BBC Radio Cleveland
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BBC Radio Cleveland is the BBC Local Radio service for the English areas of Teesside, County Durham and some of North Yorkshire. Launched in 1971 as Radio Teesside, it now broadcasts from its studios in Middlesbrough on 95.0 (Bilsdale Moor), 95.8 (Whitby) FM and DAB. It became known as Radio Cleveland on 1 April 1974, when the county of Cleveland was formed, and moved to new offices in 1983. On April 1 1996, the county of Cleveland split into Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland. These four boroughs along with nearby Darlington now form of the marketing-friendly, nicer-sounding Tees Valley. Also included in the main listening area is the Army's main garrison at Catterick Garrison,
The signal on 95FM is relatively strong and comes from the 900ft Bilsdale transmitter on the North York Moors. This transmits the main television signals for Teesside and North Yorkshire, and national radio frequencies, as well as the commercial stations TFM on 96.6FM, 100-102 Century FM on 100.7FM and Galaxy 105-106 on 106.4FM. Radio Cleveland has greater coverage than these independent stations. The Whitby transmitter also has the independent station Yorkshire Coast Radio on 103.1FM.
From 7pm until 10pm on weekdays, and from early evening until 12am on weekends, the station combines its output with BBC local radio in North England, namely Radio Newcastle and Radio Cumbria.