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BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.
Radio 4, along with other BBC Radio stations, stop broadcasting via Sky's analogue satellite service. 2002. 15 December – Radio 4 gets a digital spin-off station, BBC7. The station broadcasts content from BBC Radio’s spoken word archive, repeating programmes previously broadcast on Radio 4, as well as airing daily programmes for children. 2003
The BBC Home Service (launched 1 September 1939) became BBC Radio 4. BBC Radio 5 was launched on 27 August 1990 as a home for sport and educational and children's programming, but was replaced by BBC Radio 5 Live, a dedicated news and sport network, on 28 March 1994.
A BBC spokesman said: “The listings include a number of BBC ‘firsts’, including the first weather forecast, the first sports commentary, the first live concert, the first outside broadcast ...
16 January – Radio 4 News FM starts Gulf War broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 FM frequencies. 16 February – BBC1 and BBC2 receive new idents generated from laserdisc, BBC1 with a '1' encased in a swirling globe, and BBC2 with eleven idents based around the numeral '2'. 2 March – Radio 4 News FM closes and BBC Radio 4 returns to FM.
2022 in British radio – Permanent small-scale DAB multiplexes begin to go on air; The first full-time radio simulcast of a TV station begins when GB News Radio is launched on Digital One; Plans are announced to close BBC Radio 4's long wave service, BBC Radio 5 Live's medium wave frequency and BBC Radio 4 Extra as a cost-saving measure; The ...
The forecast was broadcast on the BBC National Programme until September 1939, and then after the Second World War on the BBC Light Programme (later BBC Radio 2) until November 1978. When BBC Radio 4 took over the longwave frequency from Radio 2 on 23 November 1978, the Shipping Forecast was moved to Radio 4 to keep it broadcasting on longwave.
The BBC will explore modernism in a series on Radio 3 and Radio 4 to mark 100 years of the movement. The centenary of modernism will be celebrated with programmes exploring the ideas, achievements ...