BBC Radio Cornwall
BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cornwall.

It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Phoenix Wharf in Truro.

According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 105,000 listeners and a 14.2% share as of June 2023.

Overview
Prior to its launch on 17 January 1983, local radio services for Cornwall had amounted to a regional weekday breakfast show Morning Sou'West on the frequencies of BBC Radio 4 in Devon and Cornwall plus five-minute regional bulletins at lunchtime and teatime with no regional bulletins of any kind on Sundays.

Initially, Radio Cornwall shared an afternoon programme with BBC Radio Devon, but now sustains up to 16 hours a day of local programming.

BBC Radio Cornwall can be heard on 95.2 MHz in the east, 96.0 MHz on the Isles of Scilly and 103.9 MHz in the west, as well as on DAB. It was also broadcast on 630 kHz and 657 kHz AM until 2 March 2020, when those transmitters were closed for cost savings.

The station also broadcasts on Freeview TV channel 721 in the BBC South West region and streams online via BBC Sounds.

Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's Truro studios from 6 am to 10 pm on weekdays, from 6 am to 1 am on Saturdays and from 6 am to 2 pm on Sundays.

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 and BBC Radio Somerset

David White's Boogie Wonderland show on Saturdays between 10 pm to 1 am is also broadcast to stations in the BBC South West and BBC West regions.

Off-peak programming, including the Sunday late show from 10 pm to 1 am, originates from BBC Radio Devon in Plymouth. The weekday late show from 10 pm to 1 am originates from BBC Radio Gloucestershire in Gloucester

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

Cornish language output
Radio Cornwall is one of two radio stations to have broadcast programmes in the Cornish language. A five-minute news show, An Nowodhow, used to be broadcast every Sunday.

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, was introduced.

Presenters

Notable past presenters
Rod Lyon
Caroline Righton
Jonathan Samuels (now at Sky News)
Brenda Wootton

See also

List of topics related to Cornwall
Pirate FM
Heart West
Radyo an Gernewegva
Cornish media
List of Celtic-language media
NOW Cornwall Multiplex

References

External links
 BBC Radio Cornwall

Cornwall
Companies based in Cornwall
Radio stations in Cornwall
1983 establishments in the United Kingdom