The Bay (radio station)

The Bay

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City of license	Lancaster
Broadcast area	North Lancashire and South Cumbria
Slogan	Great Music, Local News
Frequency	FM: 96.9, 102.3, 103.2 MHz
First air date	1 March 1993
Format	Contemporary Hit Radio
Audience share	14.3% (June 2015, RAJAR)
Owner	CN Group
Sister stations	Lakeland Radio
Webcast	Radioplayer
Website	The Bay

The Bay is an Independent Local Radio station serving North Lancashire and South Cumbria. It is owned and operated by CN Group and broadcasts from studios at St George's Quay in Lancaster.

Overview

The station's name derives from the sand banks of Morecambe Bay, above which the main 96.9 MHz transmitter is located. Relay transmitters are located near the Lake District towns of Windermere (102.3 MHz) and Kendal (103.2 MHz), near the A684.

The Bay serves a potential audience of around 292,000 people, including the key centres of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancaster, Morecambe and Kendal, where the service area overlaps with sister station Lakeland Radio.

It has been nominated for and won several industry awards, including the Station of the Year at the 2010 Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, and more recently, Arqiva's Breakfast Show of the Year in 2012.

Programming

The majority of The Bay's programming is produced and broadcast from its Lancaster studios, with the exception of the networked Vodafone Big Top 40 on Sunday afternoons, produced by Global Radio in London. The station's presenters include Danny Matthews (weekday breakfast), Tony Cooky Cookson (weekday daytime), Darren Milby (weekday drivetime) and Kate Fallis (weekday evenings).

Local news bulletins are broadcast every hour from 6am to 6pm on weekdays and from 6am to 2pm at weekends.

See also

• Lakeland Radio

External links

• The Bay official site
• History of radio in Lancashire
• Kendal transmitter
• Morecambe Bay transmitter
• Windermere transmittter