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This is a list of events in British radio during 2016.
Events
January
- 18 January – Following Global Radio's purchase of Liverpool station Juice 107.6, the station is relaunched as Capital Liverpool.[1]
February
- 19 February – BBC Radio Bristol stops broadcasting on MW following the sale of the land, on which the transmitter was located, to developers. In order to mitigate the loss of coverage the BBC switched on four new DAB transmitters in the area to help boost the station’s DAB coverage.
- 25 February – Tony Blackburn is sacked by the BBC[2] and Mark Goodier takes over as temporary host of Pick of the Pops.
- 29 February –
- The UK’s second national commercial multiplex starts broadcasting. However, only 73% of the UK's population is able to receive it.
- Jazz FM is made available nationally as a digital station again after leaving the national DAB multiplex at the end of 2013.[3]
March
- March – Manchester station Real Radio XS is rebranded as XS Manchester.[4]
April
- 9 April – Shortly after leaving BBC Breakfast, Bill Turnbull joins Classic FM to present the station’s weekend morning shows.
May
- 6 May – Orion Media announces that they have been bought by Bauer for an undisclosed fee, reportedly between £40 and £50 million.[5][6] This gives Bauer the West Midlands network of Free Radio stations and East Midlands regional station Gem 106.
- 17 May – The Free Radio network's head of sport, Tom Ross, presents his final programme after 35 years working for BRMB, Xtra AM, Capital Gold and Free Radio.[7]
June
- 21 June – The BBC completes its roll-out of BBC Local Radio on Freeview.[8]
July
- 9 July – Paul Gambaccini replaces Mark Goodier as host of Pick of the Pops.
August
- No events
September
- 17 September – After 35 years, Robbie Shepherd retires as host of BBC Radio Scotland’s Take the Floor show.
October
- 28 October – Desmond Carrington presents his final show for BBC Radio 2, having presented weekly shows for the station for the past 37 years.[9]
November
- No events
December
- No events
Station debuts
- 29 February – Heart Extra
- 15 March –
- Mellow Magic
- Talksport 2
- 21 March – Talkradio
- 28 March – Magic Chilled
- 30 March – Virgin Radio
- 9 September – Union JACK
Programme debuts
- 5 November – 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy on the BBC World Service (2016–2017)
Continuing programmes
1940s
- The Sunday Hour (1940–2018)
- Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
- Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
- A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)
1950s
- The Archers (1950–Present)
- The Today Programme (1957–Present)
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)
- You and Yours (1970–Present)
- I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (1972–Present)
- Good Morning Scotland (1973–Present)
- Newsbeat (1973–Present)
- File on 4 (1977–Present)
- Money Box (1977–Present)
- The News Quiz (1977–Present)
- 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)
- Essential Mix (1993–Present)
- Up All Night (1994–Present)
- Wake Up to Money (1994–Present)
- Private Passions (1995–Present)
- In Our Time (1998–Present)
- Material World (1998–Present)
- Scott Mills (1998–Present)
- The Now Show (1998–Present)
- Steve Wright in the Afternoon (1981–1993, 1999–Present)
2000s
- BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2000–Present)
- Big John @ Breakfast (2000–Present)
- Kermode and Mayo's Film Review (2001–Present)
- A Kist o Wurds (2002–Present)
- Fighting Talk (2003–Present)
- Jeremy Vine (2003–Present)
- Annie Mac (2004–Present)
- Elaine Paige on Sunday (2004–Present)
- The Bottom Line (2006–Present)
- The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show (2006–Present)
- The Unbelievable Truth (2006–Present)
- Radcliffe & Maconie (2007–Present)
- Geoff Lloyd with Annabel Port (2008–2017)
- The Media Show (2008–Present)
- Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s (2009–Present)
- Newsjack (2009–Present)
- Paul O'Grady on the Wireless (2009–Present)
2010s
- The Chris Evans Breakfast Show (2010–Present)
- Graham Norton (2010–Present)
- Simon Mayo Drivetime (2010–Present)
- The Third Degree (2011–Present)
- BBC Radio 1's Dance Anthems (2012–Present)
- Late Night Graham Torrington (2012–Present)
- The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw (2012–Present)
- The Show What You Wrote (2013–Present)
- Dead Ringers (2000–2007, 2014–Present)
- Friday Sports Panel (2014–Present)
- Home Front (2014–Present)
- The Chris Moyles Show (2015–Present)
- Stumped (2015–Present)
Deaths
- 9 January – Ed Stewart ("Stewpot"), broadcast presenter (Junior Choice) (born 1941)
- 31 January – Terry Wogan, broadcast presenter (Wake Up to Wogan) (born 1938 in Ireland)
- 14 February – Ali Brownlee, football commentator (BBC Tees) (born 1959)
- 17 March – Cliff Michelmore, broadcast presenter (Family Favourites) (born 1919)
- 21 October – Dave Cash, broadcast presenter (born 1942)
- 7 November – Jimmy Young, broadcast presenter (born 1921)
References
- ↑ Capital Liverpool Will Launch In January 2016 Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine., Global Radio, 16 December 2015
- ↑ Rawlinson, Kevin; Sweney, Mark (25 February 2016). "BBC 'parted company' with Tony Blackburn over Savile inquiry evidence". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ↑ "Jazz FM returns to national DAB". Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ↑ Macpherson, Ande (23 February 2016). "Real Radio XS to rebrand as XS Manchester". RadioToday. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ↑ Bauer buys radio group Orion Media Archived 2016-10-05 at the Wayback Machine., The Guardian, 6 May 2016
- ↑ Orion Media sold to Bauer for £50m Archived 2018-04-05 at the Wayback Machine., The Telegraph, 6 May 2016
- ↑ "Tom Ross hosts his last radio show in Birmingham". Radio Today. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 18 June 2016.
- ↑ "BBC Local Radio roll-out on Freeview to complete on 21st June". Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ↑ "Desmond Carrington leaves BBC Radio 2 – BBC News". BBC News. 30 September 2016. Archived from the original on 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
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