Bbc Radio Carlisle

BBC Radio Cumbria is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cumbria and broadcasts from studios in Carlisle. HistoryThe county of Cumbria, from which the station takes its current name, was not created until 1974. Radio Cumbria began service on 24 November 1973 as BBC Radio Carlisle and could be received across most of the former county of Cumberland. The station adopted its current name shortly before its tenth anniversary in May 1982, when its service was expanded to cover the whole of the administrative county of Cumbria, namely: the former counties of Cumberland and Westmorland the former exclave of Lancashire "North of the Sands" the small area of the former West Riding of Yorkshire, around Sedbergh and Dent, that had been promoted from Yorkshire into Cumbria. BBC Radio Furness opt-outFrom the launch of the renamed station, between 25 May 1982 and 1991, an opt-out service, BBC Radio Furness operated in the south of the county at peak times—originally breakfast and lunchtimes on weekdays, and Saturday mornings. Programmes were produced in Barrow-in-Furness and used 96. 1 MHz and 837 kHz. This meant that, in addition to the Furness area, Radio Furness could be received along the south coast of Cumbria, in parts of the Lake District, and the west coast as far as Millom. "Radio Furness" lost its separate branding in 1991 but programme opts for the south lakes and Furness at Breakfast and during the afternoon continued until 1994. As a result of BBC cutbacks in the 1990s, programme opts were curtailed although the Barrow studios have remained staffed.

BBC Radio Cumbria is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cumbria and broadcasts from studios in Carlisle. HistoryThe county of Cumbria, from which the station takes its current name, was not created until 1974. Radio Cumbria began service on 24 November 1973 as BBC Radio Carlisle and could be received across most of the former county of Cumberland. The station adopted its current name shortly before its tenth anniversary in May 1982, when its service was expanded to cover the whole of the administrative county of Cumbria, namely: the former counties of Cumberland and Westmorland the former exclave of Lancashire "North of the Sands" the small area of the former West Riding of Yorkshire, around Sedbergh and Dent, that had been promoted from Yorkshire into Cumbria. BBC Radio Furness opt-outFrom the launch of the renamed station, between 25 May 1982 and 1991, an opt-out service, BBC Radio Furness operated in the south of the county at peak times—originally breakfast and lunchtimes on weekdays, and Saturday mornings. Programmes were produced in Barrow-in-Furness and used 96. 1 MHz and 837 kHz. This meant that, in addition to the Furness area, Radio Furness could be received along the south coast of Cumbria, in parts of the Lake District, and the west coast as far as Millom. "Radio Furness" lost its separate branding in 1991 but programme opts for the south lakes and Furness at Breakfast and during the afternoon continued until 1994. As a result of BBC cutbacks in the 1990s, programme opts were curtailed although the Barrow studios have remained staffed.