2BR

Radio station


name=2BR
airdate= July 25 2000
frequency=99.8 MHz
share = 13.0%
share as of = September 2007
share source = [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php]
erp=0.75kW
area= Burnley, Pendle, Hyndburn
slogan=Burnley, Hyndburn & Pendle's 99.8fm 2BR
branding=99.8fm 2BR
format =Contemporary|owner = Local Radio Company
webcast= [http://www.2br.co.uk/page.aspx?id=13 Choice of Streams]
website=http://www.2br.co.uk

2BR is a commercial radio station in East Lancashire. It broadcasts from studios in the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate in Nelson.

The station is broadcast from the Pendle Forest transmitter on Pendle Hill in Newchurch-in-Pendle, near Fence, just convert|1.5|mi|km|1 to the north-west of the studio.

They play a wide variety of music in line with all radio stations owned by Local Radio Company.

The station provides news and sport updates throughout the day as well as traffic updates. The station also provides live commentary of all competitive Burnley F.C. matches both home and away.

Programming

99.8fm 2br broadcasts live from its own studio's on the lomeshaye business village between 6am-7pm weekdays and on Saturdays between 9am-10pm opting out of network programming between 5pm-8pm for its own 'Party Anthems' show and between 8pm-10pm for 'Asian Beat'. On Sundays Programming is broadcast from its studio's between 10am-2pm before the station goes into network for 'Money on your mobile' (2pm-4pm) and 'Hit40UK' (4pm-7pm)

Until Recently weekend breakfast shows were also broadcast live from the station but as of 10th May 2008 these were scrapped for network programming by station owners TLRC (The Local Radio Company)

External links

* [http://www.2br.co.uk/ 2BR's Official Website]
* [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/pendle-forest.asp Pendle Forest Transmitter] (The ILR (Independent Local Radio (Station)) mentioned refers to 2BR.)

Name misnomer

Although the station's name refers to the "2 Boroughs" of Burnley and Pendle, the station also covers Hyndburn. Additionally, the station is known colloquially as "2 Bloody Records" owing to its tendency to replay the same music throughout the day, causing once liked songs to lose their appealFact|date=May 2008.

Broadcasting stations in the United Kingdom do not use callsigns, but as "2" is a prefix assigned by the ITU to callsigns in Great Britain, 2BR is technically a valid radio callsign in the U.K.