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The chart, which had focussed on adult contemporary music, had been aired on Heart, Real Radio and Century FM. 2008. Galaxy 40 launches towards the end of the 2008 and is broadcast across the Galaxy Network, 2009. March – After less than three years on air, the final edition of Fresh 40 is aired. Also ending on this day is the short-lived ...
Debut of Channel 4's innovative music show The Tube, presented by Jools Holland and Paula Yates. The network television premiere of Woodstock on Channel 4, Michael Wadleigh's 1970 documentary about the counterculture 1969 festival which took place near Bethel, New York and was a great commercial and critical success.
9 August – The Yorkshire ITV region becomes the first UK terrestrial channel to broadcast 24 hours a day, simulcasting the cable and satellite music video channel Music Box throughout the night. The other ITV regions gradually switch to 24-hour television over the next two years.
Pages in category "British music television shows" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Transmission (TV programme) TRL UK; W. The Word ...
It is the first UK television series specifically aimed at a gay audience and is aired for two series in 1980 and 1981. [6] 19 February – Debut of the Scottish Television produced soap opera Take the High Road on ITV. 25 February – The political sitcom Yes Minister makes its debut on BBC2 with the episode "Open Government". [7]
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]
16 October – Satellite Television officially begins broadcasting in the UK. The channel had launched the previous year on cable in various European countries but to view the channel in the UK a satellite dish approximately 10 feet (3 metres) wide is required due to the channel being broadcast via the Orbital Test Satellite. [29]
20 April – The scheduled opening night of BBC2, the UK's third television channel, is disrupted by power cuts in London, and all that can be screened is announcer Gerald Priestland delivering apologies from Alexandra Palace. [5] [6] The existing BBC TV channel is renamed BBC1. 21 April – Play School is first broadcast on BBC2. The channel's ...