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The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
1990. 24 September – Radio 3's Night School opens. It airs a repeat of the schools programmes broadcast the previous morning on BBC Radio 5.This allows schools to record an FM-quality transmission of the programmes which, following their transfer from Radio 4 to Radio 5, resulting in the morning broadcast now being heard on the inferior MW waveband.
MW 1602 kHz (until January 2018) BBC Radio Surrey 14 November 1991 Surrey Northeastern Hampshire Northern West Sussex: Guildford — 104.0 104.6 10C 722 MW 1368 kHz (until 3 January 2018) BBC Radio Sussex 14 February 1968 (as BBC Radio Brighton) East Sussex West Sussex: Brighton — 95.0 95.1 95.3 104.5 104.8 10B 720 MW 1161 kHz (until 3 ...
Damage. £1.2 billion (2018) [4] Areas affected. Great Britain and Ireland; much of continental Europe. Anticyclone Hartmut (dubbed the Beast from the East (Irish: An Torathar ón Oirthear) [5][6][7]) was a storm that began on 22 February 2018, and brought a cold wave to Great Britain and Ireland. Anticyclone Hartmut also brought widespread ...
2018. 24 February – BBC Radio 1 overhauls its weekend schedule. The changes see Maya Jama and Jordan North joining the network as weekend presenters, fronting the Greatest Hits programme, while Matt Edmondson moves to present a weekday afternoon show on which he will be joined by a different guest co-presenter each week.
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]
Helen Willetts. Helen Willetts (born 28 November 1974 in Chester, Cheshire, England) is a meteorologist on the BBC. She appears regularly on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 2. Willetts is an occasional weather forecaster on the BBC News at Ten on BBC One.
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]