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1990. 24 September – Radio 3's Night School opens. It airs repeats of schools programmes broadcast the previous morning on BBC Radio 5.This allows schools to record an FM-quality transmission of the programmes which, following their transfer from Radio 4 to Radio 5, resulting in the morning broadcast now being heard on the inferior MW waveband.
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).
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.
2005 in British radio – BBC Radio 3 twice clears its schedule to devote several days to the music of a single composer, with Ludwig van Beethoven and Johan Sebastian Bach; London's 102.2 Jazz FM closes after fifteen years on air and is replaced by 102.2 Smooth FM; The UK's first Islamic radio station, Islam Radio, is established in Bradford ...
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]
Timeline of BBC Radio 3; Timeline of BBC Radio 4; Timeline of BBC Radio 5 Live; W. Timeline of the BBC World Service
17 January–2 March – Radio 4 News FM, the first rolling BBC Radio news service is on air during the first Gulf War. It broadcasts on BBC Radio 4’s FM frequencies with the regular scheduled service continuing on long wave. [11] [12] 1992. late March-7 April – For the first time, Radio 4 long wave opts out of the main Radio 4 schedule.
The BBC also syndicates radio and podcast content to radio stations and other broadcasting services around the globe, through its BBC Radio International business, which is part of BBC Studios. Programmes regularly syndicated by BBC Radio International include: In Concert (live rock music recordings from BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, including ...