During Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 BCB, the community radio station for Bradford, is launching a radio project to raise awareness of mental health in the Bradford District. BCB has been awarded a small grant from Bradford Council to deliver…

Welcome to the BCB newsletter for March. Here’s just a few things that have been going on at BCB and some events that are coming up: Pop down to BCB / Extended opening hours It has been wonderful to welcome more…

Welcome to BCB: Hassan and Ash Some of you may have noticed a few new faces around BCB, specifically towards the back end of the office. These new faces are Hassan and Ash who will be working with us for…

BCB – We’re Back Great news – we’ve slowly started to reopen BCB again, with people coming in to record their programmes in the studios. And there was a momentous occasion on Wednesday when Alan and Tina presented Afternoon Stretch…

BCB Covid ‘Code of Conduct’ – October 2021 We are starting to re-open BCB Studios. Our aim is to keep everyone at BCB safe, secure, and healthy. We recognise that we are still in the middle of a pandemic and…

Welcome to the latest BCB newsletter. Here’s a taste of what’s been happening recently at BCB. Do let us know if you have any news for the next newsletter. BCB 3-Year plan: we need your help! BCB Management Committee and staff have…

Planning Week – W/C Monday 16th August Thanks to everyone who’s involved in BCB right now, by recording programmes and/or listening to BCB on 106.6fm and online. As you may know, the staff team and management committee are meeting once…

Welcome to the latest BCB newsletter. Here’s a taste of what’s been happening recently at BCB. Do let us know if you have any news for the next newsletter. BCB Spring Break 10-16 May – Please read: Action Needed After…

Over these tough months of the Covid 19 pandemic, through the amazing commitment of our volunteers and staff team, BCB has continued to provide a valuable community radio service for Bradford. Working in our bedrooms and living rooms, we’ve discovered…

We’ve just provided a little help that will make a big difference to 16 young musicians. Under lockdown, these young people have lost access to equipment and expertise that has meant they were stuck, unable to be as creative as…

As part of our commitment to Youth Music we feature a track made by young people (aged 12 – 25) in Bradford as the ‘Track of the Week‘ across our schedule. You’ll be able to hear the track in our About…

Last week was Refugee Week 2020 and across the week, and in the buildup to, and we marked it with a variety of different guests and interviews. Here’s just some of the guests we had on. Friday 12th June  Refugee…

This is an update and a call to action for all BCB presenters. Programme Pages Thanks to all the people that have sent us information about thier programmes for our new Programme Pages on the website: https://www.bcbradio.co.uk/programmes/ ACTION: We’re now asking…

We’ve just launched a new project at BCB, in partnership with the NSMM. It’s called The Corona Chronicles and its aim is to create an audio archive of life in Bradford during the Covid-19 lockdown. We want to capture the…

We’re still finding ways to improve our remote broadcasting, to make it more efficient and easier so we can get more people set up to do it. Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at doing programmes and interviews…

COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdown have meant that many staple events in the Bradford calendar have had to find different ways to operate, and we’re happy to have helped two of the most important to happen. Bradford Pride Saturday saw…

We’re getting more and more people producing programmes remotely. Last week we hit the milestone of 70 new and remotely recorded programmes being broadcast on BCB – which is great. Through helping people set up to remotely record we’ve found…

We’ve been doing some work on the BCB website over the past few weeks and there are a few things we wanted to tell you about. Programme Pages We’ve added a new section for programme pages, as some of you…

Programme Pages Over the past week we’ve doing some work on the website, in particular the new programme page section. The plan is that every BCB programme will have its own individual page with: 1) a brief programme description, 2)…

More presenters, more new shows Last week we had 67 new shows go out on BCB and more presenters producing radio at home. Among the presenters creating their first “lockdown” shows were: Maureen Grant, Ian Forward, Malcolm Currie, Maria Spadafora…

Internet woes – an end to? As some of you may know we’ve been having serious issues with out internet recently, which has hampered our ability to work from home / broadcast online (thanks to a workaround we’ve managed to…

As a staff team we’ve been looking to different methods of recording and producing radio remotely, and have found lots of options. Here are some of the options we are looking at: VoiceMeeter Banana Open Broadcast Software Mixxx Clean Feed…

More presenters and new shows! Yet more people are managing to prepare shows from home for broadcast. Today Shamim Akhtar, who presents About Bradford every Thursday 11-12pm, put together her first remote About Bradford including interviews with Reverend Jenny Ramsden,…

Last week, we broadcast around 50 new programmes produced and presented from home, so congratulations to everyone who’s broadcast a programme so far. If you’re still setting up at home and need any help, please contact us and we’ll get…

We bodged up a fix for the internet broadcast stream over the weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially the Community Media Association and their excellent documentation.  It wasn’t quite sticky tape and plasters, but not far off. On the…

Internet woes Unfortunately the internet into and out of the building at BCB has been down for much of the last 24 hours. We’re at the mercy of Virginmedia, so apologies if you’ve not been able to listen. Many of…

Today we’ve done some more work on setting us up for remote working. Rocket.Chat for instant messaging, and CryptPad for shared documents – both these services are way more respectful than most of privacy, and will allow us to store…

We’re trying our best to work out how everyone can work and contribute remotely. Today I’ve been working on software/hardware support to try make sure we can communicate, and access the studio remotely. We’re using Jitsi to teleconference, and that…

We are pleased to say that the Listen Again service has now been resumed. Thanks for bearing with us.

BCB106.6FM has been awarded the Radio Academy Nations and Regions Yorkshire and Humber radio station of the year for 2013. We were presented with the award at a ceremony in Leeds on December 19th. The Chair of Judges said: “Capturing…

BCB106.6FM is the Community Radio station for Bradford, broadcasting distinctive radio programmes made by, and for, the people of Bradford. BCB106.6FM broadcasts a wide range of radio programmes, reflecting the cultural diversity in the city. We particularly encourage the participation…