- BBC Radio Durham
BBC Radio Durham was a BBC local radio station set up in 1968.
Background
BBC Radio Durham was part of the
BBC 's original plan to have 9 sites where local radio experiments would be carried out. It is the only one of the original stations to have fully closed down.It opened on 31st July 1968, but after the government restricted the BBC to 20 local radio stations, the corporation responded by ceasing transmissions on 25th August 1972. Its resources were transferred to
Carlisle whereBBC Radio Cumbria was formed.It was the only one of the original stations to cover a county rather than a city. When the BBC opened
Radio Newcastle which covered the north of the county as well, then Radio Cleveland which covered Teesside and the south of County Durham, it was sandwiched between the two.County Durham is now covered byBBC Radio Newcastle andBBC Tees .Former
BBC News correspondentKate Adie worked at Radio Durham, before joiningBBC Radio Bristol in 1970. [cite web
url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/kate-adie-where-is-kate-when-her-country-needs-her-631262.html
title=Kate Adie: Where is Kate when her country needs her?
publisher=The Independent
date=2001-10-14
accessdate=2008-09-22] John Donaldson, perhaps less known than Kate Adie, went on from Radio Durham to become a familiar voice reading the news onBBC Radio 4 .fact|date=September 2008References
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