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1990. 24 September – Radio 3's Night School opens. It airs repeats 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, results in the morning broadcast now being heard on the inferior MW waveband.
Radio 3 is the successor station to the Third Programme which began broadcasting on 29 September 1946. [8] The name Radio 3 was adopted on 30 September 1967 when the BBC launched its first pop music station, Radio 1 [9]: 247 and rebranded its national radio channels as Radio 1, Radio 2 (formerly the Light Programme), Radio 3, and Radio 4 (formerly the Home Service).
Timeline of BBC Radio 3; Timeline of BBC Radio 4; Timeline of BBC Radio 5 Live; W. Timeline of the BBC World Service
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 ...
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 ...
Timeline of BBC Radio 3; U. BBC Radio 3 Unwind; W. BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music This page was last edited on 12 November 2023, at 10:04 (UTC). Text is ...
In March 2019, BBC Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey announced that Late Junction was being cut from three episodes a week to a single two-hour slot on Fridays from Autumn 2019. [10] More than 500 people from the world of music, including Brian Eno , Billy Bragg , Jarvis Cocker , Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy signed an open letter objecting to the ...
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]