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BBC Radio 1 stops borrowing BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies on Sunday evenings after 7pm. The UK Top 40 is the only remaining programme left to continue to borrow Radio 2's frequencies between 5pm and 7pm on Sundays. 24 November – BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting on FM in Belfast and Oxfordshire with a simulcast of Top of the Pops. [32]
14 February – Radio comedian Kenneth Horne collapses and dies of a heart attack while hosting the annual Guild of Television Producers' and Directors' Awards at The Dorchester hotel in London, [2] having just presented an award to Barry Took, co-scriptwriter of Round the Horne, and invited viewers to tune in to its fifth series, due to start on 16 March. [3]
9 October – BBC Radio 1 Dance launches. It is the BBC's first full time radio service to be broadcast exclusively online, and is available only via BBC Sounds. [106] 7 December – BBC Radio Bradford launches, broadcasting on the MW frequency of BBC Radio Leeds each weekday between 6 am and 2 pm. [107] [108] 2021
1994 in British radio – BBC Radio 5 is relaunched as BBC Radio Five Live, the first regional commercial stations start broadcasting; Radio 1 stops broadcasting on mediumwave; First broadcast of Wake Up to Money, Up All Night, Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade, Julie Enfield Investigates, Lee and Herring and Alan's Big One and Last broadcast of ...
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6 January – For the first time, BBC Radio 1's Sunday chart show plays all 40 tracks and the show is renamed as The Complete Top 40. [3] This becomes possible due to an extension of the programme's duration – starting half an hour earlier at 4:30 pm. 1992. 1 March – Mark Goodier ends his first stint as presenter of BBC Radio 1's Complete ...
The programme is also broadcast on BBC Radio 1 to allow viewers to listen to the programme in stereo. [47] 15 June – BBC1 broadcasts the first episode of The Black Adder, the first in the successful Blackadder series of sitcoms. 5 August – After 14 years on air, the final edition of Nationwide is broadcast. [48]
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, while its sister station 1Xtra plays black contemporary music, including hip hop and R&B.