1996 in British radio
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This is a list of events in British radio during 1996.
Events
January
- No events.
February
- 5 February – Radio Wyvern becomes the last commercial radio station in England to end simulcasting on FM and AM.[1]
March
- 15 March – Alan Freeman joins Virgin Radio to present a new Friday night rock show.
- 18 March – Mike Read replaces Nick Bailey as host of Classic FM’s breakfast show.
- 30 March – Steve Wright joins BBC Radio 2.
- 31 March – Michael Parkinson begins presenting Parkinson's Sunday Supplement on Radio 2.
- March – Jim Moir replaces Frances Line as controller and begins repositioning the station to attract a wider audience of over 35s, many of whom have moved to commercial radio following the repositioning of BBC Radio 1 three years earlier. He introduces a daytime playlist consisting of AOR/contemporary music with specialist programmes airing during the evening and at the weekend. Nostalgic/easy listening music is restricted to Sundays only.
April
- 1 April – Network News closes.
- 3 April – After 18 years, the name BBC Radio Manchester returns to the airwaves. Since 1988 the station had been called BBC GMR.
- 5–8 April – Classic FM broadcasts its first Hall of Fame over the Easter weekend.
- 9 April – BBC Radio Oxford and BBC Radio Berkshire are merged to form BBC Thames Valley FM.[2]
May
- 4 May – BBC Radio 3 commences 24-hour transmission.[3]
June
- June – Radio 1 starts live streaming on the internet.[4]
- June – Schools programmes are broadcast during the day for the final time. Schools programmes continued to be broadcast overnight until 2003.
July
- 1 July – The LBC name returns to London's airwaves following a rebrand of London News Radio's MW station News Talk 1152.
- 9 July – The Radio Authority receives 25 bids for the final FM citywide London licence. XFM is chosen as the winner, to broadcast on 104.9.
August
- No events.
September
- 9 September – Following a change in ownership, Manchester station Fortune 1458 is relaunches as Lite AM.
- September – Scottish Radio Holdings purchases Northern Ireland stations Downtown Radio and Cool FM.
- September – The Radio Authority awards a full-time commercial licence to a student radio station for the first time when it awards the Oxford licence to Oxygen FM.
- 27 September – Paul Gambaccini leaves BBC Radio 3 after less than a year with the station.
October
- October – Richard Skinner, who presented the first show on Virgin Radio, leaves.
November
- 4 November – The Asian Network expands into a full-time station when it increases the number of hours on air from 80 hours a week to 126 hours a week (18 hours a day). The station, which broadcasts on the MW frequencies of BBC Radio Leicester and BBC WM, is renamed BBC Asian Network.
- 14 November – London News relaunches its rolling news service as News Direct 97.3.
December
- 20 December – Steve Penk leaves Key 103 to move to Capital FM after 18 years at the Manchester station.[5]
Unknown
- Hallam FM switches off its transmitter covering Rotherham as part of its licence agreement.
- Matthew Bannister becomes Director of BBC Radio.
Station debuts
- 5 February – Wyvern FM and Wyvern AM
- Spring – Burn FM
- 4 April – 96.4 The Eagle
- 9 April – BBC Thames Valley FM
- 21 April – Spirit FM
- 24 May – FM102 The Bear
- 3 June – Asian Sound Radio
- 15 July – Oban FM
- 29 September – The Beach
- 23 November – Valleys Radio
Closing this year
- 9 April –
- BBC Radio Berkshire (1992–1996)
- BBC Radio Oxford (1970–1996)
- 1 September – Supergold (1988–1996)
Programme debuts
- 17 April – Chambers on BBC Radio 4 (1996–1999)
- July – Comedy Quiz on BBC Radio 4 (1996–1997)
- 6 October – The David Jacobs Collection on BBC Radio 2 (1996–2013)
- Unknown – Parkinson's Sunday Supplement (1996–2007)
Continuing programmes
1940s
- Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
- Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
- 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)
- Loose Ends (1986–Present)
1990s
- The Moral Maze (1990–Present)
- Essential Selection (1991–Present)
- No Commitments (1992–2007)
- Harry Hill's Fruit Corner (1993–1997)
- The Pepsi Chart (1993–2002)
- Wake Up to Wogan (1993–2009)
- Essential Mix (1993–Present)
- Up All Night (1994–Present)
- Wake Up to Money (1994–Present)
- Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade (1994–1997)
- Julie Enfield Investigates (1994–1999)
- Private Passions (1995–Present)
Ending this year
- January – Change at Oglethorpe (1995–1996)
- September – The Mark Steel Solution (1992–1996)
Deaths
- 29 April – David Davis, 87, Radio executive and broadcaster
- 11 May – Joan Thirkettle, 48, Television journalist and radio personality[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Audio of the launch of Radio Wyvern's split programming
- ↑ "The BBC Radio Oxford 40 year timeline". BBC News. 12 October 2010. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
- ↑ BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 3 listings 4 May 1996
- ↑ "BBC Internet Services – History". BBC. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
- ↑ Audio of Steve Penk’s final show at Key 103
- ↑ "Joan Thirkettle dies aged 48 – News". The Independent. Independent Print Limited. 14 May 1996. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
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