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BBC Radio 1 launches its first promotion badges using the slogan Go Radio 1 Better on 247. BBC Radio 1 airs its first documentary: The Elvis Presley Story, narrated by Wink Martindale. 9 September – Dave Cash leaves. 9 October – Roundtable, a weekly discussion of the week's new releases, begins. The programme's first presenter is Emperor ...
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.
2021 in British radio – Woman's Hour celebrates its 75th year with a special message from The Queen; Boom Radio is launched to target baby boomers; UK radio stations enter obituary mode following the death of Prince Philip on 9 April; The first DAB multiplex for the Channel Islands begins broadcasting; Nick Grimshaw leaves BBC Radio 1 after ...
The first broadcasts of Europe Today take place. 1992. 1 June – BBC Ukrainian launches. [5] June – The World Service launches a programming covering the Wimbledon Championships called Sportsworld at Wimbledon. The BBC World Service is broadcast regularly on FM in the UK for the first time when it begins to be carried overnight on BBC Local ...
Radio Review/Radio Listeners Guide (1925–1929), Broadcasting Yearbook (1935–2010), World Radio TV Handbook (1947–) Berg, Jerome S. The early shortwave stations: a broadcasting history through 1945 (2013) radioheritage.net; worldradiomap.com (Europe, Americas, Asia, Oceania) Europe: Broadcasting abroad (1934); The media in Europe at Google ...
4 November – BBC Radio 3 Unwind, a radio station playing relaxing classical music, launches. 8 November – Radio 1 Anthems launches on BBC Sounds, joining an enhanced Radio 1 Dance which commenced earlier this year. [124] 18 November - A man in his 20s accuses the former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards of trying to groom him when he was 18 years old.
In February 2024, the corporation announced plans to launch three new spin-offs, pending public consultation and regulatory approval: one from Radio 1 for "music from the 2000s and 2010s, catering to the appetite from young audiences for recent nostalgia"; one from Radio 2, with "'a distinctive take on pop nostalgia' from the 50s, 60s, and 70s ...
30 September – Tony Blackburn launches BBC Radio 1 when he starts presenting the first edition of the Radio 1 Breakfast. 90 minutes earlier, BBC Radio 2 had also gone on air for the first time, its breakfast show was the continuation of Breakfast Special, presented by Paul Hollingdale. 1968