transmitter.
• Great Barton transmitter.
• Manningtree transmitter (includes coverage map).

See also

• Suffolk Youth Orchestra