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July – Radio 3 hires Andy Kershaw to host a world music programme, as Andy himself joins the station. [22] two months after BBC Radio 1 axed his world music show. [23] Rob Cowan joins. 2001. Radio 3, along with other BBC Radio stations, stop broadcasting via Sky's analogue satellite service. 2002. No events. 2003. No events. 2004. No events. 2005
Radio 4 airs a special programme from BBC Radio News which is also carried on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 5 Live. [15] 6 September – Live coverage of the funeral of Princess Diana is broadcast on all of the BBC national radio networks, as well as on all BBC Local and National radio stations. 1998
1967 in British radio – The UK Parliament passes the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 making it illegal for a British subject to be associated with off-shore pirate radio; the BBC's national stations are relaunched and BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting; BBC Local Radio launches in Leicester; first broadcast of The Official Chart, The Radio ...
Radio 3 is the successor station to the Third Programme which began broadcasting on 29 September 1946. [8] The name Radio 3 was adopted on 30 September 1967 when the BBC launched its first pop music station, Radio 1 [9]: 247 and rebranded its national radio channels as Radio 1, Radio 2 (formerly the Light Programme), Radio 3, and Radio 4 (formerly the Home Service).
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29 March – BBC Radio 3’s Sunday breakfast programme Sacred and Profane is broadcast for the final time. [16] 4 April – Breakfast programme On Air extends to weekends. [17] 6 April – As part of an earlier start to BBC Radio 4’s day, the weekday editions of The Today programme are extended by 30 minutes to three hours. [18]
4 April – BBC Radio's sports coverage transfers from BBC Radio 3 to BBC Radio 2. 14 September – Robert Dougall presents the first edition of the BBC Nine O'Clock News. The programme, launched in response to ITN's News at Ten, was controversially moved to 10 pm in 2000. 1971. The BBC logo's boxes rounds off the corners and increases the spaces.
With the increased rollout of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) between 1995 and 2002, BBC Radio launched several new digital-only stations BBC 1Xtra, BBC 6 Music and BBC 7 in 2002 on 16 August, 11 March and 15 December respectively – the first for "new black British music", the second as a source of performance-based "alternative" music, the ...