CHBN Radio has refreshed its daytime schedule to bring you a smoother, more listener‑friendly experience right through the week.
Daytimes are now packed with great music and local voices, weekends and evenings feature our specialist shows, and late nights move into a brand‑new Late Evening Chill Zone with soft, soothing sounds to help you unwind, followed by our popular Soft Soothing Sounds through the night.
Over the past 18 months CHBN has been working on a major project to upgrade its FM transmissions to the Truro area on 100.8 MHz. The work had to begin with the most fundamental requirement: fund-raising, but also included a good deal of time-consuming administrative work.
Richard Edoki, a Nigerian-born community broadcaster and advocate based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, has been recognised by Devon and Cornwall Police for his outstanding contribution to community engagement, inclusion and cross-cultural understanding.
Edoki received the recognition from the Devon and Cornwall Police Positive Action Team as part of its annual celebration honouring community leaders, volunteers, ambassadors and partner organisations whose work has strengthened relationships between communities and the police.
Volunteers from CHBN Radio attended a ceremony at New County Hall in Truro on Thursday afternoon as one of 17 organisations nominated for the King’s Award for Voluntary Service.
It was a great honour to be amongst the other nominated organisations, ranging from mental health support, to tree planting, to community development projects. CHBN extends our heartfelt congratulations to everyone!
On Tuesday 4 August 2026 you can hear a special programme on CHBN created by one of the station's regular presenters, Mike Brown.
The programme is based on a short-story by American science-fiction author Ray Bradbury, which in turn takes its title from a poem by Sara Teasdale.
We are pleased to announce that we have been given clearance by the broadcasting authority OFCOM to increase our FM transmitter power to greatly improve reception of our programmes on 100.8FM in and around the city of Truro..
Work will shortly begin to upgrade our transmitting aerial and the transmitter itself allowing us to increase our signal from 25 Watts to 160 Watts.
Work to carry out the upgrade on our VHF antenna is scheduled for Tuesday 4 August, weather permitting, with the transmitter upgrade and power increase due on Friday 7 August.
‘In Reel Life, Past and Present’ is an exciting new three-part series for CHBN presented by Chris Robins and produced by Steve Foster. Chris based his show on some archived interviews from around Cornwall. He revisited the people and places featured, to compare and contrast life in 2024 with the original recordings.
We are pleased to say that fur new Listen Again page is now online and that selected shows will be available to listen on-demand.
Uploaded shows can now be found at https://chbnradio.org/on-air/listen-again and will be available approx 5 hours after broadcast.and remain available for up to 30 days.
Comments about this new service can be made to Mike Brown whose email address is mike.brown@chbnradio.org
Access Cornwall is our new weekly programme offering nsightful interviews and stories from across Cornwall presented by Viki Carpenter.
Access Cornwall can be heard every Friday between 12-1pm
Access Cornwall will also be made available on our Listen Again page at https://chbnradio.org/on-air/listen-again
African Vibe is a programme that highlights the cultural world view diversity of the African peoples and how it seeks inclusivity with the Cornish audience by exploring music, food, dress sense and language to create a sense of shared community.
You can hear African Vibe, with Richybongo between 6-7pm on Sundays.
African Vibe will also be made available via our new Listen Again page at https://chbnradio.org/on-air/listen-again
