Local radio stations on motorway signs

[Rillington]

I recall signs on the M1 providing details of BBC Radio Sheffield and Radio Hallam although I don't know if they are still there.

Which other radio stations have had motorway signposts devoted to them?

[MotorwayGuy]

It's not on a motorway but there's this random one on the A299.

[wallmeerkat]

Radio Scotland / Clyde on the M8

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8502607 ... ?entry=ttu

I seem to remember these but looking more like these with the old BBC logo, around 20 years ago (early 2000s) https://twitter.com/ScotRoadArchive/sta ... 5458485248

I don't think there was ever any for NI, Radio Ulster axed traffic reports during COVID lockdowns and they never returned (Paywall but the headline/summary is basically the story https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news ... 45088.html )

[Nwallace]

Iirc all of the Scottish local commercial radio stations appeared in signs like that along with the bbc scotland one.

The radio tay/forth one is sonewhere around Kinross iirc.

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[RichardA626]

Radio Scotland / Clyde on the M8

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8502607 ... ?entry=ttu

I seem to remember these but looking more like these with the old BBC logo, around 20 years ago (early 2000s) https://twitter.com/ScotRoadArchive/sta ... 5458485248

I remember seeing a few signs with the old BBC & IBA logos along with the Radio station names when I when on a coach tour of Scotland in 2005.

[wallmeerkat]

Iirc all of the Scottish local commercial radio stations appeared in signs like that along with the bbc scotland one.

The radio tay/forth one is sonewhere around Kinross iirc.

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I don't recall seeing a Kingdom one in Fife but I stand to be corrected.

[Nwallace]

Iirc all of the Scottish local commercial radio stations appeared in signs like that along with the bbc scotland one.

The radio tay/forth one is sonewhere around Kinross iirc.

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I don't recall seeing a Kingdom one in Fife but I stand to be corrected.

Sorry I forgot about the more recent licences, all the original commercial stations, which are now all owned by er is it Bauer This month?

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[Bryn666]

M55 used to have them, but not any more: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3rj934TEGV6CjNUq5

[wallmeerkat]

Iirc all of the Scottish local commercial radio stations appeared in signs like that along with the bbc scotland one.

The radio tay/forth one is sonewhere around Kinross iirc.

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I don't recall seeing a Kingdom one in Fife but I stand to be corrected.

Sorry I forgot about the more recent licences, all the original commercial stations, which are now all owned by er is it Bauer This month?

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Depends what you mean "recent", Wikipedia says it started 1988, so probably a bit "new" for the BBC/IBA signs, but was on the go when I was living in Fife of the early 2000s.

[nowster]

Depends what you mean "recent", Wikipedia says it started 1988, so probably a bit "new" for the BBC/IBA signs, but was on the go when I was living in Fife of the early 2000s.

The IBA was only replaced by the Radio Authority at the end of 1990, following the enactment of the Broadcasting Act 1990 (the one which also effectively killed Thames and TV-AM).

[Conekicker]

I recall signs on the M1 providing details of BBC Radio Sheffield and Radio Hallam although I don't know if they are still there.

Which other radio stations have had motorway signposts devoted to them?

As I very vaguely recall, they were an experiment in the late 70s or early 80s. I don't know when they were taken down. Presumably the experiment wasn't a success.

If you've got your car radio set to interrupt whatever station you are listening to with traffic news, the signs would be pointless clutter.

[Rillington]

It's not on a motorway but there's this random one on the A299.

Thank you for posting.

Given the frequency of the station in question, it will be a more recent addition as that part of the waveband didn't start to be used until towards the end of the 1990s.

[swissferry]

Also not on a motorway, Ski Information fm 97.1 south of Braemar.

[robstel]

One here on the A603 in Cambridgeshire

[nowster]

One here on the A603 in Cambridgeshire

BBC Radio Cambridge on a wavelength of 96 femtometre? That's a frequency of 3.13 zettahertz (3.13 × 10²¹ Hz). I should be able to pick it up on a Geiger counter tube, perhaps? (That's in the gamma ray part of the spectrum.)

Some time between 2009 and 2011 it was replaced like-for-like, not patched, to change the second station name from Q103FM to Heart.

[Sirsquinn]

Random one here in Bradford in a B road.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/EmQWFkr6V8h3CaAp7

Appreciate this topic is descending further away from motorways.

[Rillington]

Thank you for those last two.

The one for BBC Radio Leeds needs updating as BBC Radio Leeds no longer broadcasts on MW, but it is good that the Cambridgeshire one was been corrected to reflect that the area's commercial station is now part of the Heart network.

[Gareth Thomas]

It's not on a motorway but there's this random one on the A299.

There are a couple more of those dotted around Thanet, for what used to be Thanet Local Radio but is now KMFM Thanet (and no local shows, only the adverts and sponsors are local to Thanet amongst a countywide KMFM that seems to focus mostly on Medway.....).

Sorry, I digress.

I think there used to be signs along the M20 for a Channel Tunnel Radio when it first opened?

[the cheesecake man]

but it is good that the Cambridgeshire one was been corrected to reflect that the area's commercial station is now part of the Heart network.

but sad to see another excellent local station (and one whose name I had written on a phone card for 3 years ) be subsumed into Heart blandness.

[nowster]

but it is good that the Cambridgeshire one was been corrected to reflect that the area's commercial station is now part of the Heart network.

but sad to see another excellent local station (and one whose name I had written on a phone card for 3 years ) be subsumed into Heart blandness.

I remember them launching as CNFM! Their studios were somewhere near the jam factory in Histon, IIRC.