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The withdrawal of the Big Top 40 from their stations leads Bauer Radio to roll out the UK Chart Show across the Hits Radio network, built on the Sunday afternoon show introduced on Hits Radio Manchester in 2018, [15] whilst Wireless Group begins its own weekly show across its FM network, the Total Access Top 40, hosted by Olivia Jones. [16]
8 April – BBC Radio 2 celebrates the launch of its BBC Sounds service Radio 2 90s with a day of music from that decade. [130] 14 May – BBC Radio 2 broadcasts live coverage of Eurovision 2022 in Turin. 15 May – Rob Beckett leaves for a while, and would return in August.
This is the American theatrical cut of the film, running 25 minutes longer than the version previously released in the UK. 8 December – Alan Bradley is fatally run over by a Blackpool tram on Coronation Street, getting the soap's biggest ever audience at almost 27 million viewers, a record that remains to this day. [64] [65]
29 March – The UK shares the win of the 14th Eurovision Song Contest (staged in Madrid) in a four-way tie with France, Spain and the Netherlands. Lulu represents the UK, singing "Boom Bang-a-Bang". It is broadcast live on BBC1. 31 March Charles Curran becomes Director-General of the BBC.
YTV carries Music Box until 6am, and not until the start of TV-am because 6am was when the national breakfast franchise hours began, regardless of whether programmes were actually being broadcast. Therefore, there was a short programming break because in this year, TV-am wasn't starting its day until 6:15am (weekdays) and 6:55am (weekends). 1987
The Official Chart is a long-running United Kingdom music chart programme, airing each Friday afternoon on BBC Radio 1. It airs the UK Singles Chart compiled by the Official Charts Company . In July 2015 The Official Chart moved from its traditional Sunday slot to Friday afternoons, to coincide with the global change in new music release dates ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the television version of Douglas Adams' radio comedy of the same name, makes its debut on BBC2. [5] 20 January – BBC2 airs live coverage of the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States. [6] 22 January – The US sitcom Benson makes its UK debut on ITV.
Sir Paul McCartney has become the first billionaire British musician according to the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List. [71] Girls Aloud embark on their concert tour The Girls Aloud Show, which the group called "a celebration of their music", as well as a tribute to deceased member Sarah Harding, who died from breast cancer in 2021. [72] 21 May