BBC Coventry and Warwickshire is the BBC Local Radio service serving the City of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire.
BBC Local Radio in the 1990s underwent an expansion programme where counties and other areas without a local radio station were identified and five stations were to launch: BBC Radio Surrey, BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBCWiltshireSound and BBC Radio Warwickshire.
The BBC, under Director-General John Birt, deemed that CWR was not sufficiently successful in audience terms to warrant its continuation, and within incresing financial contraints in February 1995 CWR was to close.