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2BE Belfast

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City
  
Belfast

Frequency
  
689 kHz (initially)

Broadcast area
  
Northern Ireland

Format
  
News, information, entertainment

Owner
  
British Broadcasting Company, British Broadcasting Corporation

2BE was the call sign of the first official radio station to broadcast in Northern Ireland. Operated by the British Broadcasting Company (later the British Broadcasting Corporation), it started transmissions from Belfast on 15 September 1924 using a wavelength of 435 m.

In 1936 the station was subsumed into the Northern Ireland Regional Programme, later to become the Northern Ireland Home Service, and then BBC Radio 4 Northern Ireland. 2BE's successor station today is BBC Radio Ulster.

References

2BE Belfast Wikipedia