reading broadcast area berkshire north hampshire and south oxfordshire slogan people you know travel you trust frequency 94.6 mhz 95.4 mhz 104.1 mhz 104.4 mhz dab 12d freeview 719 first air date tuesday 21 january 1992 format local news talk and music language s english audience share 4.8 % june 2016 rajar owner bbc local radio bbc south bbc london e. berks website bbc radio berkshire bbc radio berkshire is the bbc local radio service for the english county of berkshire north hampshire and south oxfordshire . radio berkshire broadcasts on 94.6 henley on thames 95.4 windsor 104.1 hannington and 104.4 reading fm from its studios at caversham park near reading . the station is also available on dab freeview and through live streaming on the internet also on demand for thirty days after broadcast through the bbc iplayer . contents 1 history 2 branding 3 awards 4 transmitters 5 programming 6 references 7 external links history edit the station began on 21 january 1992 starting as a sister station of radio oxford broadcasting for part of the weekday and weekend mornings . due to financial cutbacks bbc director general john birt announced that it was to merge with bbc radio oxford on 9 april 1996 to become bbc thames valley fm . on 14 february 2000 the two stations became separate once again . branding edit the jingles used were the same as those formerly used by radio sheffield provided by bespoke music of penryn in cornwall . currently bbc radio berkshire now use the generic bbc local radio jingle by mcasso music production . awards edit bbc radio berkshire was named station of the year in the 2012 frank gillard awards also winning in the sports coverage category for its coverage of olympic rowing at eton dorney . andrew peach won silver in both the programme presenter and the ultimate hot seat categories . 1 in the 2013 sony radio academy awards the andrew peach programme won bronze in the category breakfast show of the year under 10 million . 2 transmitters edit the hannington transmitter for bbc radio berkshire s 104.1 fm frequency is located on cottington hill close to watership down . along with the bbc s signal it also carries television channels and heart berkshire on 102.9 fm . the 104.1 fm signal can be heard over most of hampshire certainly more than bbc radio solent . the fountain house transmitter carries heart berkshire on 97 fm and bbc radio berkshire on 104.4 fm since 1991 . the henley on thames transmitter which carries bbc radio berkshire on 94.6 fm also carries heart berkshire on 103.4 fm . the windsor transmitter carries bbc radio berkshire on 95.4 fm . since 31 july 2004 dab broadcasts have come from the now digital berkshire & north hampshire 12d multiplex from coppid beech at the junction of the b3408 and a329 m in west bracknell hannington and hemdean just north of caversham . the basingstoke dab transmitter between cliddesden and winslade near the a339 in hampshire was added on 3 october 2005 . since june 2016 bbc radio berkshire has been available on freeview channel 719 from television transmitters in the region . 3 the station essentially covers the m4 corridor . programming edit the majority of the station s programming is produced and broadcast from reading . during off peak hours bbc radio berkshire also carries regional programming for the south and south east regions produced from sister stations bbc radio solent bbc radio kent and bbc radio oxford . as with all bbc local radio stations it also airs the networked weekday evening shows originating from bbc radio leeds and produced independently by wire free productions . during the station s downtime bbc radio berkshire simulcasts bbc radio 5 live overnight . the station s local presenters include andrew peach susanne courtney anne diamond bill buckley and phil kennedy on weekdays with weekend presenters including paul coia and debbie mcgee . references edit berkshire wins gillard station of the year . radio today . 18 october 2012 . retrieved 20 october 2012 . sony radio academy awards the winners 2013 breakfast show of the year under 10 million . the radio academy . retrieved 13 may 2013 . bbc local radio services . digital uk . retrieved 1 july 2016 . external links edit official website v t e bbc local radio east bbc essex radio cambridgeshire radio norfolk radio northampton radio suffolk three counties radio east midlands radio derby radio leicester radio nottingham east yorkshire and lincolnshire radio humberside radio lincolnshire north west radio lancashire radio manchester radio merseyside north east and cumbria bbc tees bbc newcastle radio cumbria south east radio kent bbc surrey bbc sussex south radio berkshire radio oxford radio solent london radio london south west and the channel islands radio cornwall radio devon radio guernsey radio jersey west radio bristol radio gloucestershire bbc somerset bbc wiltshire west midlands bbc wm bbc coventry & warwickshire bbc hereford and worcester radio shropshire radio stoke 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