broadcast area blackburn east lancashire preston leyland and chorley slogan lancashire s more music station frequency 96.3 106.5 and 107.0 mhz first air date 1 october 2005 last air date 26 may 2016 format hot ac audience share 4.3 % owner ukrd sister stations 2br the bee was a local radio station serving southern and eastern parts of lancashire . on friday 27 may 2016 the bee merged with its sister lancashire station 2br . 1 the station was owned and operated by ukrd and broadcast from studios at clayton le moors in accrington . on 27 may 2016 the bee merged with its sister lancashire station 2br . 2 history edit the bee initially broadcast to the blackburn darwen and accrington areas under rsl licences in 2001 and 2002 before winning a permanent licence in december 2004 . the station founded by roy martin launched full time on 1 october 2005 . its investors included neighbouring station 2br the radio business and local shareholders . initially based at dalton court in darwen the station moved to petre court in clayton le moors in august 2010 co locating with 2br . at 7pm on 17 june 2011 the station began broadcasting to the preston leyland and chorley areas on 106.5 fm following the sale and subsequent closure of 106.5 central radio . a further relay 96.3 fm for the chorley area went on air in 2012 . 3 on 4 april 2016 ukrd announced the bee would be closed and merged with its sister east lancashire station 2br as part of an expansion onto dab . the merged station carries the same 2br programming and identity with opt outs for local news traffic and advertising in the burnley blackburn and preston & chorley areas . 4 frequencies edit 96.3 fm chorley 106.5 fm preston and south ribble 107fm blackburn darwen and accrington 5 references edit 2br to merge with the bee and expand on dab radio today 4 april 2016 2br to merge with the bee and expand on dab radio today 4 april 2016 the bee grows bigger with 3rd frequency . radio today . retrieved 2 may 2014 . 2br to merge with the bee and expand on dab radio today 4 april 2016 the bee grows bigger with 3rd frequency . radio today . retrieved 2 may 2014 . v t e ukrd group radio 96.4 eagle radio eagle3 eagle extra kl.fm 96.7 pirate fm pirate 2 star radio cambridge and ely former tlrc stations 2br minster fm mix 96 spire fm spirit fm star radio north east stray fm sun fm wessex fm yorkshire coast radio dab multiplexes muxco north yorkshire muxco surrey & sussex south west digital radio other ukrd support & development first radio sales heart south devon itsmymarket.com savebuckets.com former assets 107 the bee merged with 2br arrow fm central 103.1 fm dune fm isle of wight radio ivel fm nova radio pennine fm 106.9 silk fm sovereign fm the quay vale fm 107.3 abbey fm closed mix 107 closed coordinates 53 46 12 n 2 23 23 w 53.7699 n 2.3897 w 53.7699 ; 2.3897 this article about a radio station in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the bee radio station & oldid 725256488 categories radio stations in lancashiredefunct radio stations in the united kingdomunited kingdom radio station stubshidden categories use dmy dates from august 2012use british english from august 2012coordinates on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 june 2016 at 14 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view