 It owed its existence to the broadcasting policy of the Conservative government of the time, who wished the BBC to end its longstanding practice of simulcasting its services on both AM and FM frequencies.A number of programmes, which were previously broadcast as opt-outs on one frequency only, would otherwise have been left without a home.The station officially launched at 9am on 27 August 1990, with five-year-old boy Andrew Kelly uttering the words