BBC Radio 3

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BBC Radio 3
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Radio station ( public law )
reception analog terrestrial , cable , satellite , DAB
Reception area United Kingdom (FM, DAB)
Start of transmission September 30, 1967
Broadcaster BBC
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BBC Radio 3 is a radio program of the BBC which broadcasts mainly classical music. There are also music features and, especially in the late evening, sounds from border areas can be heard.

history

The program first went on air (as the BBC's Third Program ) on September 29, 1946. As part of a program reform, the current name “Radio 3” was introduced in September 1967.

BBC Radio 3 is based in the BBC's Broadcasting House in London.

reception

The wave can be received nationwide in the United Kingdom via VHF (90–92 MHz) and DAB digital radio (12B), Europe-wide via satellite and worldwide via an Internet stream . The medium-wave frequencies on which the Test Match Special program was broadcast in particular were given up on February 29, 1992 because they had to be auctioned off to private radio operators as a result of the 1990 Broadcasting Act .

literature

  • Humphrey Carpenter: The envy of the world: Fifty years of the BBC Third Program and Radio 3. 1946–1996 . New York et al. a. Lang, 1996. ISBN 0-297-81720-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. Anniversaries: Radio 3 ends transmissions on Medium Wave February 29, 1992 ( Memento of February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . In: The BBC Story. Anniversaries. BBC website. Without a date. Retrieved February 23, 2012.