Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire
Broadcast area | Yorkshire Lincolnshire Bassetlaw |
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Frequency | DAB: 10C (N. Yorks) 11B (Bradford and Huddersfield) 11C (S. Yorks) 12A (Lincs) 12D (W. Yorks) Bauer |
History | |
First air date | 1 September 2020 |
Former frequencies | 99.8 (Hull) 828 (Leeds) 990 (Doncaster) 1278 (Bradford) 1305 (Barnsley) 1530 (Huddersfield) 1548 (Sheffield) |
Links | |
Website | GHR York & North Yorkshire GHR West Yorkshire GHR East Yorkshire & Northern Lincolnshire GHR South Yorkshire GHR Harrogate & The Yorkshire Dales GHR Grimsby GHR Lincolnshire GHR Yorkshire Coast |
Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire is a radio station regional sub-network serving
History
Under relaxed OFCOM requirements for local content on commercial radio, Greatest Hits Radio is permitted to share all programming between thirteen licences located in the ITV Yorkshire broadcast region.
Prior to the launch of Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, there were four medium-wave stations:
- Viking Radio, began broadcasting to the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshireon 31 October 1988.
- Radio Hallam, began broadcasting to South Yorkshire and the North Midlandson 1 May 1989.
- Magic 828, a separate service from Radio Aire, began broadcasting to Leeds and West Yorkshire on 17 July 1990.
- Pulse 2 began broadcasting as Pennine Radio to Bradford in September 1975, later expanding to Calderdale and Kirklees.
Ten local FM licences are folded into the regional station:
- Radio Aire began broadcasting to Leeds and West Yorkshire on 1 September 1981.
- Minster FM began broadcasting to York and surrounding areas in July 1992, extending to the Thirsk and Northallerton area four years later.
- Yorkshire Coast Radio began broadcasting to Scarborough, Whitby and surrounding areas in November 1993, before expanding to the Bridlington area in November 1999.
- Stray FM began broadcasting to Harrogate and Ripon in July 1994, before expanding to the Yorkshire Dales in January 2012.
- North Derbyshirein October 1998.
- Trax FM began broadcasting in November 1998, initially providing separate services to Doncaster and Bassetlaw.
- Ridings FM began broadcasting to Wakefield in October 1999.
- Compass FM began broadcasting to Grimsby in June 2001.
- Dearne FM began broadcasting to Barnsley and the Dearne Valley in October 2003.
- Rother FM began broadcasting to Rotherham in October 2006.
In May 2020, Bauer announced it would merge the AM and FM stations to form the Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire sub-network as part of a wider restructuring of its local radio stations.[1]
On 16 July 2020, Bauer announced Radio Aire would close and switch from the Hits Radio network to GHR, merging with the aforementioned stations in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.[2]
The regional station launched on 1 September 2020.
A single DAB-only station for Lincolnshire launched in November 2020.
On 12 November 2023, it was announced that the station's remaining medium wave transmissions, in Doncaster, Barnsley and Sheffield, would cease before the end of the year.[5]
Regional programming
Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Bauer's Leeds studios from 1-4pm on weekdays, presented by Steve Priestley.[6]
News
Bauer’s Leeds, Scarborough and Lincoln newsrooms broadcast local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays and from 7am to 1pm at weekends. Headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside traffic bulletins.
Separate local news and traffic bulletins are produced for the following areas:
- The former Minster FM, Stray FM and Yorkshire Coast Radio licence areas of North Yorkshire and a second split service for the FM frequencies only in Scarborough, Whitby and Bridlington
- Viking FM and the former Compass FMareas
- The ex-Pulse 2 licence area (Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale) and ex-Radio Aire and Ridings FM licence areas of Leeds and Wakefield
- South Yorkshire
Bauer produces its own England and Wales national bulletins on weekend (and public holidays) afternoons. National bulletins from Sky News Radio are carried at other times.
See also
- Greatest Hits Radio Teesside, a sister station broadcasting in the most northerly parts of Yorkshire.
References
- ^ Most of acquired Bauer stations to become Greatest Hits Radio Stuart Clarkson, Radio Today, 27 May 2020
- ^ Radio Aire to become Greatest Hits Radio, Radio Today, 16 July 2020
- ^ Radio Today, 2 September 2020
- ^ RadioToday, 2023-03-01
- ^ Bauer to turn off AM services in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland Radio Today, 12 November 2023
- ^ Greatest Hits Radio regional Drivetime presenters announced Stephen Chapman, Prolific North, 27 August 2020