Manchester’s changing, and so is BBC GMR. As reported by RADIOJAM and RadioToday.co.uk two weeks ago, BBC GMR will be changing their station name to BBC Radio Manchester.
Along with the new name comes a new on-air schedule and station imaging package. BBC Radio Manchester will continue to broadcast on 95.1 FM which covers most of Greater Manchester, and 104.6 FM for Saddleworth and parts of North and East Manchester.
Here is the new schedule in full:
WEEKDAYS
0500 Paul Graham
Manchester?s Alarm Call
0700 Terry Christian
Making sense of Manchester, every morning.
1000 Eamonn O?Neal and Dianne Oxberry
Life. With a Microphone.
1200 Allan Beswick
With you on the phones. 0161 228 22 55.
1400 Mike Shaft
Sounds like Friday afternoon, every afternoon
1600 Heather Stott
Drive-thru news for the journey home
1830 Citizen Manchester – Reports Manchester?s Communities:
Mon: Irish
Tue: Chinese
Wed: Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered
Thu: Jewish
1900
Mon Manchester Sports or Becky Want BBC Radio Manchester re-loaded
Tue Manchester Sports
Wed Manchester Sports All the Action or Becky Want – BBC Radio Manchester re-loaded
Thu Manchester Sports The Rugby League Hour
2000 Becky Want – BBC Radio Manchester re-loaded
(Fri Anthony H Wilson?s Ground Rules)
2000 Manchester Sports
2200 Phil Wood and Gail Sullivan – Manchester?s Nightlife. Live.
0100 As BBC Radio Five Live
SATURDAY
0600 Allan Beswick
Your Manchester weekend starts here
0900 Becky Want?s Retail Therapy
We heart shopping. Live from Manchester?s top retail destinations
1100 Anthony H Wilson
The week?s news reviewed, live from the Cornerhouse Cafe
1300 Manchester Sports
1900 Simister Island Discs
Manchester personalities and their favourite songs
2000 FM The People
Karen Gabay and Mr V with BBC Radio Manchester?s black show
DAB & Web Shamoly
2200 Manchester Music
… the Sound of the City with Terry Christian and Conrad Murray
0100 As BBC Radio Five Live
SUNDAY
0600 Mike Shaft
Manchester?s faith, spirit and life?s unanswered questions
0900 Eamonn O?Neal and Jimmy Wagg
If your radio sounds funny this morning, you must be listening to this
1200 Flashback with Becky Want
From the 60s to the 90s ? Memory making hits and headlines
1430 Manchester Sports
1800 FM Eastern Horizons
News and conversation in Cantonese and Mandarin
DAB & Web Jaltrang
2000 Talat Farooq-Awan
.. for the new Asian generation
2200 Shobna Gulati (from 18 June)
.. and Manchester?s deadly sins
0100 As BBC Radio Five Live