Which BBC Local Radio Station began as Radio Blackburn in 1971?
BBC Radio Lancashire all BBC Local Radio stations, it also airs the networked weekday evening shows, originating from BBC Radio Leeds and produced independently by Wire Free Productions. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Lancashire simulcasts BBC Radio 5 Live overnight. The station's local presenters include Graham Liver (weekday breakfast), Sally Naden and Brett Davison (weekday mornings), John Gillmore (weekday afternoons) and Gary Hickson (weekday drivetime). BBC Radio Lancashire BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC Local Radio service for the county of Lancashire, in North West England. It began as BBC Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971 on 96.4FM, then adding 854 kHz
BBC Local Radio successful that all of the stations, except BBC Radio Durham, remained on air. In addition to this, more followed in 1970 and 1971; BBC Radio Birmingham, Bristol, Blackburn, Derby, Humberside, London, Manchester, Medway, Newcastle (replacing BBC Radio Durham), Oxford, Solent, and Teesside. Despite the success of this, the original stations were seen as flawed, as they originally only broadcast on the FM waveband, and not on the more widely available AM waveband. This was eventually rectified a few years after the creation of these new channels. From 1973, Independent Local Radio (ILR) launched nationally; with nineteen stations, and more to