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BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also featuring. [1] The station has described itself as "the world's most significant commissioner of new music". [2] [3]
6 January – For the first time, BBC Radio 1's Sunday chart show plays all 40 tracks and the show is renamed as The Complete Top 40. [3] This becomes possible due to an extension of the programme's duration – starting half an hour earlier at 4:30 pm. 1992. 1 March – Mark Goodier ends his first stint as presenter of BBC Radio 1's Complete ...
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 ...
On 4 August 1962, when Radio Times was again revamped, the masthead was replaced with one incorporating the words in the Clarendon typeface; while the main change was the reduction of BBC radio schedules for three stations to a double-page spread brought down into size, the magazine now generally had between 60 and 68 pages, as compared to the ...
From that year, cricket commentary is broadcast only on MW, thereby allowing Radio 3's usual music schedule to continue on VHF. 1975. 29 September – Radio 3's weeknight teatime adult education slot Study on 3 is renamed Lifelines. 1976. 21 May – The final edition of Pied Piper is broadcast due to the death of the programme's presenter David ...
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]
(as BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent) Northern and mid-Staffordshire Southern Cheshire: Stoke-on-Trent — 94.6 104.1 12D 726 MW 1503 kHz (1974–23 May 2021 [11]) BBC Radio WM 9 November 1970 (as BBC Radio Birmingham) BBC Radio Birmingham • 1970–1981: Birmingham The Black Country Solihull Southern Staffordshire: Birmingham — 95.6 11B 11C 722
BBC Radio 3 announces that Elle Osili-Wood is to become the new presenter of its Sound of Gaming, replacing Louise Blain. [427] BBC Radio Nottingham presenter Andy Whittaker announces he is leaving the station after three decades with the BBC. [428] Global switches off of its 1548KHz London frequency used by Gold. Consequently, the only ...