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BBC Radio Devon

BBC Radio Devon is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Devon. It began transmissions on 17 January 1983, replacing a previous breakfast show (Morning Sou'West) for Devon and Cornwall broadcast on the local frequencies of Radio 4.

Programming

The breakfast show is presented by Matt Woodley, who had previously moved to a managerial role at the station, but is now back as part of the presentation team.

Since 2004 the weekend opt-out programmes for Plymouth have been joined by a weekday breakfast show for the city - in common with a number of other BBC local stations which have also introduced sub-regional opt-outs.

Philip Hunt's Sounds of Brass, broadcast every Sunday at 7pm, comes from the Plymouth studios. After 7pm each weekday, local radio in the Spotlight TV news area joins up until 1am. At the weekends, most local BBC radio stations in the South West and West regions have the same programming from 6pm onwards.

Frequencies

Radio Devon is broadcast on the following frequencies from BBC Broadcasting House in Plymouth and St. David's Hill in Exeter (transmitter location in brackets):

103.4MHz countywide (North Hessary Tor)
94.8MHz in North Devon (Huntshaw Cross)
95.7MHz in Plymouth
95.8MHz in Exeter (St. Thomas)
96.0MHz in West Devon (Okehampton)
104.3MHz in Torbay and the South Hams (Beacon Hill)

AM (MW):

801 kHz in North Devon (Barnstaple)
990 kHz in Exeter
855 kHz in Plymouth (this frequency is currently being used for a trial of broadcasting by DRM and is not available in analogue)
1458 kHz in Torbay

DAB - available in Exeter, Honiton and Torbay.

Note: AM radio broadcasts often opt-out of the main Radio Devon programming to broadcast coverage of local sports events; for example, Gordon Sparks provides coverage of every Plymouth Argyle league game on the 855kHz (Plymouth) frequency.

BBC Radio Devon can also be heard online using the RealPlayer media player.