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Consequently, the full Radio 4 schedule became available on FM for the first time. However, adult educational and Open University programming returned to Radio 4 in 1994 when Radio 5 was closed to make way for the launch of BBC Radio 5 Live and were broadcast until the end of the 1990s on Sunday evenings on longwave only.
This is a list of current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.. When it came into existence – on 30 September 1967 – Radio 4 inherited a great many continuing programme series which had been initiated prior to that date by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service (1939–1967), and in some cases even by stations which had preceded the Home Service.
27 August – The launch of Radio 5 sees the full Radio 4 schedule broadcast on FM for the first time. 1991. 17 January–2 March – Radio 4 News FM, the first rolling BBC Radio news service is on air during the first Gulf War. It broadcasts on the station's FM frequencies, with the regular scheduled service continuing on long wave. [28] [29]
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.
BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show host Zoe Ball, who announced this week she would be stepping back from the role in December after six years, will also be picking some of her favourite tunes, from Frank ...
Changes to the BBC Radio 4 weekly schedule begin. The Daily Service is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra for the first time and Shipping Forecasts are reduced from four bulletins each day to two on weekdays and three at the weekend. [129] A new weeknight jazz programme launches on BBC Radio 3.
Sport on Four was a long-running BBC radio sports programme aired on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday mornings between 30 April 1977 [1] and 4 April 1998. [2] Its original presenter was former Welsh cricketer Tony Lewis.
In Metro Manila, Philippines, FM radio station DWOW relaunches as All Radio 103.5, with a Soft AC format. The rebranding aligns with its TV counterpart All TV, and the businesses owned by former politician and businessman Manny Villar. 4 KTFS/940-Texarkana, Texas, switches from its gospel format to sports as ESPN Radio.