Regions
The Home Service had seven regions.
London and South East England was served by the "basic Home Service", which was not considered a region by the BBC and acted as the sustaining service for the other regions.
A shortage of frequencies meant that the Northern Ireland Regional Home Service was treated as part of the North Regional Home Service, as the Northern Ireland service used the same frequency as a North service booster. The Northern Ireland service was separated from the North region on 7 January 1963.
| Regional Home Service | Home city | Wavelength (metres) | Frequency (kHz) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | London | 330 (plus a local booster on 202) | 908 (1484) |
| Midland | Birmingham | 276 | 1088 |
| North | Manchester | 434 (plus local boosters on 261 and 202) | 692 (1151, 1484) |
| West | Bristol | 285 and 206 | 1052 and 1457 |
| Welsh | Cardiff | 341 | 881 |
| Scottish | Glasgow | 371 | 809 |
| Northern Ireland | Belfast | 261 until 1963; 224 thereafter. | 1151, 1340 |
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Famous quotes containing the word regions:
“It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“Within the regions of the air,
Compassed about with heavens fair,
Great tracts of land there may be found
Enriched with fields and fertile ground;
Where many numerous hosts
In those far distant coasts,
For other great and glorious ends,
Inhabit, my yet unknown friends.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)