Talk:List of radio stations in the United Kingdom

message: * Complete the listings, ensuring everything is in the right section (see Categorisation)
* Freeview and DSAT channel numbers (see Categorisation) Added for national services
For local services I suggest DAB is changed to "Digital" then listed as is for DAB
e.g. 12C if area is identical to analogue, 12C (Nottinghamshire) if it differs
Then use the same format for TV platforms - e.g. 724 (Freeview)
Examples -
Clyde 1 - Glasgow (as already applied)
11C
724 (Freeview)
Heart 106 - East Midlands
11B (Leicester)
12C (Nottinghamshire)
729 (Freeview - East Mids)
Any objections / better ideas?
===Length of page===
Does anyone else think this page is getting too long? Maybe we need a seperate page for each category. --Northernhenge (talk) 08:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Things to Do

message: Does anyone else think this page is getting too long? Maybe we need a seperate page for each category. --Northernhenge (talk) 08:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Length of page

message: With an automatically-updated UK radio stations category, why is there a need for this manually generated list? Smileyrepublic 22:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why do we need this page? 

message: * BBC Radio 4 is also on 94.60 - 96.10 MHz in Scotland (need to check these as just going from memory).
* There does not seem to be any note of BBC channels on FREEVIEW and digital satellite.   --jmb 13:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Radio 4 frequencies etc

message: Fort William and surrounds.  You can probably define the coverage area better by just putting "Fort William and Lochaber" as the relay stations are there to attempt to cover the Lochaber area (though the one in Glencoe seems to be off much of the time!).  --jmb 13:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 97.0 (Glencoe)  Is the Nevis Radio Glencoe transmitter still operational?  Not heard anything from it for a long time.  --jmb 13:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still listed on the latest (May 8) Ofcom transmitter spreadsheet.  Are you in the area to verify? Chillysnow 17:47, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't hear from home but go past occasionally, I will make some enquiries with someone who goes down that way more often than me.  --jmb 19:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I passed through Glencoe a few days ago and there was no sign of Nevis Radio on 97.00 MHz, not even a carrier.  --jmb 18:19, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nevis Radio

message: There is now the possibility that sortable tables can be added to any table in Wikipedia. It might have a positive use here.
For example
Before using
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#C9C9C9"
Name       	Format                           	FM Frequencies	AM Frequencies	DAB Channels	Freeview	Sky 	Virgin
BBC Radio 1	youth-oriented pop music and talk	97.6 - 99.8   	              	12B         	700     	0101	901
BBC 1Xtra  	Urban Music, Hip Hop, Drum'n'Bass	              	              	12B         	701     	0137	907
BBC Radio 2	adult-oriented pop music and talk	88.0 - 90.2   	              	12B         	702     	0102	902
After using:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
Name       	Format                           	FM Frequencies	AM Frequencies	DAB Channels	Freeview	Sky 	Virgin
BBC Radio 1	youth-oriented pop music and talk	97.6 - 99.8   	              	12B         	700     	0101	901
BBC 1Xtra  	Urban Music, Hip Hop, Drum'n'Bass	              	              	12B         	701     	0137	907
BBC Radio 2	adult-oriented pop music and talk	88.0 - 90.2   	              	12B         	702     	0102	902
Fuller details on how the table works is here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio Stations#"US radio stations by state" lists
Would it be good to add this sortable feature to the lists here? --tgheretford (talk) 10:48, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sortable tables

message: Someone, probably overseas, seems to have decided that UK student radio stations should not have Wiki pages and so far has removed at least one (Storm FM).  I suggest that people associated with other student radio stations monitor their Wiki pages as they might find them deleted if not enough local people vote to support keeping them as happened with Storm FM.  --jmb 10:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Student Radio

message: What are BBC Shetland Radio and BBC Orkney Radio doing in the BBC Nations list? Should they not be listed under BBC local radio? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.119.52 (talk) 12:30, 17 June, 2007 (UTC)
:BBC Shetland and Orkney, along with Foyle (listed), Tweed and Aberdeen (not listed) are opt outs from the main BBC Scotland or Ulster service.  They are not radio stations in their own right.  Where they should be listed is another matter, but I believe this is why they're where they are. Chillysnow 18:31, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My logic was that they are opt-outs of the bigger Radio Scotland which is unavailable in those areas while the opt-outs are on air.  Thanks to DAB and Freeview, BBC Radio Foyle is arguably a Northern Ireland wide station now, where as BBC Shetland (and other Scottish opt outs) could perhaps be better listed as BBC Scotland (Shetland) or BBC Scotland - Shetland - anyone got any better ideas? KevS 15:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC Nations Radio 

message: I notice that many of the links concerning Gold services actually link to the page about the metal rather than radio stations, so I may do something about this in the next day or two. I'll need to do a bit of researh first though to find out what the links should actually be called. Cheers Paul20070 16:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold 

message: I have noticed that many of the national stations are in the list that have either closed and are not available or have been axed because the 4Digital Group plans for Digital Two fell through. Is there any need for these stations to remain in the list or could they be safely removed? --tgheretford (talk) 23:26, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closed and axed stations 

message: Some vandal twit has deleted nearly all of the stations from the Wales section - can someone add them back please. This is absolutely unaccepatble. Jonny7003 (talk) 15:59, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Wales

message: The different categories are inconsistent in their use of external weblinks.
Student Radio stations mainly have weblinks in notes column, other categories do not do this. Given that a majority of student stations have their own individual pages external links are not needed on the list page?
Hospital Radio stations - where there are wikipedia pages for individual stations these should be used and weblinks if to be kept put in a separate column to keep consistency with other sections on this page.
Philedmondsuk (talk) 07:43, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistant / Excessive external links 

message: I've reverted an edit by an Anon user adding links to energy fm / http://www.dancemusicradio.net/ - as to the best of the information I can find this is not a UK radio station. The website states the station is based in the Canary Islands, therefore it should not feature on this list.
If there is a UK broadcast outlet for this station, then it should be re-added to the relevant section.
The same user removed the bfbs gurkha radio from the list - I suspect in error. This station appears to still be an active licensed station so I have replaced this entry
Philedmondsuk (talk) 10:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://www.dancemusicradio.net/ 

message: I have added some general references to this article, which will cover sources for the majority of the information contained.
However there is still room for improvement in the references for this list.
Philedmondsuk (talk) 20:14, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: What I noticed:
1) There are two Hull Kingston Radios there - both in Hull but with a one-tenth different frequencies;  
2) "Keith Community Radio", in fact, changed their name recently - to "KCR 107.7".
I guess there can't be other peculiarities there too...:) Take a look, somebody... :whistle: 
77.51.35.238 (talk), Josh   — Preceding undated comment added 12:35, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  CR list 

message: An owner/operator collum be put into some of the tables this informs people of who runs the stations without having to go into the articles anyone else think it would be a good idea.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chocolateediter (talk • contribs) 14:27, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Owners 

message: Should we include a section which lists all of the local country-wide multiplexes (the set of DAB multiplexes which carry the BBC local and major commercial stations) and list the stations carried on those multiplexes? I think we should as this is a major omission from this article. Rillington (talk) 16:11, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Local multiplexes