BBC North West

BBC North West
TV transmittersWinter Hill and all relays.
Radio stationsBBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Merseyside
BBC Radio Cumbria (South)
BBC Radio Stoke (South Cheshire)
HeadquartersMediaCity, Salford Quays, Greater Manchester
AreaCheshire
Greater Manchester
Lancashire
Merseyside
North Yorkshire (western Craven)
Derbyshire (western High Peak)
Staffordshire (Staffordshire Moorlands)
Cumbria (Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland)
Isle of Man
NationBBC English Regions
RegionsNorth West and Isle of Man
Key people
Aziz Rashid
(Head of Regional
& Local Programmes)
Launch date
15 November 1922 (radio)
September 1957 (television)

BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, North Yorkshire (western Craven), Derbyshire (western High Peak), Staffordshire (Staffordshire Moorlands), Cumbria (Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland) and the Isle of Man.

The region also covered the rest of Cumbria during the late 1980s, complete with an opt-out television news service for the area, before it was transferred to the BBC North East region owing to high viewer demand. Today, the region is part of the larger BBC North division based at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.


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