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BĂ©ton brut BĂ©ton brut (French: raw concrete), in architecture, is concrete left unfinished or roughly-finished after pouring and left exposed visually. The imprint of the wood or plywood forms used for pouring is usually present on the final surface.
BĂ©zier surface A BĂ©zier surface is a parametric tensor product surface defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics, computer-aided design, and finite element modelling. It can be viewed as a generalization of a BĂ©zier curve.
Béziers Béziers (Besièrs in Occitan, and Besiers in Catalan) is a town in Languedoc, in the southwest of France. It is a commune and a sous-préfecture in the Hérault département, with a population around 70,000, called Biterrois.
BĂ©zout's identity In number theory, BĂ©zout's identity or BĂ©zout's lemma is a linear diophantine equation. It states that if a and b are nonzero integers with greatest common divisor d, then there exist integers x and y (called BĂ©zout numbers or BĂ©zout coefficients) such that
BĂ©zout's theorem In mathematics, BĂ©zout's theorem counts the number of intersections of two curves. It gives a number that is subject to 'interpretation'; but in any case is a maximum number of intersections that two algebraic curves can have, without having a common component curve.
Bälau Bälau is a village of about 240 inhabitants, which is part of the Breitenfelde collective municipality (Amt) located in the Lauenburg district (Kreis) in southeastern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Bälau covers 6.
Bärbel Bohley Bärbel Bohley (born 24 May 1945) was an East German opposition figure and artist. In 1983 she was expelled from the GDR artists federation (VBK) and was banned from travelling abroad or exhibiting her work in East Germany.
Bärbel Wöckel Bärbel Wöckel (born in Germany, 21 March 1955) is a German Olympic track and field athlete who won four gold medals, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. In each of those years, Wöckel placed first in the 200 meter and 4 x 100 meter races.
Bärengraben The Bärengraben, or Bear Pit, is a well-known tourist attraction, an enclosure housing bears just at the eastern edge of the Altstadt of Berne, next to the Nydeggbrücke and the Aare River. The bear is a symbol of Berne, both the city and canton, and is featured in Berne's coat of arms.
Bärnau Bärnau is a town in the district of Tirschenreuth, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Czech Republic, 25 km northeast of Weiden in der Oberpfalz, and 26 km southwest of Mariánské Lázně.
Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur Bæjarins beztu pylsur (English: The town’s best hot dogs) often shortened to simply Bæjarins beztu, is a popular hot dog stand in central Reykjavík, Iceland. In august 2006, the British magazine The Guardian selected Bæjarins beztu as the best hot dog stand in Europe.
Bô-bí-lo̍k Bô-bí-lo̍k (literally 'happiness without rice' in Taiwanese; English title: 'Let it be') is a documentary film produced in Taiwan in 2004, recording the lives of several old farmers (peasants) in Chheⁿ-liâu Village, Āu-piah Township (Houbi Township), Tainan County. It generated discussion and debate in the Taiwanese civil society about the impact on agriculture due to its membership in the World Trade Organization.
BĂ´a BĂ´a is a British alternative rock band formed in London in 1993 by drummer Ed Herten. They are most widely known for the song "Duvet", which was used as the theme song for the anime series Serial Experiments Lain.
BĂ´cher Memorial Prize The BĂ´cher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime BĂ´cher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). It is awarded every five years for a notable research memoir in analysis that has appeared during the past six years in a recognized North American journal or was authored by a member of the Society.
BĂ´cher's theorem In mathematics, BĂ´cher's theorem, named after Maxime BĂ´cher, states that the finite zeros of the derivative r'(z) of a nonconstant rational function r(z) that are not multiple zeros are also the positions of equilibrium in the field of force due to particles of positive mass at the zeros of r(z) and particles of negative mass at the poles of r(z) , with masses numerically equal to the respective multiplicities, where each particle repels with a force equal to the mass times the inverse distance.
Böblingen (district) Böblingen is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Calw, Enz, Ludwigsburg, (district) Stuttgart, and the districts Esslingen and Tübingen.
Böblingen airport Böblingen Airfield was built in the mid-1920s for the city of Stuttgart, Germany. Bordered by Calwer Straße (K1073) and the E41, it lies northwest of Böblingen and south of the Daimler factory in Sindelfingen.
Bödvar Bjarki Bödvar Bjarki is the hero appearing in tales of Hrólf Kraki in the Saga of Hrólf Kraki, in the Latin epitome to the lost Skjöldunga saga, and as Biarco in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Some think he and the hero Beowulf in the Old English poem Beowulf were originally the same personage, while others reject this notion.
Bökelbergstadion The Bökelbergstadion was a multi-use stadium in Mönchengladbach, Germany. It was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of Borussia Mönchengladbach before Borussia-Park opened in 2004.
Bön BönAlthough the transcription of the Tibetan spelling is just "Bon", the umlaut is conventionally added above the "o" to approximate more succinctly the Tibetan pronunciation of the vowel. () is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet and is oft-described as the shamanistic tradition of the Himalayas prior to the dissemination of Buddhism in the 7th century CE.
Bördekreis The Bördekreis is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ohrekreis, district-free Magdeburg, Schönebeck, Aschersleben-Staßfurt, Quedlinburg, Halberstadt and the district Helmstedt in Lower Saxony.
Börje Ahlstedt Nils Börje Ahlstedt (born February 21, 1939) is a Swedish actor who has worked a lot with the world famous director Ingmar Bergman in films like Fanny and Alexander (1982), The Best Intentions (1982) and Saraband (2003). Ahlstedt has also worked with the directors Bo Widerberg and Kay Pollak.
Börje Salming Anders Börje Salming (born April 17, 1951 in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden) was a Swedish professional ice hockey defenseman. He played for Kiruna AIF, Brynäs IF, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and AIK IF.
Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (Traditional Chinese: 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州; Simplified Chinese: 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, pinyin: Bó'ěrtǎlā Měnggǔ Zìzhìzhōu, Mongolian in Cyrillic script: Борталын Монгол өөртөө засах тойрог, Uyghur: بۆرتالا موڭغۇل ئاپتونوم ئوبلاستى) is a Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It has an area of 27,000 square kilometers.
Böttger's Argonaut Böttger's Argonaut (Argonauta bottgeri) is a species of pelagic octopus belonging to the genus Argonauta. The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell (hence the name paper nautilus).
Böwe Bell & Howell Founded in 1907 by projectionists Donald Bell and Albert Howell to manufacture motion picture equipment, the firm is currently headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois, the Bell & Howell Company merged with Böwe Systec Inc in 2003 to become Böwe Bell & Howell. Currently, the company provides document processing, microfilmers, scanners, and financial services.
Bø LORAN-C transmitter Bø LORAN-C transmitter is a LORAN-C transmitter at Bø, Norway at 68° 38' 06" N, 14° 27' 47" E (). Bø LORAN-C transmitter is the X-ray secondary station of the Ejde chain ( GRI 9007) and the master station of the Bø chain ( GRI 7007).
Bømla Bridge Bømla Bridge (Bømlabrua) is a suspension bridge that crosses Spissøysundet between Nautøy and Spissøy in Hordaland county in Norway. It is part of Trekantsambandet ("The Triangle Link") that connects the islands Bømlo and Stord to the mainland.
Bømlafjordtunnel Bømlafjordtunnel is a tunnel that connect the island Føyno in Stord municipality with the mainland at Valevåg villageVillage is a loose translation of the Norwegian term tettsted, which refers to a collection of houses, typically in an urban setting, though suburban villages also exist in Norway. Such centers are not entirely the same as the English term village, since they are often less self-contained than villages are; and do not usually include housing related to farms.
Børgefjell National Park Børgefjell National Park is an inaccessible and undeveloped national park in Norway, straddling the border between Nord-Trøndelag and Nordland, with a border to Sweden. The landscape varies from dramatic peaks of dark granite, creating a desolate feeling, and grey mountains with little vegetations, to fertile mountain slopes and marshes.
Børkop municipality Børkop municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Vejle County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 103 km², and has a total population of 11,478 (2005).
Børselva Børselva (, ) is a river in the municipality of Porsanger in Finnmark county, Norway. This area has three productive salmon rivers, the other two being Lakselva (which literally means the salmon river) and Stabburselva.
Bâ‚€ B0, that is "B subscript zero", is also generally used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging to denote the net magnetization vector. Although in physics and mathematics the notation to represent a physical quantity can be arbitrary, it is generally accepted in the literature, such as the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine that B0 represents net magnetization.
Bājíquán Bājíquán (; , Hakkyokuken) is a Chinese martial art that features explosive, short range power and is famous for its elbow strikes. It originated in Hebei Province of Northern China, but is also well-known in other places as well today, especially Taiwan.
Băile Felix Băile Felix (Hungarian: Félixfürdő) is a thermal spa resort near the commune of Sânmartin in Bihor County, Transylvania, Romania. They are among the best known and most quality thermal spas in the country.
Bărăgan deportations The Bărăgan deportations were a large-scale action of penal transportation, undertaken during the 1950s by the Romanian Communist regime. Their aim was to forcibly relocate individuals who lived within approximately 25 km of the Yugoslav border (in present-day Timiş, Caraş-Severin, and Mehedinţi counties) to the Bărăgan Plain.
Bărbat Bărbat succeeded his brother Litovoi as voivode of the principality on the West bank of the river Olt. Taken hostage in the same battle in which Litovoi was killed, he managed to gather a large sum of money and pay the ransom.
Bbr3464 BBR3464 is a new platinum based cytotoxic drug that is currently undergoing clinical trials throughout the world for the treatment of human cancer. It is trinuclear platinum coordination complex, with chloride and amine ligands.
BB gun BB guns are a type of air gun designed to fire spherical projectiles, called BBs after the Birdshot pellet of approximately the same size. Modern day BB guns usually have a smoothbore barrel, with a bore diameter and caliber of 0.
BB&T Classic Basketball Tournament The BB&T Classic Basketball Tournament is a Washington, DC-based basketball tournament that has been held annually since 1995, when it was known as the Franklin Bank Classic. It is staged at the Verizon Center, on or around the first weekend in December.
BB84 BB84 is a quantum key distribution scheme developed by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in 1984. The protocol is provably secure, relying on the quantum property that information gain is only possibly at the expense of disturbing the signal if the two states we are trying to distinguish are not orthogonal (see no cloning theorem).
BBA Group BBA Group plc () is a British company which operates in two distinct areas of business: services for the aviation sector, and the manufacturing of specialist materials. However it was founded in 1897 as a textile manufacturing firm named W.
BBB Wise Giving Alliance The BBB Wise Giving Alliance (WGA) is an alliance of charities formed by a merger of the National Charities Information Bureau and the Council of Better Business Bureaus' Foundation and its Philanthropic Advisory Service.
BBC 1Xtra BBC 1Xtra is a UK radio station from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 1800 on August 16 2002, it was codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1.
BBC 7 BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's vast archive of spoken-word entertainment, and was established specifically to enable the contents of the BBC Sound Archives to be broadcast.
BBC America BBC America is an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide, which was launched on March 29, 1998, available on both cable and satellite. It is one of two BBC branded channels broadcast in the USA - the other being BBC World which broadcasts in New York only.
BBC Asian Network The BBC Asian Network is a BBC national radio station orientated towards British Asian life, culture and music in the UK and other topics from a British Asian perspective aimed at the under 35's from that community but aiming for a broader appeal among all interested in British Asian life whether Asian or not regardless of age.
BBC Asian Network - Special News Reports As part of Schedule changes introduced in 2006 a couple of new specialised news and current affairs programmes were introduced on the BBC Asian Network as part of an emphasis on integrating the station with the rest of the BBC and pursuing the stations responsibility under the BBC Charter to inform.
BBC BASIC BBC BASIC was developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the MOS Technology 6502 based Acorn BBC Micro home/personal computer, mainly by Roger Wilson. It was a version of the BASIC programming language adapted for a U.
BBC Big Band The BBC Big Band, sometimes called the BBC Radio Big Band, is a British band run under the auspices of the BBC. It consists of professional musicians directed by Barry Forgie who has been conducting them on a regular basis since 1977 and Jiggs Whigham, who has been associated with the band for over twenty years.
BBC Big Screen The BBC Big Screen project is a project involving the British Broadcasting Corporation, Philips and local councils to install large, 25m television screens with sound systems in prominent locations in city centres. There are currently six UK cities and one town which have one.
BBC Birmingham BBC Birmingham is one of the oldest regional arms of the BBC. It was the first region outside of London to start broadcasting both the corporation's radio (in 1922) and television (in 1949) transmissions, the latter from the Sutton Coldfield television transmitter.
BBC Brasil BBC Brasil is the subsidiary of British Broadcasting Corporation in Brazil and Latin America. Acting as world news provider in portuguese and news agency BBC Brasil competes with Reuters but with much more resources like physical installed branchs in SĂŁo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and team especially assigned in London.
BBC Breakfast BBC Breakfast is the morning television news program broadcast on BBC One and BBC News 24. It is presented live from Television Centre in White City, west London, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items.
BBC controversies The BBC has been the subject of many controversies that have been widely reported elsewhere which can be documented as to their source within this article. Although the BBC has generally sought to distance itself from controversy, it has generated controversy due to its unique position within British society.
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition The Cardiff Singer of the World Competition (also the BBC Singer of the World in Cardiff Competition in 2003) is a singing competition held every two years. It is considered one of the most prestigious competitions in the opera world.
BBC Climate Change Experiment This BOINC project is lead by Oxford University with several partners including the UK Met Office, the BBC, the Open University and Reading University. It is the Transient coupled model of the Climateprediction.
BBC Concert Orchestra The BBC Concert Orchestra is one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's remaining five orchestras and is based in London, between 1972 and 2004 at the Golders Green Hippodrome. With around fifty players it is the only one of the five which is not a full scale symphony orchestra.
BBC Domesday Project The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC (with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England. It is frequently cited as an example of digital obsolescence.
BBC English Regions BBC English Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for the corporation's local television, radio, web and teletext services in England. It is one of the BBC's four 'Nations' - the others being BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and BBC Northern Ireland
BBC F.C. BBC Football Club was founded in 1925 as a weekend activity for members of staff of the BBC. The club played their home matches for many years until 2003 at Motspur Park, Surrey until the BBC sold the land to Ben Dunne.
BBC Five Live Sports Extra BBC Five Live Sports Extra is an additional radio service provided by the BBC via DAB Digital Radio and the digital satellite, digital terrestrial and digital cable television services in the UK. It is not available via normal analogue radio.
BBC Focus BBC Focus is a British monthly magazine about science and technology published in Bristol by Origin Publishing. Edited by Paul Parsons, it covers all aspects of science and technology and is written for general readers as well as people with a knowledge of science.
BBC Four BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began on 2 March 2002, its first evening's programmes being simulcast on BBC Two.
BBC Gardeners' World BBC Gardeners' World is a British gardening magazine owned by the BBC containing tips for gardening from presenters Monty Don and Carol Klein. The magazine often has offers on plants, free supplements and giveaways and gave away a free calendar with the December issue.
BBC Global 30 The BBC Global 30 is a worldwide stock market index run as a global economic barometer. Started by the BBC on 29 September 2004, it mixes the economic information of the world largest companies based in three continents.
BBC In Session BBC In Session is a compilation of four BBC sessions by The La's, containing the band's session appearances on radio shows hosted by Janice Long, Liz Kershaw, Bob Harris and Nicky Campbell. The album was released on September 18th, 2006 by Universal Media to very favourable reviews.
BBC Japan BBC Japan was a television channel from the BBC available via satellite in Japan. Similar in format to BBC Prime, which now broadcasts a service in other Asian countries, BBC Japan showed such BBC programmes as Blackadder and Fawlty Towers, with many of them subtitled in Japanese.
BBC Jazz Awards The BBC Jazz Awards were set up in 2001 and now have the status of one of the premier jazz awards in the UK. There are awards for Best Musician, Best Vocalist, Rising Star, Best Album, Jazz Innovation, Radio 2 Jazz Artist, Services to Jazz, Best of Jazz amongst others.
BBC Knowledge BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a strong programme of documentary, cultural and educational television. It launched on 1 June 1999BBC launches digital learning channel BBC News, 30 May 1999 broadcasting 6 hours of educational material a day.
BBC Learning Zone BBC Learning Zone is mostly an Open University sponsored block of academic programmes shown during the late night - early morning on BBC Two. It presently features programming for GCSE and A-Level among others with a wide variety of subjects.
BBC Light Programme The Light Programme was a BBC radio station broadcasting mainstream light entertainment and music. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the longwave frequency, which until 1939 had been used by the BBC National Programme of the wartime BBC General Forces Programme.
BBC Media Village The BBC Media Village was opened in 2004 and is the second phase of development at BBC White City. It was built on the same site as the 1908 Summer Olympics and parts of the swimming pool were discovered when the foundations were laid.
BBC Micro The BBC Microcomputer System was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers Ltd for the BBC Computer Literacy Project operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
BBC Monitoring BBC Monitoring is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation that monitors the mass media worldwide and acts as the British Government's provider of open source intelligence (OSINT). It is based at Caversham Park in Caversham, near Reading in southern England, and selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.
BBC Music Magazine BBC Music Magazine is a magazine published in the United Kingdom by the BBC, devoted primarily to classical music, though with sections on jazz and world music. It claims first place in terms of worldwide sales.
BBC News BBC News (occasionally referred to by staff as BBC News and Current Affairs) is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. Part of the larger BBC Journalism group, BBC News is the largest news broadcaster in the world and produces almost 100 hours of output daily.
BBC News 24 BBC News 24 is the BBC's 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom. It first broadcast on 9 November 1997 at 17:30About BBC News 24 TV Home, originally available only to cable television subscribers.
BBC News Magazine Monitor The Magazine Monitor is a column in the Magazine section of BBC News Online; the website of BBC News; where a witty and irreverent take on the day's news is collated. The first article added to the Monitor each day is usually the Paper monitor - often pointing out the glorious imperceptible witticisms that make the daily press in the United Kingdom each day.
BBC News Special BBC News Special is a term used by BBC News to refer to a news programme covering one specific and important event, often unscheduled. It is usually used to refer to situations where the programme being broadcast on BBC News 24 is also broadcast on either (or a combination of) BBC One, BBC Two or BBC World simultaneously.
BBC North BBC North was the former name of the BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions of the BBC. Based at the Broadcasting Centre in Woodhouse Lane, Leeds it was the production centre for the regional news programme Look North and BBC Local Radio station BBC Radio Leeds.
BBC North West Tonight BBC North West Tonight is the BBC's regional evening television news programme for the BBC North West English region, which is comprised of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire, South Cumbria and part of Derbyshire. The programme also serves the Isle of Man.
BBC One BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Launched as the BBC Television Service on 2 November 1936, the channel was the world's first regular, public, high-definition television broadcasting system, though the BBC had been broadcasting television in a variety of formats since 1929.
BBC One 'Circle' idents The BBC 'Circle' idents are a set of on-screen channel identities that debuted on BBC One at 10am BST on 7 October 2006. They were announced on 26 September 2006 as the replacement for the 'Rhythm & Movement' idents and were designed and produced for the BBC by Red Bee Media.
BBC One 'Rhythm & Movement' idents BBC 'Rhythm & Movement' idents were a set of on-screen channel identities used on BBC One from 29 March 2002 until 7 October 2006. They replaced the earlier balloon idents, and spelled the end of the much recognised globe identity by the BBC, which had been used in various ways since 1963.
BBC Parliament BBC Parliament is a British television channel from the BBC. It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British House of Commons and House of Lords, Select Committees, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, and occasionally from the General Synod of the Church of England.
BBC Points West BBC Points West is the BBC's regional news programme for the BBC West region of England, covering Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. It is fronted by Chris Vacher, Alex Lovell and David Garmston.
BBC review On December 7 2004 a review of the current status of the British Broadcasting Corporation under its Royal Charter was commenced by announcement of BBC Director General Mark Thompson. (For the main article about the British Broadcasting Corporation see: BBC.
BBC Radio BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company, Ltd.
BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and is the most popular station in the UK. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in Western House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London.
BBC Radio Brighton BBC Radio Brighton was one of the first wave of BBC Local Radio stations which took to the air during the late 1960s. Broadcasting from Marlborough Place, it officially opened on 14 February 1968, though a short-lived emergency service had been broadcast during the blizzards earlier that winter.
BBC Radio Bristol BBC Radio Bristol is the BBC Local Radio service for the English city of Bristol and surrounding area including the whole of the county of Somerset. Launched in September 1970, it broadcasts from its studios in Bristol on 94.
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cambridgeshire. It broadcasts from its studios in Cambridge on 96 (Madingley, close to the A428/A1303 junction five miles west of Cambridge) and 95.
BBC Radio Cleveland BBC Radio Cleveland is the BBC Local Radio service for the English areas of Teesside, County Durham and some of North Yorkshire. Launched on 31 December 1970 as Radio Teesside, it now broadcasts from its studios in Middlesbrough on 95.
BBC Radio Derby BBC Radio Derby is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Derbyshire. It covers all but the northern tip of the county, and also serves eastern Staffordshire, mainly Uttoxeter and Burton upon Trent.
BBC Radio Devon BBC Radio Devon is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Devon, and began transmissions on 17 January 1983, replacing a previous breakfast show ('Morning Sou'West) for Devon and Cornwall broadcast on the local frequencies of Radio 4. Since 2004 the weekend opt-out programmes for Plymouth have been joined by a weekday breakfast show for the city - in common with a number of other BBC local stations which have also introduced subregional opt-outs.
BBC Radio Five Live BBC Radio Five Live is the BBC's radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. It is the principal radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors.
BBC Radio Humberside BBC Radio Humberside is a BBC Local Radio service covering the area of the former English county of Humberside, which was returned to North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire on April 1 1996. The station opened on 25th February 1971, it broadcasts 5am-1am from its studios in Hull and Grimsby on 95.
BBC Radio Lincolnshire BBC Radio Lincolnshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Lincolnshire—apart from the northern parts of the county, which are covered by BBC Radio Humberside. It broadcasts from its studios near Newport Arch in Lincoln on 94.
BBC Radio Merseyside BBC Radio Merseyside is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of Merseyside and north Cheshire. The third BBC local radio station to launch on 22 November 1967, it broadcasts from its studios in Hanover St, Liverpool on 95.

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