Timeline of BBC Radio 2

A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 2, a British national radio station which began broadcasting in September 1967.

1960s

  • 1967
    • 30 September – Radio 2 launches at 5.30 am, replacing the BBC Light Programme which had stopped broadcasting three-and-a-half hours earlier. BBC Radio 1 launches 90 minutes later.
  • 1968
    • No events.

1970s

  • 1971
    • August – Eric Robinson hosts Melodies for You for the final time.
    • 4 November – Radio 2 (and Radio 4) begin broadcasting in stereo in South East England. Stereo was rolled out to the rest of the country over subsequent years.[2]
  • 1972
    • 3 April – Terry Wogan joins from BBC Radio 1 to present a new weekday breakfast show. He replaces John Dunn, who moves to afternoons. Breakfast Special disappears from the airwaves at this point. Also a new early show is introduced, resulting in Radio 2 starting the day on weekdays and Saturdays 30 minutes earlier, at 5 am – Sunday broadcasting still commenced at just before 7 am.
    • 1 October – Sam Costa replaces Kenneth Alwyn as host of Melodies for You. Kenneth had hosted the show since the start of the year.
  • 1975
    • 6 January – Broadcasting hours are reduced due to budget cuts at the BBC. The former 5 am – 2 am schedule is reduced to a 6 am start up Mondays to Saturdays, 6:55 am on Sundays, and an earlier closedown time of around 12:33 am each day. The cuts also see the weekday afternoon show, presented by David Hamilton, broadcast on both Radio 1 and Radio 2.
    • 29 September –
      • The station closes slightly earlier, concluding its day at around 12:10 am Mondays to Fridays, and at 12:33 am on Saturdays and Sundays.
      • For the first time, Radio 2 stops being available on VHF/FM for an hour on weeknights when it lends its VHF/FM frequencies to Radio 1 between 11pm and midnight.
  • 1976
  • 1977
    • 4 April – From tonight, Radio 1 'borrows' Radio 2's VHF/FM frequencies for two hours each weeknight - between 10pm and midnight.
    • 28 November – David Hamilton afternoon show is now heard on Radio 2 only following the withdrawal of the 1975 economy measures which seen his show being simulcast on both Radios 1 and 2.
  • 1978
    • Brian Matthew takes Radio 2 Round Midnight for the first time.
    • 1 April – Broadcasting hours are extended to a 5 am – 2 am schedule when the budget restrictions were eased, and the pre 1975 broadcasting hours are re-introduced.
    • 23 November –
  • 1979
    • 27 January – BBC Radio 2 closes down for the final time, and at 5 am Radio 2 begins continuous broadcasting with You and the Night and the Music filling the overnight hours.

1980s

  • 1982
    • 3 December – Radio 2 is simulcast on Radio 1 for the final time.
  • 1984
    • 20 January – Ahead of changes to the schedule, following the decision not to renew the contract of long standing presenter Ed Stewart,[6] the year-long revival of Music While You Work ends and Gloria Hunniford takes over Ed’s slot the following week. Steve Jones replaces Gloria on the lunchtime show. Other changes see a new overnight programme, Nightride, replacing You and the Night and the Music. Pete Murray leaves and is replaced on his Saturday late show by Ken Bruce, who gets his first regular slot, and Sounds of Jazz moves to Radio 2 from Radio 1.
    • 28 December – Terry Wogan ends his first run as presenter of The Radio 2 Breakfast Show.[7]
  • 1986
    • 7 April –
    • 13 April – Richard Baker replaces Robin Boyle as host of Melodies for You.
    • December – David Hamilton leaves. He says that his reason for going is because the music policy had become “geriatric” following a repositioning of the station, under the influence of new Head of Music Frances Line, to appeal to over 50s with a playlist of nostalgia, easy listening and light music.
  • 1987
    • No events.
  • 1988
    • January – Sport bulletins are broadcast at breakfast for the first time. Previously, apart from a racing bulletin, sports news did not commence until lunchtime.
    • Chris Stuart replaces Ray Moore as presenter of the early show when the latter is struck down by cancer. Moore had presented the show since 1980; Stuart, previously breakfast presenter on BBC Radio Wales, has often covered for Moore since 1985. Graham Knight joins to present the weekend early shows.
    • 29 September – BBC Radio 1 'borrows' BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies on a weeknight for the final time following the start of a programme of switching on transmitters to allow Radio 1 to broadcast full-time on FM which, at this time, was available to 2/3 of the UK.

1990s

  • 1990
    • 6 January – BBC Radio 2 becomes available on FM on Saturday afternoons for the first time; a new music schedule is created, with Katie Boyle presenting a two-hour programme, while sport continues on MW.
    • 25 March – At 7 pm BBC Radio 2 becomes available on FM 24/7 for the first time after the final ever ‘borrow’ of its FM frequencies by BBC Radio 1.
    • 30 March – Ahead of major changes to the station’s output, Brian Matthew goes Round Midnight for the final time.
    • 31 March – As part of the changes a weekend late night Arts Programme and Sounds of the 50s, presented by Ronnie Hilton, are launched with Brian Matthew taking over as host of Sounds of the 60s.
    • 2 April – The changes to weekday programming 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 as a replacement for Sounds of Jazz and a weekday guest afternoon slot is introduced featuring a different personality choosing their favourite music each week.[10]
    • 15 August – BBC Radio 2 begins to wind down its transmissions on MW ahead of the launch of BBC Radio 5, which will occupy Radio 2’s MW frequencies, by broadcasting a daytime information service providing advice about how to listen to Radio 2 on FM.
    • 26 August – Sport is broadcast on Radio 2 for the final time.
    • 27 August – Radio 2 becomes the first national radio station in the UK to broadcast only on FM.
    • 16 September – Sunday Half Hour is revamped. Instead of coming from a different church each week, the show becomes a studio-based programme with Roger Royle as presenter.
  • 1992
    • 6 January – In a major shake-up of the daytime schedule, Brian Hayes takes over The Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Derek Jameson who moves to a new late evening slot to launch a new show, co-presented by his wife. Ken Bruce returns to the mid-morning show following Judith Chalmers’ departure and Ed Stewart, who rejoined the station the previous year, takes over as the mid-afternoon presenter.[12] Weekend changes see Melodies for You move to early evenings and Barbara Sturgeon replaces Graham Knight as presenter of the weekend early shows. The weekday music policy is slightly adjusted; Sunday afternoon output is branded Vintage Years, while John Sachs presents a Sunday morning show with a comparatively modern playlist compared to most of the station's other output at the time.
    • April – Alex Lester becomes the permanent early morning presenter (a slot previously hosted on rotation by the station's announcers and newsreaders) and in July Steve Madden becomes the permanent overnight presenter, a slot which had similarly been hosted by the presentation team on rotation since the late 1970s.
    • 23 December – Brian Hayes presents The Radio 2 Breakfast Show for the final time.
  • 1994
    • Mo Dutta joins to present weekend early morning programmes, replacing Barbara Sturgeon, and Martin Kelner rejoins after four years of only occasional appearances to present a Saturday afternoon programme and to stand in for other presenters. This Saturday show, along with documentaries and concerts broadcast after it, represents a tentative attempt to appeal more to the "Beatles generation", which the station is encouraged to appeal to in the 'People and Programmes' report published in February 1995.[13]
  • 1995
    • Radio 2, along with the other national BBC stations, begins broadcasting via DAB, although it is some time before this is widely available.
    • 21 April – Gloria Hunniford leaves; Debbie Thrower joins in June to begin a three-year early afternoon stint.[14]
    • October – Following the death of Alan Dell, Malcolm Laycock becomes presenter of Dance Band Days.
    • 19 November – Although he is still billed in Radio Times until 10 December, Charlie Chester is likely to have presented his last Radio 2 show on this day, before he had a stroke[15] after which he could not walk or speak.[16]
  • 1996
    • 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. The move is successful and people flock to the station and shortly after Radio 2 replaces Radio 1 as the most listened to station in the UK.
    • 30 March – Steve Wright joins to present weekend mid-morning shows. including launching Sunday Love Songs.
    • July – Hugh Scully takes over as presenter of Melodies for You.
    • 6 October – The first edition of The David Jacobs Collection is broadcast on Sunday evenings.
    • 29 November – Martin Kelner leaves.
  • 1997
    • 29 March – Bob Harris joins to present a Saturday late evening programme “for the discerning music fan”.[17]
    • 3 April – Derek and Ellen Jameson present their late night programme for the final time.[18] Richard Allinson takes over the late show from the following Monday.
    • 5 April – Pick of the Pops returns to the BBC. The programme is aired on Saturday afternoons with Alan Freeman returning as host. The programme had last been on the BBC on BBC Radio 1 at the end of 1992 and throughout most of the intervening period it had been broadcast on Capital Gold.
    • 31 August – Regular programming on the BBC’s radio and television stations is abandoned to provide ongoing news coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Radio 2 airs a special programme from BBC Radio News, which is also carried on 3, 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live.[19] Radio 2 broadcasts live coverage of the funeral six days later.
  • 1998
    • 13 April – Dance Band Days is broadcast for the final time.
    • 2 October – John Dunn presents his final drivetime show, having hosted the programme for 22 years.[20]
    • 5 October – A major overhaul of the schedule sees many new faces joining the network, including the singer Katrina Leskanich and former Radio 1 presenter Lynn Parsons, who present overnight shows on weekdays and weekends respectively, replacing Steve Madden and Charles Nove. Johnnie Walker joins Radio 2 as a regular presenter hosting the afternoon drivetime show (Monday to Thursday) with Des Lynam presenting the show on Fridays. Sally Boazman becomes the station's first official traffic presenter and, the following April, Bob Harris takes over a relaunched weekly country music programme from David Allan.
  • 1999
    • 26 April – Johnnie Walker is suspended from his drivetime show after allegations concerning a drug problem appeared in the Sunday tabloid, the News of the World.[21] Richard Allinson presents the drivetime show during Walker's absence, while Tom Robinson stands in on his Saturday afternoon show.
    • 5 July – Steve Wright in the Afternoon returns to radio after a break of several years as Steve Wright replaces Ed Stewart as the weekday afternoon presenter.
    • 1 August – Richard Baker begins his second stint as host of Melodies for You.[22]
    • 2 August – It is announced that ITV has signed BBC sports presenter Des Lynam on a four-year contract to become the company's main football presenter.[23] This means he will no longer present his Friday drivetime show.
    • 14 October – Managers at Radio 2 reinstate Johnnie Walker after he is fined £2,000 by magistrates for admitting possession of cocaine.[24] He returns to the air on 6 December.[25]

2000s

  • 2001
    • 10 May – For the first time, Radio 2 becomes the UK's most listened to radio station, overtaking Radio 1. [26] It has held that position ever since.
    • 1 October – Radio 2 starts broadcasting a weekly album chart show. The one-hour programme is broadcast on Monday evenings and is presented by Simon Mayo.[27]
  • 2002
    • 11 March – Spin-off station BBC 6 Music launches.
    • 20 December – Sir Jimmy Young presents his final lunchtime programme after nearly 30 years with the network, and 50 years with the BBC.[28]
  • 2008
    • 17 March – Humphrey Lyttelton retires. He had presented Best of Jazz for the last 40 years.[40]
    • 16 October – An episode of the Russell Brand Show, co-hosted by fellow Radio 2 presenter Jonathan Ross is recorded for transmission at a later date. The show includes Brand and Ross leaving four prank messages on actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone including offensive remarks about his granddaughter and use of foul language. The programme is subsequently broadcast on Saturday 18 October, partially censored, having passed the various pre-transmission checks from the programme's editors. Initially the programme only receives a negligible number of complaints regarding Jonathan Ross' bad language; however, after the incident is reported a week later by the Mail on Sunday a public outcry soon ensues. The case is referred to both Ofcom and the BBC Trust and in the interim Ross and Brand are both suspended for 12 weeks from all BBC programmes pending investigation. Soon after these announcements Russell Brand announces his resignation from the BBC shortly followed by Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas. Jonathan Ross is suspended from the BBC without pay for 12 weeks.[41][42]
    • 30 October – Controller Lesley Douglas's resignation is announced.
  • 2009
    • 27 January – Bob Shennan is appointed as Controller following the resignation of Lesley Douglas.[43] He takes up the position in February.
    • 13 March – The station confirms plans to overhaul its weekend schedule from April. This will include Paul O'Grady, Alan Carr and Emma Forbes joining the network to present shows, while the Saturday afternoon comedy hour will move to Thursday evenings. The changes will also see Johnnie Walker present Sounds of the 70s on Sunday afternoon.[44]
    • 5 April –
      • Sounds of the 70s returns to the airwaves on a regular basis with Johnnie Walker as presenter. The programme and been on air on an ad-hoc basis since 2000.[45]
      • Paul O'Grady presents his first Sunday teatime show as part of the weekend schedule changes[46]
    • 22 May – The BBC says that Jonathan Ross's show will no longer be broadcast live following complaints about a joke he made on an edition of the programme which some listeners interpreted as being anti-gay.[47]
    • 30 May – Mo Dutta leaves after 14 years of presenting weekend early shows for the station.[48]
    • 6 June – Zoë Ball and Emma Forbes join to present the Saturday and Sunday early show respectively.[49]
    • 26 July – Malcolm Laycock presents his final edition of Sunday Night at 10.[50]
    • 15 August – Malcolm Laycock criticises the network's management for abandoning its older listeners and claims he was constructively dismissed by the station, although Radio 2 denies this to be the case. Laycock resigned from his position following a long-running dispute with his producer over the content of his show, and because of issues regarding his salary.[51]
    • 18 December – After 27 years, Sir Terry Wogan presents his final breakfast show.[52]

2010s

  • 2010
    • 7 January – Jonathan Ross announces he will leave the BBC when his contract expires in July.[53]
    • 11 January – Chris Evans takes over as presenter of the breakfast show.[54] The programme's launch also sees the return of newsreader Moira Stuart to the BBC after two years.[55][56] Simon Mayo takes over the drivetime show.[57]
    • 11 March – BBC Radio 2 confirms plans to overhaul its schedule from April. This will include moving two of its longest-running shows, Big Band Special and The Organist Entertains to different timeslots, and switching its comedy hour from Thursday to Saturday evenings – the second time it has done this in 12 months.[58]
    • 30 April – It is reported that Emma Forbes has quit as co-host of the Saturday night show Going Out with Alan Carr after a disagreement with her bosses over time off.[59]
    • 5 July – The BBC Trust rejects BBC plans to close the digital station 6 Music saying there is not a strong enough case for closure.[60]
    • 3 September – BBC Radio 2 announces that Dawn Patrol presenter Sarah Kennedy is leaving the network after 17 years. By then she had been absent from the show for several weeks, and would not return to the programme before the schedules were reorganised in October. Lynn Parsons acts as the show's stand-in presenter for its remaining time on air.[61]
    • 2 October – Comedian Graham Norton takes over the Saturday morning show, formerly hosted by Jonathan Ross.[62]
    • 6 November – Tony Blackburn joins to replace Dale Winton as the regular host of the station's Pick of the Pops programme.[63]
  • 2011
    • 17 January – Vanessa Feltz takes over Sarah Kennedy's early morning show.[64]
    • 31 January – BBC Radio 2 announces the cancellation of its annual Electric Proms season after five years, citing financial considerations.[65]
    • 4 April – Jo Whiley joins on a permanent basis to present a new evening show. Jo had been an occasional stand-in presenter since 2009. She replaces Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie who are moving to BBC 6 Music to present that station's afternoon show.[66]
    • 22 June – Radio 2 hosts 2DAY, a day of 12 hour-long programmes to promote some of the station’s specialist output normally reserved for evenings and weekends.[67][68]
    • 28 August – Alan Titchmarsh presents the final edition of Melodies for You. The programme, dedicated to popular classic and light music, and part of the station's Sunday schedule since it launched in 1967, was scrapped as the station wanted to change its format for representing the genres.[69][70]
    • 11 September – The first Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park music festival is held in London's Hyde Park, with Gary Barlow as headline act.[71]
  • 2012
    • 28 January – Zoë Ball announces she is stepping down from the Saturday breakfast show. She will continue to provide cover for other presenters on the network.[72] She is replaced on 25 February by Anneka Rice.[73]
    • 6 February – Diane-Louise Jordan replaces Brian D’Arcy as host of Sunday Half Hour.[74]
    • 6 March – Comedian Alan Carr announces his intention to quit his Radio 2 show Going Out with Alan Carr so he can devote more time to his television career.[75]
    • 14 April –
      • Dave Pearce joins to host a weekly dance music show. Dave Pearce's Dance Years will air on Saturday evenings.[76]
      • Radio 2 airs a minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster.[77]
    • 12 May – Liza Tarbuck begins presenting her first regular show, having provided holiday cover on many previous occasions.[78][79]
    • September – Radio 2 ends the practice of having its own team of newsreaders. This role was taken on by journalists. As a result, Colin Berry leaves – he had been a newsreader for the station since 1973.
    • 17 October – Radio 2 axes folk presenter Mike Harding after fifteen years with the network. He will host his last show on 26 December.[80]
  • 2013
    • 20 January – The Sunday Half Hour is doubled in length but moves from mid-evenings to an early morning slot and is renamed accordingly, to The Sunday Hour. At the same time Clare Balding takes over as host of Good Morning Sunday.[81]
    • 4 August – After a career with Radio 2 spanning more than 40 years, David Jacobs retires.[82]
    • 5 October – Sara Cox joins to host Sounds of the 80s, a new programme dedicated to hits of the 80s.[83]
    • 1 November – Broadcasting of Paul Gambaccini's America's Greatest Hits is suspended from its Saturday night slot after the presenter is arrested as part of the Operation Yewtree investigation. Gambaccinini himself took the decision not to go on air following media interest in his arrest.[84][85]
  • 2014
    • 7–10 April – As part of the BBC's celebration of the 20th anniversary of Britpop, Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley present a week of Radio 1's long running The Evening Session on BBC Radio 2.[86]
    • 8 May – Radio 2 launches its very first pop DAB station BBC Radio 2 Eurovision. It returned a year later to cover the 2015 contest.
    • October – Radio 2 stops broadcasting a full overnight schedule as part of cost cutting measures. The 3 am to 5 am weeknight slot broadcasts repeats of weekly shows.
  • 2015
    • 5–8 March – Radio 2 launches its second pop-up station – BBC Radio 2 Country to cover the annual C2C: Country to Country festival. The station returned to cover the 2016 and 2017 event.
    • 27 March – Newsreader and continuity announcer Alan Dedicoat presents his final bulletins for the network after 28 years.[87]
  • 2017
    • 9 January – BBC Radio 2 announces that all remaining overnight live programming will be dropped as part of cost-cutting measures. Consequently, the After Midnight programme, presented by Janice Long and Alex Lester will be axed in favour of repeats of shows such as Sounds of the 60s and Pick of the Pops, while an automated service titled Radio 2 Playlists will air in the 2 am – 5 am slot.[91]
    • 25 February – Brian Matthew presents his final edition of Sounds of the 60s for Radio 2, following his sacking against his wishes having temporarily stood aside due to ill health.[92]
    • 4 March – Tony Blackburn succeeds Brian Matthew as presenter of Radio 2's Sounds of the 60s. The two-hour show also moves to the earlier time of 6 am.
    • 9 July – Diane-Louise Jordan presents The Sunday Hour for the final time.[93]
    • 30 September – The 50th anniversary of the launch of BBC Radio 2 (and BBC Radio 1) is celebrated.[94] The two stations air a joint 90-minute show presented by Nick Grimshaw and Tony Blackburn, and Radio 2 reconstructs the very first Radio 1 show – Tony Blackburn’s Disc Delivery.
    • 26 November – Clare Balding hosts Good Morning Sunday for the final time.[95]

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