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March – BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra is renamed as Radio 5 Sports Extra as part of a rebranding of the BBC. [68] 24 March – For a temporary period, between 1am and 5am, BBC Radio 5 Live stops broadcasting overnight and rebroadcasts BBC World Service's programmes instead. [69] This continues until 2 April.
The success of Radio 4 News FM during the first Gulf War (1991) led the BBC to propose the launch of a rolling-news service. Initially the plan was to broadcast a rolling news service on BBC Radio 4's long wave frequency; but this met with considerable opposition, both internally and externally, [6] so the BBC decided to close BBC Radio 5 and replace the old service's educational and children ...
BBC Radio 5 was a national radio station that broadcast sports, children's and educational programmes. It ran from 1990 to 1994 and was transmitted via analogue radio on 693 and 909 kHz AM . On 28 March 1994, three years and seven months after the station started, it was replaced by BBC Radio 5 Live , following the success of rolling news ...
Previously, Radio 1 had 'borrowed' BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies for approximately 24 hours each week, gradually reducing at the end of the 1980s until the final 'borrow' took place in March 1990, five months before Radio 2 became the BBC's first FM-only service when on 27 August 1990, BBC Radio 5 began broadcasting on Radio 2's MW frequencies.
Telegraphy did not go away on radio. Instead, the degree of automation increased. On land-lines in the 1930s, teletypewriters automated encoding, and were adapted to pulse-code dialing to automate routing, a service called telex. For thirty years, telex was the cheapest form of long-distance communication, because up to 25 telex channels could ...
27 March – BBC Radio 5 ends transmission. 28 March – At 5 am, BBC Radio 5 Live, a dedicated news and sport network, starts broadcasting. 13 April – First BBC website created for the BBC2 series The Net. This is followed a month later by the launch of the subscription-based BBC Networking Club.
1920s: Radio was first used to transmit pictures visible as television. 1926: Official Egyptian decree to regulate radio transmission stations and radio receivers. [40] Early 1930s: Single sideband (SSB) and frequency modulation (FM) were invented by amateur radio operators. By 1940, they were established commercial modes.
2 February – BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra is launched. It is the first of five digital only radio stations that the BBC will launch in 2002. 11 March – BBC 6 Music is launched. 16 August – BBC Radio 1Xtra launches. 28 October – BBC Asian Network launches on DAB as a national station.