Mystery of BBC radio’s first broadcasts revealed 100 years on
New research shows the BBC may have launched in London but Manchester played a big role in many early shows. …
The importance of the BBC in Manchester also lay in how far it reached. At the beginning it could only be heard in an area around 25 miles from Trafford Park. However, over the next few years the signal was relayed to other transmitters in Liverpool (6LV), Leeds/Bradford (2LS), Hull (6KH), Nottingham (5NG) and Stoke-on-Trent (6ST).