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10 June – Premier Christian Radio becomes the UK's first Christian radio station when it launches on AM across London. 25 June – Vale FM begins broadcasting to the Shaftesbury area of Dorset. 3 July – Viva 963 becomes the UK's first female-orientated radio station when it starts broadcasting on AM across London.
2005 in British radio – BBC Radio 3 twice clears its schedule to devote several days to the music of a single composer, with Ludwig van Beethoven and Johan Sebastian Bach; London's 102.2 Jazz FM closes after fifteen years on air and is replaced by 102.2 Smooth FM; The UK's first Islamic radio station, Islam Radio, is established in Bradford ...
Pirate radio in the UK first became widespread in the early 1960s when pop music stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London started to broadcast on medium wave to the UK from offshore ships or disused sea forts. At the time, these stations were not illegal because they were broadcasting from international waters.
BBC Radio 2 is the UK's most listened-to radio station, playing classic and contemporary music for an older audience, as well as specialist music programmes in the evening (FM 88.1 - 90.2 MHz) BBC Radio 3 is a classical music station, broadcasting concerts and operas.
Later more local stations were introduced. There is also one national commercial radio station, Classic FM. Commercial radio stations simulcasted on both FM and medium waves from the beginning until the IBA asked radio stations to end the practice and from 1988 stations began to offer separate stations on each waveband. Typically another ...
The BBC stations carried are its five digital stations plus BBC Radio 5 Live and the BBC World Service. Five commercial stations - Smash Hits, Kerrang! and Kiss, oneword and 102.2 Jazz FM - also appear on Freeview on this day. [8] Previous DTT operator ITV Digital had never carried radio stations. 15 December – BBC 7 is launched.
The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer to general history .
During the first half of 1984, the other community radio station trials take place. The station airdates are BBC Radio Bury (late 1983/early 1984), BBC Radio Oldham, BBC Radio Rochdale (eight weeks from 14 May 1984), BBC Radio Trafford and BBC Radio Skelmersdale (summer 1984). [4] 1985. 23 April – BBC Radio Shropshire launches.