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Only BBC Radio London broadcasts a 24-hour service. As with BBC Local Radio, the BBC's national radio stations also carried a UK-wide station during downtime. BBC Radio Scotland initially took BBC Radio 4 due to Radio 4 not being on VHF/FM across most of Scotland until the end of the 1980s. BBC Radio Ulster, for the same reason, carried Radio 4 ...
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.
Currently, with the exception of BBC Radio 5 Live, all of the BBC's analogue services are provided on FM, although Radio 4 also broadcasts on long wave (MW in some areas) and some Local Radio stations also still broadcast opt-outs on medium wave. BBC policy was to refer to FM as VHF on air until 30 September 1984 when FM became its official term.
While BBC Radio London, albeit with some further minor interruptions, continues to take the show, the rest of the network switches to BBC Radio 5 Live. [4] 4 January Ian Shepherd joins Central Radio to present weekend breakfast. [5] Former Key 103 presenter Jonathan Miles joins Happy Radio UK to present a weekly show on Saturday evenings. [6]
On 26 May 2022, the BBC announced plans for CBBC, BBC Four and BBC Radio 4 Extra to be discontinued as linear services in 2025 as part of cutbacks and other changes focusing on creating a "digital-first" BBC. Under the plan, CBBC would exclusively operate as a content hub on iPlayer, as BBC Three had done before it was relaunched in 2022.
Radio 4, along with other BBC Radio stations, stop broadcasting via Sky's analogue satellite service. 2002. 15 December – Radio 4 gets a digital spin-off station, BBC7. The station broadcasts content from BBC Radio’s spoken word archive, repeating programmes previously broadcast on Radio 4, as well as airing daily programmes for children. 2003
19 February– Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! on BBC Radio 4 (2014–2022) 2 April – Bunk Bed on BBC Radio 4 (2014–Present) 29 May – Plum House on BBC Radio 4 (2014–2020) 4 August – Home Front on BBC Radio 4 (2014–2018) 11 August – The Cold Swedish Winter on BBC Radio 4 (2014–2021) 10 October – Friday Sports Panel on BBC Radio 5 ...
The final region to switch off was Northern Ireland, on 23 October, 2012. To dedicate the permanent switching-off of analogue in Northern Ireland, and, by extension, the United Kingdom, BBC One (only Northern Irish variation) and UTV together aired "The Magic Box", a programme dedicated to analogue TV: it became the last programme broadcast in ...