BBC CWR, the Glossary

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1. 70 relations: Alex Lester, AM broadcasting, Annie Othen, Atherstone, Barwell, BBC Local Radio, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Radio Surrey, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio WM, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport, BBC West Midlands, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bob Brolly, BRMB, Capital Mid-Counties, Classic Gold, Coleshill, Warwickshire, Coventry, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry City F.C., Coventry R.F.C., Coventry railway station, Digital Audio Broadcasting, Director-General of the BBC, Ed Doolan, English language, FM broadcasting, Free Radio (network), Freeview (UK), Frequency modulation, Gary McSheffrey, Greg Dyke, Hinckley, Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire, Jim Lee (broadcaster), John Birt, Baron Birt, Jon Gaunt, Leamington F.C., Leamington Spa, Les Ross, Malcolm Boyden, Meriden, West Midlands, Nuneaton, Nuneaton Town F.C., ... Expand index (20 more) »

2. BBC Local Radio
3. Coventry
4. Organisations based in Warwickshire
5. Radio stations in Warwickshire
6. Radio stations in the West Midlands (region)

Alex Lester

Alexander Norman Charles Lester (born 11 May 1956) is a British broadcaster.

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AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.

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Annie Othen

Annie Othen is a journalist and broadcaster.

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Atherstone

Atherstone is a market town and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England.

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Barwell

Barwell is a civil parish and large village in Leicestershire, England, with a population of 8,750 residents, Increasing to 9,022 at the 2011 census, the name literally translates as "Stream of the Boar" and is said to originate from a boar that used to drink from the well near a brook in Barwell.

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BBC Local Radio

BBC Local Radio (also referred to as Local BBC Radio) is the BBC's local and regional radio division for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of forty stations.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio Berkshire

BBC Radio Berkshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Berkshire and surrounding areas. BBC CWR and BBC Radio Berkshire are BBC Local Radio.

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BBC Radio London

BBC Radio London is the BBC's local radio station serving Greater London. BBC CWR and BBC Radio London are BBC Local Radio.

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BBC Radio Suffolk

BBC Radio Suffolk is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Suffolk. BBC CWR and BBC Radio Suffolk are 1990 establishments in England, BBC Local Radio and radio stations established in 1990.

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BBC Radio Surrey

BBC Radio Surrey is the BBC's local radio station serving Surrey, north-east Hampshire and north West Sussex (including Gatwick Airport). BBC CWR and BBC Radio Surrey are BBC Local Radio.

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BBC Radio Wiltshire

BBC Radio Wiltshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the English county of Wiltshire. BBC CWR and BBC Radio Wiltshire are BBC Local Radio.

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BBC Radio WM

BBC Radio WM is the BBC's local radio station serving the West Midlands. BBC CWR and BBC Radio WM are BBC Local Radio.

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BBC Sounds

BBC Sounds is a streaming media and audio download service from the BBC that includes live radio broadcasts, audio on demand, and podcasts.

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BBC Sport

BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.

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BBC West Midlands

BBC Midlands (known as the Midland Region from 1927 until c. 1974) is the BBC English Region producing local radio and web content for the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and parts of Gloucestershire.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Blackburn

Blackburn is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England.

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Bob Brolly

Robert Joseph "Bob" Brolly MBE (born 4 October) is a Northern Ireland-born broadcaster, singer and entertainer, and long established personality in the West Midlands region.

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BRMB

BRMB is a British radio station based in Aston, Birmingham, which is owned and operated by Murfin Music International.

See BBC CWR and BRMB

Capital Mid-Counties

Capital Mid-Counties is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. BBC CWR and Capital Mid-Counties are radio stations in Warwickshire and radio stations in the West Midlands (region).

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Classic Gold

Classic Gold was a network of three "Gold" music formatted stations which broadcast on AM in Bradford, Hull and Sheffield.

See BBC CWR and Classic Gold

Coleshill, Warwickshire

Coleshill is a market town and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England, taking its name from the River Cole, on which it stands.

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Coventry

Coventry is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne.

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Coventry Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England.

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Coventry City F.C.

Coventry City Football Club (commonly known as simply Coventry) is a professional football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England.

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Coventry R.F.C.

Coventry Rugby Football Club is a professional rugby union club based in Coventry, England.

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Coventry railway station

Coventry railway station is the main railway station serving the city of Coventry, West Midlands, England.

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Digital Audio Broadcasting

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio standard for broadcasting digital audio radio services in many countries around the world, defined, supported, marketed and promoted by the WorldDAB organisation.

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Director-General of the BBC

The director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC.

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Ed Doolan

Edwin Myer Doolan MBE (20 July 1941 – 16 January 2018) was an Australian born naturalised British radio presenter who was a veteran of Birmingham's first commercial radio station BRMB, and subsequently the BBC.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.

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Free Radio (network)

Free Radio was a regional group of Independent Local Radio stations in the West Midlands, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network. BBC CWR and Free Radio (network) are radio stations in the West Midlands (region).

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Freeview (UK)

Freeview is the United Kingdom's sole digital terrestrial television platform.

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Frequency modulation

Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.

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Gary McSheffrey

Gary McSheffrey (born 13 August 1982) is an English football manager and former player who was most recently manager of club Doncaster Rovers.

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Greg Dyke

Gregory Dyke (born 20 May 1947) is a British media executive, football administrator, journalist and broadcaster.

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Hinckley

Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England.

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Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire

Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire is an Independent Local Radio station based in Birmingham, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. BBC CWR and Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire are Coventry, radio stations in Warwickshire and radio stations in the West Midlands (region).

See BBC CWR and Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire

Jim Lee (broadcaster)

James Lee (born 21 April 1953 in Nuneaton, England) is a freelance continuity announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service as well as providing links for BBC Radio 4 Extra.

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John Birt, Baron Birt

John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944) is a British television executive and businessman.

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Jon Gaunt

Jonathan Charles Gaunt (born 3 March 1961) is an English radio talk show presenter, TV personality, newspaper columnist, social commentator and spokesman.

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Leamington F.C.

Leamington Football Club is a football club based in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.

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Leamington Spa

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply LeamingtonEven more colloquially, also referred to as Lem or Leam.

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Les Ross

Les Ross MBE (born 7 February 1949) is a British disc jockey in the West Midlands.

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Malcolm Boyden

Malcolm George Boyden (born 5 August 1964) is a double Sony Award-winning BBC local radio presenter, who formerly presented the Mid-morning show as well as a Sunday show on BBC Hereford and Worcester.

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Meriden, West Midlands

Meriden is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England.

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Nuneaton

Nuneaton is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire to the north-east.

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Nuneaton Town F.C.

Nuneaton Town Football Club is an English football club that was based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.

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Radio Academy Awards

The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry.

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RAJAR

Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR) was established in 1992 to operate a single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom.

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RFU Championship

The RFU Championship is an English rugby union competition comprising eleven clubs.

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Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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Shipston-on-Stour

Shipston-on-Stour is a town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District in southern Warwickshire, England.

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Steve Ogrizovic

Steven Ogrizovic (born 12 September 1957) is an English football coach, former professional footballer and cricketer.

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Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon, commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England.

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Stuart Linnell

Stuart Linnell MBE BAHons HonMA is a semi-retired UK radio and television broadcaster, particularly well known in Coventry and Warwickshire, and in Northamptonshire.

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Tony and Julie Wadsworth

Tony Wadsworth and Julie Wadsworth (née Julie Mayer and known professionally by her maiden name) are former English radio presenters who presented shows on both BBC WM and BBC Radio Leicester.

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Tony Butler (broadcaster)

Tony Butler (15 May 1935 – 14 July 2023) was a British sports broadcaster from Birmingham.

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Trish Adudu

Patricia "Trish" Adudu is a British freelance journalist and television presenter.

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Warwick

Warwick is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Wasps RFC

Wasps Rugby Football Club was a professional rugby union team.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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See also

BBC Local Radio

• BBC CWR
• BBC Essex
• BBC Hereford & Worcester
• BBC Home Service
• BBC Local Radio
• BBC Radio Berkshire
• BBC Radio Bristol
• BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
• BBC Radio Cornwall
• BBC Radio Cumbria
• BBC Radio Derby
• BBC Radio Devon
• BBC Radio Gloucestershire
• BBC Radio Guernsey
• BBC Radio Humberside
• BBC Radio Jersey
• BBC Radio Kent
• BBC Radio Lancashire
• BBC Radio Leeds
• BBC Radio Leicester
• BBC Radio Lincolnshire
• BBC Radio London
• BBC Radio Manchester
• BBC Radio Merseyside
• BBC Radio Newcastle
• BBC Radio Norfolk
• BBC Radio Northampton
• BBC Radio Nottingham
• BBC Radio Oxford
• BBC Radio Sheffield
• BBC Radio Shropshire
• BBC Radio Solent
• BBC Radio Somerset
• BBC Radio Stoke
• BBC Radio Suffolk
• BBC Radio Surrey
• BBC Radio Sussex
• BBC Radio Tees
• BBC Radio WM
• BBC Radio Wiltshire
• BBC Radio York
• BBC Three Counties Radio
• Orient Express (BBC Radio Merseyside)
• Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting
• Timeline of BBC Local Radio
• Timeline of BBC Radio London

Coventry

• Art & Language
• BBC CWR
• Belgrade Plaza
• CV postcode area
• Coventry
• Coventry Archives
• Coventry Canal
• Coventry Carol
• Coventry Godcakes
• Coventry Jewish Reform Community
• Coventry Mystery Plays
• Coventry and Bedworth urban area
• Coventry blue
• Diocese of Coventry
• Education in Coventry
• HMS Mercia
• History of Coventry
• Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire
• London Road Cemetery
• Meriden Gap
• Send to Coventry
• Tile Hill Wood
• Touch FM (Coventry)
• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Organisations based in Warwickshire

• AHDB Potatoes
• Adventure Bike Rider
• Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
• Association of Applied Biologists
• Auto-Cycle Union
• BBC CWR
• Bowls England
• British Dressage
• British Equestrian
• British Eventing
• British Horse Society
• British Showjumping Association
• Christian Vision
• Dogs for Good
• Dugdale Society
• Focus Learning Trust
• Garden Organic
• Imagineering Foundation
• Independent Association of Prep Schools
• Institution of Chemical Engineers
• Institution of Fire Engineers
• Master Locksmiths Association
• Motorsport Industry Association
• National Farmers' Union of England and Wales
• National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs
• National Pig Association
• National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service
• Oral Health Foundation
• Rare Breeds Survival Trust
• Royal Life Saving Society UK
• South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
• The Pony Club
• The Security Institute
• The Survivors Trust
• Warwickshire County Record Office
• Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Warwickshire Hunt
• Warwickshire Police
• Warwickshire Police Authority
• Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Radio stations in Warwickshire

• 107.1 Rugby FM
• BBC CWR
• Capital Mid-Counties
• Fosseway Radio
• Fresh (Coventry & Warwickshire)
• Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire
• New 107 Oak FM
• Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon)
• Touch FM (Warwick)

Radio stations in the West Midlands (region)

• 107.7 The Wolf
• BBC CWR
• Black Country Radio
• Capital Mid-Counties
• Capital Midlands
• Classic Gold WABC
• Free Radio (network)
• Greatest Hits Radio Birmingham & The West Midlands
• Hits Radio Black Country & Shropshire
• Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire
• RAW 1251AM
• Signal 107
• Source Radio
• Touch FM (Coventry)
• WCR FM

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_CWR

Also known as BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, BBC Radio WM (Coventry and Warwickshire), BBC WM (Coventry & Warwickshire), BBC WM (Coventry and Warwickshire).

, Ofcom, Premiership Rugby, Radio Academy Awards, RAJAR, RFU Championship, Rugby, Warwickshire, Sheffield, Shipston-on-Stour, Steve Ogrizovic, Stoke-on-Trent, Stratford-upon-Avon, Stuart Linnell, Tony and Julie Wadsworth, Tony Butler (broadcaster), Trish Adudu, Warwick, Warwickshire, Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Wasps RFC, Watt.