1987 in British radio
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This is a list of events in British radio during 1987.
Events
January
- 1 January – A new transmitter for Radio 210 is switched on, allowing the Reading-based station to broadcast across Berkshire and north Hampshire.
- 3 January – BBC Radio 4’s Today programme is extended to six days a week when it launches a Saturday edition.
- 17 January – Johnnie Walker returns to BBC Radio 1 to present a new Saturday afternoon programme The Stereo Sequence.[1] The programme, which runs for 5 1/2 hours, incorporates the previous stand-alone Saturday afternoon shows, including the weekly look at the American charts.
February
- 9 February – BBC Radio 3 launches a twice daily news bulletin from the BBC World Service. The bulletins last for less than a year and are scrapped at the start of 1988.
March
- 3 March – Radio Trent's broadcast area expands when it starts broadcasting in Derbyshire.
April
- No events
May
- 18 May – The Yorkshire Radio Network launches. It is a networked service of evening and overnight programming, broadcast on three commercial radio stations in Yorkshire – Pennine Radio in Bradford, Viking Radio in Hull and Radio Hallam in Sheffield – providing programming every night between 8 pm, starting slightly earlier at weekends, and 6 am.[2]
- 22 May – GWR's broadcast area expands when it launches in Bath.
June
- No events
July
- 14 July – Beacon Radio's broadcast area is increased when it starts to broadcast to Shrewsbury and Telford.
- 17 July – John Timpson chairs Any Questions? for the final time.
August
- No events
September
- 4 September – Jonathan Dimbleby chairs Any Questions? for the first time.
- September – Around a year after the BBC's four local radio stations in Yorkshire launched an early evening series of specialist music programmes, the service is expanded. Programmes are broadcast on six nights a week (Wednesday to Monday) and the length of each programme is increased by 30 minutes. Consequently the four stations now stay on air into the mid evening as the programmes are transmitted between 7 pm and 9 pm.
October
- 4 October – From this day, the new UK Singles Chart is released on BBC Radio 1's Sunday afternoon chart show. Previously, the programme had played songs from the chart which had been released the previous Tuesday.
- 27 October – BBC Radio 4 launches a new twice-weekly soap opera called Citizens.
- 31 October – BBC Radio 1 begins launching its FM frequency starting in London.[3]
November
- No events.
December
- 6 December – Ocean Sound launches on a new frequency to cover Winchester and the north of its region, as reception in this area is rather poor from the 103.2 FM transmitter on Chillerton Down on the Isle of Wight. Ocean Sound North on 96.7 FM shares much of its programming with Ocean Sound West, except for a local breakfast show.[4]
Programme debuts
- 20 April – Flying the Flag on BBC Radio 4 (1987–1992)
- 27 October – Citizens on BBC Radio 4 (1987–1991)
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)
1980s
- In Business (1983–Present)
- Sounds of the 60s (1983–Present)
- After Henry (1985–1989)
- Loose Ends (1986–Present)
Ending this year
- 17 October – Radio Active (1980–1987)
- Unknown – Delve Special (1984–1987)
See also
References
- ↑ Audio of Johnnie Walker's return to Radio 1
- ↑ Audio of the launch of Yorkshire Radio Network
- ↑ "Radio 1 History – Transmitters". Radio Rewind. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ↑ "Audio of the launch of Ocean Sound North". aircheckdownloads.com. 2018-01-07. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
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