Brookmans Park transmitting station

Brookmans Park
Brookmans Park transmitting station (Hertfordshire)
Mast height152 metres (499 ft)
Coordinates51°43′44″N 0°10′39″W / 51.728889°N 0.1775°W / 51.728889; -0.1775
Grid referenceTL259050

The Brookmans Park transmitting station is a facility for medium wave (MW) broadcasting at Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, north of London (grid reference TL259050). The station was built in the 1920s by the BBC as the first of a network of regional dual ("twin wave" was the term then used) transmitter stations, replacing the city-based ones used previously, and this was to cover the Home Counties, London and South East. The station is now owned by Arqiva and transmits BBC Radio 5 Live, talkSPORT, Absolute Radio and Lyca Radio. Other medium wave broadcasts for London come from the Saffron Green transmitting station, built by the Independent Broadcasting Authority and also in Hertfordshire.

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