Talk:BBC Local Radio

England High‑importance

	England portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject EnglandTemplate:WikiProject EnglandEngland-related articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

BBC Top‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject BBC, an attempt to better organise information in articles related to the BBC. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join us as a member. You can also visit the BBC Portal.BBCWikipedia:WikiProject BBCTemplate:WikiProject BBCBBC articles

Top

This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tasks for WikiProject BBC:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Improve BBC, BBC News (TV channel) and BBC News to Good Article status following previous reviews, create BBC Computer Literacy Project (in light of forthcoming 30th anniversary)
Cleanup : Chucklevision - references and general clean-up, Pebble Mill Studios - over-detailed and long, BBC World Service Television - unreferenced and confusing
Copyedit : BBC News, Broadcasting House
Expand : Top 20 start-class BBC articles with most importance: BBC Japan, BBC World Service Television, BBC Lifestyle, BBC Two Northern Ireland
NPOV : Criticism of the BBC (See comments)
Stubs : Stub-Class BBC articles
Other : *Restructure the category
- Add infoboxes to the BBC articles without infoboxes
- Add free-use images to biographical articles where possible
- Add references to Goa Mix (see assessment) and Coat of arms of the BBC
- Return Dad's Army to a Good article. (See comments)
- Reassess BBC following improvements to article.

Radio: UK Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Radio, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Radio-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RadioWikipedia:WikiProject RadioTemplate:WikiProject RadioRadio articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

This page is within the scope of the UK Radio taskforce. New members are always welcome!

To-do List:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Create: Missing years and articles in radio, National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (Hungary)
Assess : Unassessed Radio articles; Unknown-importance Radio articles
Cleanup : Radio articles needing attention
Expand : Midweek Politics Bob Crane
Maintain : Portal:Radio
Stubs : Expand: Radio stubs
Verify : Unreferenced BLPs
Other : Collaboration of the Week:
Requests for Radio peer review:

Radio Stations Mid‑importance

	Radio portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Radio Stations, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of radio stations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Radio StationsWikipedia:WikiProject Radio StationsTemplate:WikiProject Radio StationsRadio station articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

BBC Local Radio ViLoR system shutdown

What stations fell off the air when this happened?

The BBC's new virtual local radio station system caused 18 stations to fall off air on Friday.

Faults with the broadcaster's ViLoR system on Friday morning forced 18 local stations including BBC Radio Derby, Leicester and Suffolk off-air, with affected stations defaulting to a relay of BBC Radio 5 Live. A back-up system was in place by late morning allowing stations back on-air on FM and DAB, but web streams and Freeview continued to experience problems for longer.

Branding of BBC Local Radio stations in England

i have noticed that with the newer logos of BBC Local Radio in England, the stations seem to be styled without 'Radio' in the title e.g. BBC Manchester instead of BBC Radio Manchester, and it is reflective of this on the BBC Local Radio pages on the BBC website, should the pages be altered to reflect this?,
James50567 (talk) 02:17, 13 January 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Well, there seems to be no clear answer to that. While it is true that some of the BBC LR stations do not have the word "radio" in their titles, and that many of the BBC's website pages do not use the word on pages that refer to stations that DO, nevertheless, have "radio" in their names, I suspect that the latter phenomenon is probably more a question of central corporate web-styling than anything else, since the majority of BBC LR stations continue to be known as "BBC Radio (place)". I've just spent a couple of hours listening to all 40 of them, and I list below how they each announce themselves on air as of December 2010. -- Picapica (talk) 23:09, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BBC Radio Berkshire
BBC Radio Bristol
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
BBC Radio Cornwall
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Radio Cumbria
BBC Radio Derby
BBC Radio Devon
BBC Essex
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
BBC Guernsey
BBC Hereford & Worcester
BBC Radio Humberside
BBC Jersey
BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Leicester
BBC Lincolnshire
BBC London 94.9
BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Merseyside
BBC Newcastle
BBC Radio Norfolk
BBC Radio Northampton
BBC Radio Nottingham
BBC Radio Oxford
BBC Radio Sheffield
BBC Radio Shropshire
BBC Radio Solent
BBC Somerset
BBC Radio Stoke
BBC Radio Suffolk
BBC Surrey
BBC Sussex
BBC Tees
BBC Three Counties Radio
BBC Wiltshire
BBC WM