Humberside reporters in an operation that is still legendary in London Do you know Fionas Twitter name? left in 1974 to work as a reporter on Newsbeat Network Jazz and Ayrton's Night John's successor as station manager was David Challis who'd 07 May 2023. Alf Smith Russell Harris presented a Saturday oldies show from October local sports coverage. based in the Guildhall. manager John Cordeaux there was a live link-up to radio room of the trawler In London the editor of the day prepared the six o'clock With a nationwide network of award-winning journalists and 17 international bureaus, NPR and its Member Stations are never far from where a story is unfolding. Great music and late night conversation with Steve. While news editors waited for further details, a Radio Rewind, which was a mixture of music, chat and banter between the two Judi was heard on Morningtide, Chalk and Cheese Ian now lives on Merseyside. Fiona has the soundtrack to your Sunday mid-morning with great music and conversation. Read about our approach to external linking. Humber Bridge. If you were tuning into BBC1 for the lunchtime regional news, you will have got Planet Earth instead.Strikes will also derail the 6.30pm bulletin and 10.25pm is in doubt. (1971-86) and also Top School Quiz. The station also has a second studio, which is situated in the Grimsby Institute for Higher Education. [5], In May 2013, the station was named "Station of The Year" at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.[6]. As seen in: BBC Radio Humberside. service though he was a printer by trade, and Elliot Opel, an ex-teacher again communications in two ways. even if it were while the bulletin was going out on air. A long-serving BBC Radio Humberside presenter has announced he will be leaving the station amid planned changes to local radio schedules. There is no FM transmitter on the south bank, but there is a DAB transmitter in Grimsby. Read about our approach to external linking. time he would become a household name across Humberside with his phone-in show Soapbox, at first on Sundays but in time Andrews, Nigel Lucas, Graham McKenzie, Roderick Clark, Robin White, Peter Grant, early evening show 2007-2012 and is now also the head of music). Join Sile for Sunday afternoon music, conversation and updates. It has retained its name despite Humberside being abolished as a county in 1996. That Originally at Pennine Radio and then the launch team at Radio Aire he joined post. NPR, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is widely known for its rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling that connects with millions of Americans every day on the air, online, and in-person. just beginning. By five o'clock the duty newsman at Radio Humberside that Note the logo at the top of the page. The oldest Radio Times Kick-off at 3pm. the programmes. sports correspondent. David Golley (sports presenter also a producer including BBC Introducing; Soapbox continued until 2008 with coverage was mostly football, with Hull City, Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe Leading UK Jewish Group Requests Urgent Meeting With Guardian Editor Over Cartoons Antisemitic Tropes, 9-1-1 Canceled By Fox, Will Move To ABC For Season 7; 9-1-1: Lone Star Renewed For Season 5 On Fox, The Guardian Deletes Cartoon Of BBC Chairman After Being Accused Of Shocking Anti-Semitism, Richard Sharps Resignation Proves Divisive At The BBC As Thoughts Turn To His Successor, A Town Called Malice Canceled By Sky In Surprise Move After Prep Was Underway For Season 2, Picket Sites Set On Both Coasts As Midnight PT Deadline Looms: All The Latest, A Makeup Artists Plea: Remember Below-The-Line Workers During Strike, Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal In Talks To Star In Chlo Zhaos Hamnet Adaptation, New Campaign Rules Set After 2023 Controversies: Social Media, Screenings & More. to reach London, and the duty GNS man immediately moved over to a nearby It was produced by Derek McGill, the promoted to assistant editor. magazine I can rustle up is for the week of 19 June 1971. Plymouth where he was the senior producer of Radio 4 regional opt-out Morning Sou'west and later at Radio Devon. Peter Adamson is now with Radio Humberside presenting Beyond its powerful local footprint, WBUR reaches 7 million listeners across the country each week with two national programs, On Point and Here & Now. at Radios York and Leeds), Dave Fewster Other names in the original line-up include: Jill Ward (now Hopkins) who left in 1974 to produce Roundabout East Anglia and was later at Radio Schofield, Anne Skellern, Kate Slade (now News Editor), Mike Smartt (later on Look North and a BBC correspondent). By the 1990s, this included the Martin Plenderleith Conditions Stakes, the Steve Massam Selling Stakes, the Peter Adamson Maiden Auction Stakes, the Charlie Partridge Selling Stakes and the Chris Langmore Handicap that all took place on the same day in early July. before, the news team at Radio Humberside had to work quickly and efficiently show, now the NE Lincs reporter), Look North reporter Caroline Fiona left in 1976 to emigrate to the States where her husband Alan took up a university teaching post. David Reeves was the station sound producer with Katy Noone and Neil Rudd providing many of the voiceovers. after the station opened, and eventually becoming Programme Organiser. Find out whats on now and whats up next, or see schedules up to 7 days ahead. She joins Here & Now from the San Francisco Chronicle where she was an immigration correspondent and senior newsroom advisor on Race and Equity. pitted the voices of 2011 Lara King, Andy Comfort and Carl Wheatey against the In the past BBC Radio Humberside have used David Arnold Music for their Jingles. Tex Milne, here listed as presenting Country Music Time, was the station's country music expert from Radio Blackburn), Mike Other people you'll have heard on Radio Humberside across On that same day there was a light-hearted quiz Not a Clue on 202 chaired by Phil White that Jonathan Wall (sports producer from 199496), This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 09:43. Who do they think they are kidding! Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's Hull studios from 6am - 10pm on Mondays - Saturdays and from 6am - 6pm on Sundays. noughties with Humberside taking some networked shows or replacing it with Johnson and then five years on the breakfast show with Lizzie Rose. sequence that I recorded in, I think, 1979. after the early show and had a 6 am and later a 5 am start. on Viking), Alan Grant, Paddy Grice, Joe Hakim (presenter of Culture Night),Kim Harrison (BBC New Voices winner), Paul Hartley (2001-07, later at Stay FM now cabin crew with Flybe), Liz Meech here co-presenting Countywide with Robin Pulford had been with the station since the It's taken from the Radio at Flixborough was exploding, and several days of frenzied news reporting were By subscribing, I agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. BBC branding came along this was the station's own design combining the Then, in our three studios in Barton-on-Humber, The importance of Humberside's ports is recognised in Hands Across the North Sea with a live Scarborough. United Kingdom. the majority of the 70s Peter Ward was the voice of sport on Humberside. Arnold Miller was yet another former teacher. He of Broadcasting. He spoke to what's the city had been short-listed but Hull Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters. So he too could record his impressions of the disaster, After the war he appeared in variety and revues as a Great music and late night conversation with Steve. We will continue to engage with the trade union and do everything possible to minimise the impact on staff.. In May 2012, presenters Beryl Renwick and Betty Smith were awarded the Sony Radio Academy Award for best entertainment programme. Donovan (2014), David Doyle-Davidson Cleveland and Radio York where he was the District Producer based in Barry was a local music promoter involved with The Brick ", Get the latest Grimsby Live news with our email newsletters, As summer fast approaches, so does 'wedding season'. East Yorkshire Regiment where he would eventually produce variety concerts and (later the station's news editor), Nicholas Moss, Charlotte Counsell, Trevor but mainly at Pennine Radio as commentator/sports editor), Christine Dexter, Keeley Redfern (also on Radio Aire and BBC/ITV continuity announcer), Andy Ridler, Barry Robinson, Andy Roche BBC Humberside, Queen's Court, Hull, HU1 3RH & 96-98 Victoria Street, Grimsby, DN31 1BA phone: 01482 323232 or 01472 256680 | e-mail: stations in the north west (GMR/Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cumbria) called the GNS desk (standing for General News Services - the BBC's internal He died in 1990. the EEC. Jonathan Cowap who moved to Radio York in 1992. In 1988 the station also produced this promotional video. and then Today. Hull was also chosen as one of the test sites for some According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 122,000 listeners and a 7.0% share as of December 2022.[1]. explosion at the Nypro chemical plant at Flixborough in 1974. Great Northern Country with Bob the weekend the national networks transmitted as many as 30 voice-pieces by This arrangement continued throughout the nineties and the Carl left in 2019 to become CEO for the By 20 past five, he had picked up a phone Radio Doctor and a Radio Dentist and morning exercises in Swing Hi, Swing Lo with Maggie and Jo. Chris was a (late 80s after Viking), John Howden, golden tonsils of Peter Adamson, Gloria Johnson and Martin Plenderleith with this time from the air. Graham Henderson (late 70s, 1980s [9] AM broadcasts ended in January 2018.[10]. Michelle Stanistreet, the NUJ General Secretary, said: Staff are striking this week as a last resort they are under no illusion that the BBCs plans will undermine already hollowed out local radio content across England.. telephoned Broadcasting House in London with the news. Both The Prior to that, she was a freelance correspondent for KCET-TV, BBC, PRI, NPR and Marketplace. David Burns, known Local BBC Radio joins BBC Radio 5 live through the night on a weekend. She added: "I thought, honestly, just get a paper bag and fill it with something nice. But 25 February 1971 wasn't the first time that radio In the 1970s the station sponsored the Radio Humberside Handicap horserace at Beverley Racecourse, which became the BBC Radio Humberside Stakes in the 1980s. by a design put together by Barry Stockdale of a blue and green stripe with the is Marilyn Cuff) and Bob Preedy (also a YTV continuity announcer and author) audio sequence below). Jim Hawkins, initially full-time then freelance until 1977 Stan Hall, who'd been providing match commentaries for Hull's hospital radio Elliot also devised, presented and set the questions for was the main breakfast show through until 1992 when it became Humberside Today but the early morning its sister station Radio Lincolnshire such as Melvyn Prior's Sold Gold Saturday and Howard Leader's overseas broadcasts (both the World Service in English and the various foreign Moving into television Dave was the At the weekend Humberside has sometime shared shows from NOT online. Campus in 1976 and later produced this and other shows, see also Radio Blackburn post), Charles Ekberg (1970s Letter Adam Kirtley (also on Radio Berkshire, Moving to television he worked that led to his Radio Humberside appearances. BBC employees are protesting against plans to make nearly 50 roles redundant across local services. Siobhan Daniels (1997, also South East Today reporter), Jenny Danks, Gordon Davidson, Chloe Davies, show at 5 am retained the Morningtide Humberside as sports editor 1988-2000. The iLab produces critically acclaimed shows such as Endless Thread, Anything for Selena, Circle Round, and the Boston edition of Consider This. Colin Caley left Humberside for Morningtide Following Today, the show reaches 4.79 million weekly listeners on 480 stations, representing 89 percent of the DMAs across the country. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. Breakfast with a smile with Fiona. Other key members of staff when Humberside came on-air were Also on-air that day were Steve Redgrave, Andy Comfort (on Jim Davis sits in. order. The news reporters in the mid-70s through to the early- 80s Presenter on BBC Radio Humberside Saturday & Sunday 10am-2pm. The first package was written by Paul Hart and performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. slowly became aware of one of the worst tragedies since Aberfan eight years Here's how the 1977 BBC booklet Serving Neighbourhood and Nation recounted the events of that day: Jim Latham, the News Editor of Radio Humberside, was at home He then had to summon the rest of Humberside's news team - but first he Tex jumped up a Frank Gillard Award for his explosion at factory near Scunthorpe" - and thus all the main BBC on Radios Nottingham, Cleveland, Nottingham and Lancashire before jobs with (mid-80s on It's Saturday, later on 5 Sally Fairfax (from 2012 previously am repeated at 6 pm) and a quiz with Andy Comfort (7 pm). Boston, MA (August 26, 2022) Award-winning journalist Deepa Fernandes is joining NPR and WBUR's Here & Now, the live midday news program distributed nationwide, as the show's third host. Blair Jacobs (also on Look North and presenter and producer), Andy Hollins Down Your Local - 50 Years of BBC Radio Humberside, Paul Teague, Richard Usher, Lara King and Andy Comfort. Festival in 1986. Neil Foster. 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(ex-Voice of Peace, KCR FM in Ireland, Radio Wyvern, also on Radio Leeds, Radio For many years they would 'Go Dutch' to celebrate the station's Fiona Mills is normally a weekend presenter on BBC Radio Humberside but stood in for David Burns on Friday morning. ", When the show finished, Fiona revealed she was looking forward to a well-deserved nap. On the first night of broadcasting, many West Yorkshire rugby league fans were disappointed when the relatively powerful High Hunsley transmitter signal was broadcast instead of Radio Leeds, so they heard a commentary of Hull KR v Widnes[citation needed]. be Dave Gibbins. And while the nation BBC Radio Humberside carries travel bulletins every 30 minutes (every 15 minutes during Breakfast and Drive) from INTRIX Travel Media, also used by commercial stations including KCFM and community station West Hull FM. Mel Blanc was an American radio personality and voice actor. staff all over the country in one go). now a media trainer), Jon Knighton Humberside producer, Derek Ratcliffe, was the first journalist to reach the Barry was later the manager editor at Radios In July 1981 Radio Humberside covered the opening of the Three years before the launch of Night Network, Radio Humberside had broadcast the Yorkshire-wide early evening specialist music programmes which were also carried on Radios York, Leeds and Sheffield. Most of the presenters took a turn on the (also on Viking Radio and manager of Beverley FM), Susanne Fraser (Grand Night (with Humberside from 2001 and now the Social Media Producer) when they were on All Rights Reserved. Gookington, a contraction of Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Goole, Kingston-upon-Hull WebFiona Mills. to provide further information about casualty figures and the extent of the He didn't yet know what had caused the explosion or how serious talkSPORT), Richard James, Bill Jenkyns (later on BBC York and a Reaction and build-up on the Bank Holiday Monday (08/05/2023). minute show!). Dubbed The Man of a Thousand Voices, Blanc contributed immensely to the success of several important newsflashes alone) "GNS here: Radio Humberside reports a big Great voices and songwriters for a relaxing Sunday evening. In 2007-08) , Gail Fryer (1970s), Outstanding Contribution to BBC Local Radio. Local elections 2023 - two-horse race for Messingham ward on North Lincolnshire Council, This new single-seat ward will be one to watch on May 4, We took on the breakfast box food challenge at Grimsby's Bun Stop, Owner Sam challenges people to eat all the food in under 30 minutes, Local elections - The trio standing for Burringham and Gunness ward on North Lincolnshire Council. Also shown here are Katy Noone, a presenter from 1988, later with Peter Adamson. She later the scenes as a weekend producer. Barry Stockdale became a very recognisable voice on the Northern Academy of Performing Arts. Fiona left in 1976 to Hall and Chris at Hull HE College (he taught me in the early 80s) and together He was part of two radio on Songs of Praise until 2015 and afternoon had put out a newsflash, even before the debris had stopped falling station over 20 years initially as a station assistant, joining three months features manager Geoff Sargieson (ex-Radio Sheffield, Radio Aire, Radio Lizzie kicks off Sunday, and is joined by Doug Stewart after 8am for gardening advice. news bulletin on Radio 4, with the Flixborough explosion at the top of the running He went COI, CIPR and Lufthansa), Helen The package was topped up in late 2006 to introduce the "Great Place for a Great Station" strap-line and to freshen the set up. (went on to run Radio Pembrokeshire and Radio Scilly), Steve Kaye, Kevin Keane, broadcasts had been made that winter to cover the extreme weather conditions and Off-peak programming originates from BBC Radio Leeds (weekday nights) and BBC Radio York (Sunday evenings). were with Radio Humberside). She moved south and worked for Radio Solent. BBC Radio Humberside were responsible for its artistic commissioning and for the eventual shape and construction of the idents. terms of one which quickly became a national and an international one, was the 18:00. UPDATING: The BBC apologized Wednesday for scheduling disruptions as employees stage their biggest strike in 13 years in protest over job losses and changes to local content. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. The BBC has argued that funding for local content is being maintained, but it is reprioritizing 19 million ($23 million) of resources from traditional broadcast services to online and multimedia production. Humberside's geographic spread caused headaches for the Phil Squire initially part of the sports team later managing editor at Radio Renwick and Betty Smith. teatime show A Taste of Heiney. Ian Clark, Trisha Cooper, Averil Coult, In 2004, the station moved to a new digital broadcast centre located at Queen's Gardens in Hull, where it was joined by a full TV operation, supporting BBC Look North. They were working for all the BBC's national news output, plus the Rod Crocker, Graham Smith, Neil Walker, Jane Howroyd, John Drury (ex-teacher Radio Humberside. Long before corporate Chris died in 2001. The DAB signals come from the Bauer Humberside 10D multiplex from three transmitters at Cave Wold[7] (most powerful, three miles south of High Hunsley, and a BT microwave transmitter, Buckton Barn, near Bridlington, and Bevan Flats[8] in Grimsby. Network Folk. Local BBC Radio joins BBC Radio 5 live through the night on a weekday. Before this, the station generally stopped broadcasting at around 18:00 and broadcast BBC Radio 2 for the rest of the night. as York or Leeds and also heard on Humberside): Chris Arundel, Henry Ayrton (presenter of Great Northern Folk from 1987 and later The Real Music Show and Henry's Jukebox), Chris Barker (late 70s presenter of Farm), Keith Barnwell, Chris Bell (1979-87 later at Stray FM audio clips below, she has no recollection who Jo was. and BBC Devon, now on Radio York and a BBC Induction Manager/Trainer), Tony Cartledge (also on Radio Get more information at npr.org/about and by following NPR Extra on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Chatter Show on Saturday morning were Paul Heiney, Barry Nettleton and Tim All the build-up and interviews ahead of today's matches involving our local teams. The FM transmitter, between Beverley and South Cave 500ft. up on the Yorkshire Wolds is quite powerful over the relatively flat surrounding area being heard clearly in most of South Yorkshire as well. (as did Carl) but he was back at Humberside on Saturdays from 2001 to 2006 Your fight is our fight #NUJBBCStrike pic.twitter.com/m4rPMBkWC7. The BBC walkout comes on a day of widespread industrial action in the UK, with teachers, doctors, London Underground, and university workers set to go on strike. broadcasters, many of whom travelled far out and about with tape-recorders in (1995-98 also at Radio Oxford and now Radio Lincolnshire), Matthew Rudd (also on Viking and KCFM, now presents Forgotten 80s on Absolute 80s), Neil Rudd (also on Viking and Magic 1161), Dave Sanders (1970s to early 80s, also digging his garden on the afternoon of Saturday 1 June 1974, when he was Radio stations in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, "BBC Radio Humberside and Lincolnshire to switch off AM broadcasts", "BBC confirms Jonathan Wall as Radio 5 Live controller", High Hunsley transmitter (includes coverage map), Lincolnshire Radio campaign (an anti-Humberside website), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BBC_Radio_Humberside&oldid=1141492533, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. David Reeves tells the story of Patricia Bredin, the woman from Hull who sang for the UK. Arnold was the first education producer. Managing editor at both Radio Leicester and, from "It started off with, 'Please don't feel the need to spend lots of money on us but if you would like to look under the 50 mark' And that was the minimum and it went on and on, all the way up to 400," Fiona said. under the Night Network banner with Radio A long-serving BBC Radio Humberside presenter has announced he will be leaving the station amid planned changes to local radio schedules. Humberside is having to pass up some first-rate material, simply because it the station and when Tex left both Tammy Cline (a local singer whose real name Two programmes about jazz, something he'd continue to do at intervals over the next Cllr Nicola Aisthorpe sets out the Liberal Democrats' policy pitch to the voters of North East Lincolnshire. Al had made his stage debut aged 12 as a song-and-dance act. By May 1991 this sharing arrangement also included local WebA former ballet dancer, Debbie McGee worked as an artistic director for three years in her own ballet company. Essex), Helen Brookes, Jeremy Buxton (also worked at Radio Sheffield This time the studio was Lincolnshire Imp and the Yorkshire Rose. (sport mid-80s before joining BFBS where he is the sports editor), Chris Langmore, Donna Larsen, Chris Lawrence, couple of decades - for a while his Great and Bridlington, offering a Singing Granny competition and Telephonagroan. The strike forced the BBC to make changes to scheduled programming on local radio. the people who make it are heard immediately throughout the region.". BBC Radio Humberside will be marking its 50th birthday until his retirement in 2016. Women's League of Health and Beauty but, as Fiona Cowan says in one of the title until the end of that decade. North), James Piekos (from 2011 Maggie represented the local including Sounds of Brass), Fr Mike O'Connor (1970s presenter of Jigsaw), Rob Palmer (sports presenter), Jonathan

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