# BBC Radio Cornwall > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/BBC_Radio_Cornwall > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/BBC_Radio_Cornwall.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_Cornwall > Source revision: 1349996507 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **BBC Radio Cornwall** is the [BBC's local radio station](/source/BBC_Local_Radio) serving the duchy of [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall). It broadcasts on [FM](/source/Frequency_modulation), [DAB](/source/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting), digital TV and via [BBC Sounds](/source/BBC_Sounds) from studios at Phoenix Wharf in [Truro](/source/Truro). According to [RAJAR](/source/RAJAR), the station has a weekly audience of 92,000 listeners of May 2025.[1] ## Overview Until 31 December 1982, local radio services for [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall) had amounted to a regional weekday breakfast show *[Morning Sou'West](/source/Morning_Sou'West)*, aired on [BBC Radio 4](/source/BBC_Radio_4)'s frequencies in [Devon](/source/Devon) and Cornwall, plus five-minute regional bulletins on Saturday mornings and Mondays to Saturdays at lunchtime and teatime. There was no regional output on Sundays. On 17 January 1983, BBC Radio Cornwall (and [BBC Radio Devon](/source/BBC_Radio_Devon)) launched, although for its first few years on air, both stations shared an afternoon programme. ## Technical BBC Radio Cornwall is broadcasts on 95.2 MHz for [East Cornwall](/source/Cornwall) from the [Caradon Hill transmitting station](/source/Caradon_Hill_transmitting_station) located on [Bodmin Moor](/source/Bodmin_Moor), 96.0 MHz on the [Isles of Scilly](/source/Isles_of_Scilly) and 103.9 MHz from [Redruth transmitting station](/source/Redruth_transmitting_station) located on [Lanner Hill](/source/Lanner,_Cornwall) for [West Cornwall](/source/West_Cornwall_(UK_region)), as well as on [DAB](/source/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting). It was also broadcast on 630 kHz and 657 kHz [AM](/source/AM_broadcasting) until 2 March 2020, when those transmitters were closed for cost savings.[2] The station also broadcasts on [Freeview](/source/Freeview_(UK)) TV channel 713 in the [BBC South West](/source/BBC_South_West) region and streams online via [BBC Sounds](/source/BBC_Sounds). ## Programming Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's [Truro](/source/Truro) studios from 6 am to 2 pm on weekdays and from 10 am to 6 pm on Saturdays. Daniel Pascoe's show (Saturdays 6 pm to 8 pm) and his BBC Introducing show (Saturdays 8 pm to 10 pm) are both broadcast to [BBC Radio Devon](/source/BBC_Radio_Devon) and [BBC Radio Somerset](/source/BBC_Radio_Somerset). David White's Boogie Wonderland show used to be broadcast on Saturdays between 10 pm to 1 am and was also broadcast to stations in the [BBC South West](/source/BBC_South_West) and [BBC West](/source/BBC_West) regions. This programme, along with all other late night regional programming, ended on 7 October 2023 due to BBC cutbacks, and was replaced with a networked England-wide late show which broadcasts every night of the week. During the station's overnight downtime, BBC Radio Cornwall simulcasts [BBC Radio 5 Live](/source/BBC_Radio_5_Live) ### Cornish language output Radio Cornwall is one of two radio stations to have broadcast programmes in the [Cornish language](/source/Cornish_language). A five-minute weekly news bulletin, *An Nowodhow*, is broadcast every Sunday at 1.55pm.[3][4] When Radio Cornwall was first set up Cornish language content was limited to around 2 minutes per week. In 1987, a new weekly 15-minute-long bilingual show, Kroeder Kroghan, detailing Celtic cultural events taking place in [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall), was introduced.[5] ## Presenters ### Notable past presenters - [Rod Lyon](/source/Rod_Lyon) - [Caroline Righton](/source/Caroline_Righton) - [Jonathan Samuels](/source/Jonathan_Samuels) (now at [Sky News](/source/Sky_News)) - [Brenda Wootton](/source/Brenda_Wootton) - Richard Grace (BA Hons History 2021, MA Archives and Records Management) ## See also - [List of topics related to Cornwall](/source/List_of_topics_related_to_Cornwall) - [Rewind Radio](/source/Rewind_Radio) - [Hits Radio Cornwall](/source/Hits_Radio_Cornwall) - [Heart West](/source/Heart_West) - [Radyo an Gernewegva](/source/Radyo_an_Gernewegva) - [Cornish media](/source/Cornish_media) - [List of Celtic-language media](/source/List_of_Celtic-language_media) - [NOW Cornwall Multiplex](/source/NOW_Cornwall_Multiplex) ## References 1. ["RAJAR"](http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php). RAJAR. Retrieved 2023-10-26. 1. ["BBC Blog - Further changes to some BBC local radio medium wave services"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Faboutthebbc%2Fentries%2F8bda7cd8-fdf8-41f5-8f3c-212cf5f7c86f). BBC. 13 January 2020. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200514103442/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/8bda7cd8-fdf8-41f5-8f3c-212cf5f7c86f) 14 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 5 March 2021. 1. Diarmuid O'Néill, *Rebuilding the Celtic Languages: reversing language shift in the Celtic countries*, 2005 1. John T. Koch, *Celtic Culture: a historical encyclopedia*, 2006 1. Martin John Ball, James Fife, *The Celtic Languages*, 1993 ## External links - [BBC Radio Cornwall](https://archive.today/20130419190156/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocornwall/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [BBC Radio Cornwall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_Cornwall) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_Cornwall?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.