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13 May – Radio Today reports that BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music will no longer post on Facebook and X in favour of TikTok and Instagram. [181] 15 May – Emma Barnett joins the Today programme, co-presenting alongside Amol Rajan. [182] 16 May – Bauer Media Audio UK's new headquarters at The Lantern near London's Euston Station is officially ...
The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2024. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, station launches, closures, and format changes, as well as information about controversies and deaths of radio personalities.
Sunak announces a further £2.5bn in military aid for Ukraine during 2024. [55] British Post Office scandal: The BBC reports that Post Office managers threatened and lied to the broadcaster in an attempt to conceal key evidence ahead of the broadcast of the 2015 Panorama documentary that brought the Horizon IT scandal to public attention. [56]
Sir Paul McCartney has become the first billionaire British musician according to the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List. [71] Girls Aloud embark on their concert tour The Girls Aloud Show, which the group called "a celebration of their music", as well as a tribute to deceased member Sarah Harding, who died from breast cancer in 2021. [72] 21 May
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. [1] The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. [2]
Times Radio is a British digital radio station owned by News UK, part of the Murdoch media empire. It is jointly operated by News Broadcasting (which News UK acquired in 2016, when it was known as Wireless Group), The Times and The Sunday Times. [1] [2] As of June 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 478,000, according to RAJAR. [3]
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The station was initially launched as BBC 7 on 15 December 2002 by comedian Paul Merton.The first programme was broadcast at 8 p.m. and was simulcast with Radio 4. [5] The station, referred to by the codename 'Network Z' while in development, was named without the word 'Radio' to reflect the station's presence on the internet and on digital television in addition to radio.