BBC Radio Durham
BBC Radio Durhamwas a BBC local radio station set up in 1968.
Background[edit]
BBC Radio Durham was part of theBBC's original plan to have nine sites where local radio experiments would be carried out. It is the only one of the original stations to have fully closed down.
It opened on 3 July 1968,[1]but after the government restricted the BBC to twenty local radio stations, the corporation responded by ceasing transmissions on 25 August 1972. Its resources were transferred toCarlislewhere BBC Radio Carlisle, nowBBC Radio Cumbria,was formed.
It was the only one of the original stations to cover a county rather than a city. When the BBC opened Radio Newcastle which covered the north of the county and Radio Teesside (later Radio Cleveland and now BBC Tees) covered the south, it was sandwiched between the two.
The northern part ofCounty Durhamis now covered byBBC Radio Newcastle,with the southern part served byBBC Radio Tees.
FormerBBC NewscorrespondentKate Adieworked at Radio Durham, before joiningBBC Radio Bristolin 1970.[2]Other presenters included Mike Hollingsworth,[3]Eileen McCabe[4]and Barbara Bailey.[5]
References[edit]
- ^"The origins of BBC local radio".BBC. Archived fromthe originalon 16 June 2015.Retrieved1 July2018.
- ^"Kate Adie: Where is Kate when her country needs her?".The Independent.14 October 2001. Archived fromthe originalon 14 June 2008.Retrieved22 September2008.
- ^Kate Adie (25 October 2012).The Autobiography: The Kindness of Strangers.Headline. pp. 37–.ISBN978-0-7553-6449-7.
- ^David Whetstone (6 January 2015)."Former TV presenter Eileen McCabe from South Tyneside dies aged 69".Evening Chronicle Live.Retrieved1 July2018.
- ^James Entwistle (24 May 2018)."The Girls in the VHF Set".Evening Transdiffusion Broadcasting System.Retrieved1 July2018.
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