BBC Radio Leeds

Not everyone who works in the BBC walks away with Jonathan Ross sized wage packets or gets the credit for providing the license fee payer with much more than a chat show here and there. The BBC really still is a fore runner in trying to give us back some value for money and in terms of local BBC radio, Radio Leeds is up there with the best of them.
Situated in one of the North’s hubs of BBC land, they are proud purveyors of local information and comprehensive coverage. Whether it’s news or sport, you’ll usually get a good smattering of it across the board.
With many commercial stations cutting back on their speech content and locally sourced programmes, you’ll get live football coverage, rugby league and even gardening tips should you so need them. The news and travel is also spot on and at regular intervals so you’ll mostly be at least on a par with the latest going ons if you give them a listen.
The music isn’t to everyone’s taste and if you listen to the radio just for that it’s probably not your first dial stop, but for information that really is local you’ll be hard pushed to better it.