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20 August – Greg James becomes the 16th person to present Radio 1 Breakfast. [113] [114] 3 September – Nick Grimshaw takes over as host of the drivetime show. Jack Saunders hosts a new show called Radio 1's Indie Show. 9 September – Huw Stephens' BBC Introducing show moves to Sunday nights as part of a shake-up of the Sunday schedule. [115]
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.
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 ...
The timeline of radio lists within ... telegraphy demonstrations in Europe. ... was launched. Early 1990s: Amateur radio experimenters began to use ...
1 May – BBC Radio 1 begins 24-hour transmission, but only on FM – Radio 1's MW transmitters still close down overnight, between 12 midnight and 6 am. 31 July – The BBC's Lime Grove Studios close. 31 August – BBC television starts officially broadcasting in stereo using the NICAM system. (Some transmitters had been broadcasting in stereo ...
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 ...
Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn’t relied on since 1981 to stay in contact with its team on Earth while engineers work to understand what went wrong. ... launched in September ...
1 January – A station named The Hits, carrying the audio of the Box Plus Network television channel of the same name, appears on DAB in London. 14 February – BBC Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio 4 FM start broadcasting on Freeview. They broadcast on multiplex A as there is not enough room for them on multiplex B, on which the other BBC ...