1990 in British radio

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This is a list of events in British radio during 1990.

Events

January

  • 6 January – BBC Radio 2 becomes available on FM on Saturday afternoons for the first time. Previously the station’s FM frequencies were loaned out at this time to BBC Radio 1 but this is no longer necessary as Radio 1 is now available on FM across much of the UK. The weekday late evening ‘borrow’ had ceased in October 1988.
  • 8 January –
    • BBC Radio 1 launches a new 30 minute news programme News 90 which replaces the teatime edition of Newsbeat.
    • BBC Radio 1 launches a new jingles package called ‘’Music Radio for the 90s’’.
  • January – Frances Line replaces Bryant Marriott as controller of BBC Radio 2.[1]

February

  • 11 February – BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting on FM in south west England.[2]

March

April

  • 2 April – The changes to weekday programming on BBC Radio 2 begin today. Ken Bruce launches a new late night programme with Judith Chalmers replacing Ken at mid-mornings, a weeknight late night jazz show called Jazz Parade is launched and a weekday guest afternoon slot is introduced featuring a different personality choosing their favourite music each week.[5]

May

  • 24 May – BBC Radio 1 begins FM transmission in Central Southern England.[6] Also during 1990, the transmitters established in 1988 move to higher power.

June

  • 1 June – Red Rose Radio, which was transmitted on 97.4 MHz and 999 kHz, is split into two stations – Red Rose Rock FM using the FM frequency and Red Rose Gold on the medium wave frequency.
  • 22 June – Orchard FM expands its coverage southwards when a transmitter covering the southern parts of south Somerset and parts of north Dorset is switched on.[7]
  • 25 June –
    • Spectrum Radio launches, broadcasting programmes for London's various ethnic communities. However the frequency allocated to the station was being used by pirate station Radio Caroline, thereby causing interference with Spectrum's transmissions. The Independent Broadcasting Authority, in agreement with the Department for Trade and Industry, allowed Spectrum to temporarily broadcast on 990 kHz alongside 558 kHz.[8] Caroline eventually vacated the 558 kHz frequency and the temporary transmitter was switched off.
    • The same day sees the launch of two other Incremental radio stations – Airport Information Radio, providing travel information for users of Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport, and Glasgow station East End Radio. Airport Information radio closed the following year and East End Radio closed when it had its licence revoked.[9]

July

  • No events.

August

  • August – Atlantic 252 starts broadcasting in the evening and is now on air from 6 am until 2 am.
  • 15 August – BBC Radio 2 begins to wind down its transmissions on MW ahead of the launch of BBC Radio 5 by providing a daytime information service providing advice about how to listen to Radio 2 on FM.
  • 20 August – The Moral Maze is broadcast for the first time on BBC Radio 4.
  • 26 August – Sport is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for the final time and educational programmes are broadcast on BBC Radio 4 for the final time.
  • 27 August – The BBC's long awaited fifth national radio station, BBC Radio 5 is launched on the old Radio 2 mediumwave frequency. The station mainly carries sports, children's and educational programmes. Consequently, Radio 2 becomes the first national radio station in the UK to broadcast only on FM.

September

October

  • 1 October –
    • The Evening Session debuts on BBC Radio 1, presented by Mark Goodier.
    • BBC Radio 3 stays on air for an extra 30 minutes on weeknights, ending broadcasting at 12.35am. The station continues to close at midnight at the weekend.

November

December

  • No events.

Station debuts

Programme debuts

Continuing programmes

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1980s

Ending this year

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Radio 2 chief appointed", The Times page 7, 3 October 1989
  2. ↑ BBC Genome listing - Radio 1 11 February 1990
  3. ↑ "Entertainment | Jazz FM goes for new smooth title". BBC News. 15 February 2005. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  4. ↑ Graham, Stephen (9 September 2010). "Jazz breaking news: Jazz FM To Air Ella Fitzgerald Historic Albert Hall Broadcast". Jazzwise Magazine. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  5. ↑ BBC Genome Project – BBC Radio 2 listings 2 April 1990
  6. ↑ BBC Genome listing - Radio 1 24 May 1990
  7. ↑ IBA Engineering Announcements 19 June 1990
  8. ↑ IBA Engineering Announcements 5 June 1990
  9. ↑ UK Radio History 3, Commercial Radio, ILR, Capital Radio, By Mike Smith Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
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