BBC Radio Nottingham

Radio Nottingham is broadcast on three FM frequencies:

• 103.8 to Nottingham and south Nottinghamshire, from Mapperley Ridge in north Nottingham
• 95.5 to Mansfield from Fishponds Hill
• 95.1 to Newark from Beacon Hill (since January 2004)

The Mansfield signal is strong enough to be heard as far north as Scunthorpe, far outside Nottinghamshire. The Nottingham signal may be heard as far south as Leicester.

Since 30 April 2004, the station has been available on DAB from the NDEM (NOW Digital East Midlands) Nottingham 12C multiplex from Waltham (main signal and in Leicestershire), Mapperley Ridge and Fishponds Hill (since July 2006).

BBC Radio Nottingham also broadcasts on Freeview TV channel 720 in both the BBC East Midlands region and the BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region and streams online via BBC Sounds.

The station used to broadcast a AM Medium Wave signal on 1584 kHz, from Clipstone, near Mansfield, until 25 January 2018 when the transmitter was turned off. This followed a trial, to determine if listeners would miss or complain about the loss of services on medium wave, from 17 August to 24 September 2012 when BBC Radio Nottingham stopped broadcasting its normal programmes on medium wave, instead directing listeners to FM or DAB.[2]

North Nottinghamshire, covering the district of Bassetlaw including the towns of Retford and Worksop, is officially covered by the signals carrying BBC Radio Sheffield, although editorially, news for this area is covered by BBC Radio Nottingham, and FM reception (and to a lesser extent DAB and Freeview) is possible in these areas.

Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's Nottingham studios from 6am to 10pm on Mondays to Thursdays and from 6am to 1am on Fridays to Sundays.

On Monday to Thursday nights, the 10pm to 1am late show, originates from BBC Radio WM. At weekends, the station's evening output is simulcast with BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Leicester.

During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Nottingham simulcasts overnight programming from BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio London.

The nearest BBC TV news is East Midlands Today, who share the studios on London Road (A60) in Nottingham with the BBC Radio Nottingham team. The studio used to be in a building (York House) near the Victoria Centre on Mansfield Road before 1998. That building was then used by Nottingham Trent University as the Centre for Broadcast Journalism as the base for the Nottingham Trent International College. York House was demolished in May 2015 to make way for proposed future extensions to the Victoria Centre, however a block of student flats were instead built on the former site.

BBC Radio Nottingham faces local competition from the regional commercial stations Gem and Smooth East Midlands, which are broadcast from Nottingham-based studios to the wider East Midlands. Trent FM, Nottingham's heritage commercial radio station, was merged with Leicester Sound and Ram FM in January 2011 to form a regional station Capital East Midlands, which carries a mix of local and networked output. In the Mansfield area commercial station Mansfield 103.2 exists, also transmitted from Fishponds Hill.

Listeners north of Worksop and Retford, are catered for by BBC Radio Sheffield broadcasting on 104.1 FM from the Holme Moss transmitter.

• BBC Radio Nottingham
• Local news
• The Beat programme on BBC Radio Nottingham
• Behind the scenes of BBC Radio Nottingham's Matchday
• History of local radio in Nottinghamshire
• Reception map
• David's Transmitter World
• Studio webcam
• Clipstone transmitter
• Mansfield (Fishponds Hill) transmitter
• Mapperley Ridge transmitter
• Newark transmitter
• Ciao – The Beat