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BBC Radio 1 Dance is a British online-only radio stream, owned and operated by the BBC and run as a spin-off from BBC Radio 1.The station plays a mix of back-to-back current, future and classic electronic dance music, [1] and broadcasts exclusively on BBC Sounds.
The BBC Radio programme Dance Band Days ran from 1969 to 1995 with a playlist of British dance band music. It was presented by Alan Dell, and subsequently by Malcolm Laycock. The programme was later transferred to Sunday Night at 10, until the British dance band content was dropped by the BBC in 2008. [13]
This article is a list of people who led their own British dance band (distinct from British big band leaders, who played big band music). It includes those performers who were not British, but led a band based in Britain. [1
One week after the launch of Capital Dance, the BBC Radio 1 Dance stream was launched on BBC Sounds; the BBC's plans for this had been announced before Capital Dance was revealed. Following the successful launch of the station, a breakfast show hosted by Rio Fredrika was added to the station schedule from 4 January 2021, [ 3 ] with former KISS ...
Shipping forecasts were first broadcast by telegraph in 1859 and the first radio broadcast in the current format was broadcast in 1924. [4] [5] Grand Ole Opry: 99 67 by Jimmy Dickens: WSM: 28 November 1925 Over 5,000 Live country music [6] Choral Evensong: 98 BBC: 7 October 1926 Longest running live outside broadcast programme in radio history.
Wally Webb presents his final programme for BBC Radio Norfolk after 40 years with the station. [7] 3 January – Clare Teal presents her final edition of The Swing and Big Band Show on BBC Radio 2. [8] Cambridgeshire community station Star Radio joins the Peterborough and Cambridge DAB multiplexes, enabling it to extend its terrestrial coverage ...
The Dance Singles Chart and the Dance Albums Chart are music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the dance music genre (e.g. house, trance, drum and bass, garage, synth-pop) in record stores and digital downloads The chart can be viewed on the BBC Radio 1's and Official Charts Company's website.
Jack Jackson (20 February 1906 – 15 January 1978) was an English trumpeter and bandleader popular during the British dance band era, and who later became a highly influential radio disc jockey. The BBC's nickname "Auntie" is often credited to Jackson. [1]