1980 in British radio
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This is a list of events in British radio during 1980.
Events
January
- 2 January – BBC Radio 3 launches a new, extended teatime programme Mainly for Pleasure. The two-hour long programme replaces the much shorter Homeward Bound.[1]
- 13 January – Family Favourites is broadcast for the final time.
February
- No events
March
- 19–20 March – MV Mi Amigo, the ship from which the pirate radio station Radio Caroline is broadcast, runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary.
- 31 March – BBC Radio 1's broadcast hours are cut back. The station starts broadcasting on weekdays an hour later and Saturday evening programming ends. The station simulcasts BBC Radio 2 during this additional downtime although by the end of the year Radio 1 has stopped broadcasting Radio 2 through the night.
April
- 11 April – CBC in Cardiff becomes the first of the second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations to start broadcasting. It is the first new ILR station since 1976.
May
- 30 May – The final edition of soap opera Waggoners' Walk is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
June
- No events
July
- No events
August
- August – Apart from in the south west, the regional news bulletins, broadcast in England four times a day Monday to Saturday on BBC Radio 4, end.
September
- No events
October
- No events
November
- No events
December
- No events
Station debuts
- February – BBC Radio Deeside
- 11 April – CBC (Cardiff Broadcasting Company)
- 23 May – Mercia Sound
- 10 July – Hereward Radio
- 11 September – BBC Radio Norfolk
- 15 September – 2CR (Two Counties Radio)
- 17 October – Radio Tay
- 23 October – Severn Sound
- 7 November – DevonAir Radio
- 11 November – BBC Radio Lincolnshire
- 14 November – Radio Tay
Programme debuts
- 8 April – Radio Active on BBC Radio 4 (1980–1987)
Continuing programmes
1940s
- Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
- Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
- Down Your Way (1946–1992)
- Letter from America (1946–2004)
- Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
- A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)
1950s
- The Archers (1950–Present)
- The Today Programme (1957–Present)
- Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)
1960s
- Farming Today (1960–Present)
- The World at One (1965–Present)
- The Official Chart (1967–Present)
- Just a Minute (1967–Present)
- The Living World (1968–Present)
- The Organist Entertains (1969–2018)
1970s
- PM (1970–Present)
- Start the Week (1970–Present)
- Week Ending (1970–1998)
- You and Yours (1970–Present)
- I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (1972–Present)
- Good Morning Scotland (1973–Present)
- Kaleidoscope (1973–1998)
- Newsbeat (1973–Present)
- The News Huddlines (1975–2001)
- File on 4 (1977–Present)
- Money Box (1977–Present)
- The News Quiz (1977–Present)
- Breakaway (1979–1998)
- Feedback (1979–Present)
- The Food Programme (1979–Present)
- Science in Action (1979–Present)
Ending this year
- 30 May – Waggoners' Walk (1969–1980)
- 15 November – The Burkiss Way (1976–1980)
Births
- 7 May – Kate Lawler, reality TV personality, DJ, and model
Deaths
- 24 July – Peter Sellers, English actor, comedian and radio personality (born 1925)
- 22 August – Norman Shelley, English actor (born 1903)
See also
References
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