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9 September – BBC Radio 1 confirms its Christmas Takeover initiative to showcase new presenters will return for a third year over Christmas 2021. [267] 10 September – Former BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Shaun Keaveny presents his final afternoon show with the network after 14 years as a presenter on 6 Music. [268]
The BBC Radio 6 Music logo, 2007–2022. In February 2010, in anticipation of a review by the BBC Trust, newspaper reports suggested 6 Music might be axed. [28] The review stopped short of recommending closure but noted that only one in five UK residents were aware the station existed, and that it lacked presenters with credibility as music experts. [29]
FM 94.6 MHz; MW 774 kHz (1972–1 Jun 2021) BBC Radio Sheffield 15 November 1967 South Yorkshire Northern Derbyshire: Sheffield — 104.1 88.6 94.7 11C 734 FM 95.0 MHz; MW 1035 kHz (1972–27 May 2021) BBC Radio York 4 July 1983 North Yorkshire: York — 95.5 103.7 104.3 10C 720 MW 666 kHz (1983–24 Feb 2020) MW 1260 kHz (1983–24 Feb 2020)
BBC Radio 3 Unwind is a British online-only radio stream, owned and operated by the BBC and run as a spin-off from BBC Radio 3.Launched in 2024, the station plays a wide range of wellbeing and meditation focussed classical music both familiar and new, intertwined with voices and soundscapes.
With the increased rollout of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) between 1995 and 2002, BBC Radio launched several new digital-only stations BBC 1Xtra, BBC 6 Music and BBC 7 in 2002 on 16 August, 11 March and 15 December respectively – the first for "new black British music", the second as a source of performance-based "alternative" music, the ...
BBC Radio stations play a stripped back playlist of music all day, whilst commercial networks play easy listening music with minimal announcements, extended news bulletins and no advertisements. The BBC Radio 2 Live in Leeds Festival, scheduled for 17 and 18 September, is cancelled following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. [365]
The first female presenter to have a daily music show on BBC Radio 1, Long also appeared on other BBC Radio stations, such as BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio WM, and BBC Radio 6 Music, and was the first female regular presenter on the television chart show Top of the Pops, beginning in 1982.
His final 6 Music show was on 10 September 2021. After leaving BBC 6 Music he set up Community Garden Radio, an internet service which sees Keaveny broadcast a live show every Wednesday, and started a podcast called Creative Cul De Sac about people's unrealised ideas, as well as hosting The Line-Up, discussing guests' dream festivals. [15]