BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cambridgeshire. It broadcasts from its studios in Cambridge on 96 (Madingley, close to the A428/A1303 junction five miles west of Cambridge) and 95.7 (Morborne, south-west of Peterborough, two miles west of the A1 near Norman Cross) FM, 1026MW (Chesterton Fen, close to the A14 and Fen Ditton north-east of Cambridge), DAB, and via its web page using Real Player. It started broadcasting on May 1st 1982. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Digital audio broadcasting or DAB is a developing technology for broadcasting audio programming in digital form. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... BBC Local Radio is the BBCs regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... The traditional counties as usually portrayed. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Madingley is a village on the western outskirts of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. ... Sign at Junction 1 of the A1(M) at South Mimms in Hertfordshire The A1, at 409 miles (658 km) long, is the longest numbered British road. ... At the Norman Cross roundabout at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire stands a memorial: a towering brass eagle upon a concrete column and plinth, with brass nameplate. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM radio, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... The A14 is a major road in England, running from Felixstowe to the junction of the M1 and M6 motorways near Rugby. ... Digital audio broadcasting or DAB is a developing technology for broadcasting audio programming in digital form. ... RealPlayer is a media player, created by RealNetworks, that plays a number of multimedia formats including multiple generations of RealAudio and RealVideo codecs as well as MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, etc. ...

Chris Morris started his radio career here, testing the management's level of humour. A group of Cambridge University doctors and researchers started a Sunday evening show called the 'Naked Scientists', which asked for listeners' questions on science. A new series launches from October 2005. The Naked Scientists also have a website, with previous programmes available in streamed and podcast formats, and their previous series is in the iTunes music store top 100 podcasts. The Naked Scientists is also broadcast across the BBC East region comprising eight local BBC radio stations in the east of England. Chris Morris in The Day Today Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965) is a British comedy writer, satirist and radio DJ. Morris was born in Cambridgeshire; both his parents were doctors. ... REDIRECT [1] ...

From 7 - 10am, there are two breakfast shows - Steve Riches from Cambridge and Andy Burrows from Peterborough. Other programmes include Sue Dougan from 1 - 4pm each weekday, who used to be the mainstay on the Evening Show on BBC local radio in the south; and Ronnie Barbour on Saturdays from 12 - 2pm, who does the weekday morning show on Radio Wiltshire In the evening on weekdays, BBC local radio stations in the Look East area join up with Halifax-born Nick Lawrence from 7pm and Squadron Leader Keith Skues from 10pm, who both broadcast from Norwich. BBC Radio Wiltshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Wiltshire, which began as BBC Wiltshire Sound on April 4th 1989. ... BBC Look East is the BBCs regional television news programme for the eastern region, which is comprised of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk (note this differs from the political East of England region). ... Halifax is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, northern England, with a population of about 90,000. ... A Squadron Leaders sleeve/shoulder insignia Squadron Leader is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries. ... Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch or Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ...

The 95.7FM signal is by far the strongest. Unfortunately on 30th October 2004, a fire broke out (thought to be arson) 80ft up the main Peterborough mast, 1 mile west of Morborne, and the heat caused the whole mast to collapse. A shorter BT Group plc tower with microwave transmission dishes next to it was undamaged. The 95.7FM signal was put out of action for a few weeks, though has been reinstated. The transmitter is yet to be replaced. The Madingley transmitter also carries Q103 FM and Vibe FM 105-108 on 105.6FM. This article needs to be wikified. ... BT Group plc (which trades as BT or British Telecommunications, and is commonly (and erroneously) referred to as British Telecom) is the privatised former British state telecommunications operator. ... Q103 Q103 Cambridge is a radio station broadcasting to Cambridge on 103. ... Vibe 105-108 is a radio station based in Bury St. ...

External links

• BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
• Media UK - BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
• History of local radio in Cambridgeshire.
• Naked Scientists.
• MDS975's transmitter coverage.
• Chesterton Fen mast.
• Madingley mast.
• Peterborough mast.