Liverpool Hospital Broadcasting Service 1975 – 2025
It all started in 1975 as RADIO NEWSHAM launched in Newsham General Hospital Liverpool 6. Albeit broadcasting a few hours each day, the service was popular amongst patients in A block and the dermatology wards.
Following an invitation from the Broadgreen hospital administration to start a new radio service based on the Broadgreen site, Radio Newsham changed it’s charity name to Liverpool Hospital Broadcasting Service in 1982.
LHBS volunteers would often do their live show at one site and then do another live show at the other site on a different day. LHBS raised funds to run both radio services until Newsham Hospital closed it’s doors in the late 1980s but continued to operate Radio Broadgreen since 1983 from it’s base in Broadgreen Hospital.
The Broadgreen site also became the hub for live football commentaries from the Merseyside Football Network. Each Saturday we would feed the live football commentaries to other hospital radio stations across Merseyside and beyond.
In 1993 to commemorate ten years of Radio Broadgreen we successfully applied for a Restricted Service Licence to broadcast across Liverpool on 1413khz throughout the month of October – one of the first groups in the UK to make use of the new RSL licensing scheme from The Radio Authority.
Due to extensive redevelopment of the Broadgreen hospital site, we moved studios to our current home at Warmington Lodge in 1996 and soon started a 24 hour service.
1975-2025 LHBS continues as a registered charity.
Our sincere thanks to the many hundreds of volunteer members and our supporters past and present for the 50 years of support to hospital radio across Liverpool.
