BBC Radio Guernsey is the BBC Local Radio service for the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Alderney. It broadcasts from its studios in St Sampsons on 93.2 FM and 1116 AM. BBC Local Radio is the BBCs regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations. ... The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. ... Flag of Alderney Alderney (French Aurigny) is the most northerly of the Channel Islands and a British crown dependency. ... 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... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ...
A contemporary music station, BBCRadio 1, was launched in 1967 in response to pirate radio stations (most of which closed on or before the introduction of new legislation on 15 August, 1967), and the present numbered names were adopted on the same day, 30 September, 1967.
BBC ONE is the home to the BBC's main news bulletins, currently being shown at 1pm, 6pm and 10pm GMT (or British Summer Time, depending on the time of the year).
In March 2003 the BBC announced that from the end of May 2003 (subsequently deferred to July 14) it intended to transmit all eight of its domestic television channels (including the 15 regional variations of BBC ONE) unencrypted from the Astra 2D satellite.