1980 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1980.
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Events
January
- 2 January – BBC Radio 3 launches a new, extended teatime programme Mainly for Pleasure. The two-hour long programme replaces the much shorter Homeward Bound.[1]
- 13 January – Family Favourites is broadcast for the final time.
February
- BBC Radio Wales launches the first of two permanent community opt-out stations, Radio Deeside, after successful community radio experiments in 1978. The reopening is in response to the closure of the Shotton steelworks.
March
- 19–20 March – MV Mi Amigo, the ship from which the pirate radio station Radio Caroline is broadcast, runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary.
- 31 March – BBC Radio 1's broadcast hours are cut back. The station starts broadcasting on weekdays an hour later and Saturday evening programming ends. The station simulcasts BBC Radio 2 during this additional downtime although by the end of the year Radio 1 has stopped broadcasting Radio 2 through the night.
April
- 11 April – CBC in Cardiff becomes the first of the second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations to start broadcasting. It is the first new ILR station since 1976.
May
- 30 May – The final edition of soap opera Waggoners' Walk is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
June
- No events.
July
- No events.
August
- No events.
September
- September – Due to the continued expansion of BBC Local Radio, the regional news bulletins, broadcast in England four times a day Monday to Saturday on BBC Radio 4, end, apart from in the south west which is the sole part of England which still does not have any BBC local service.
October
- 18 October – Radio Tay begins broadcasting to the Dundee area from the Angus transmitter.
December
- 1 December – BBC Scotland carries out a one-week experiment in breakfast television. It is a simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland's breakfast show Good Morning Scotland.[2]
- 6 December – Andy Peebles records an in-depth interview with John Lennon in New York City for BBC Radio 1, two days before Lennon's murder.
Station debuts
- February – BBC Radio Deeside
- 11 April – CBC (Cardiff Broadcasting Company)
- 23 May – Mercia Sound
- 10 July – Hereward Radio
- 11 September – BBC Radio Norfolk
- 15 September – 2CR (Two Counties Radio)
- 17 October – Radio Tay
- 23 October – Severn Sound
- 7 November – DevonAir Radio
- 11 November – BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Closing this year
Programme debuts
- 8 April – Radio Active on BBC Radio 4 (1980–1987)
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)
Ending this year
- 30 May – Waggoners' Walk (1969–1980)
- 15 November – The Burkiss Way (1976–1980)
Births
- 7 May – Kate Lawler, reality TV personality, DJ and model
- Sara Mohr-Pietsch, classical music presenter
Deaths
- 9 February – Renée Houston, actress (The Clitheroe Kid) (born 1902)[3]
- 26 April – Dame Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Discord in Three Flats) (born 1893)
- 23 June – John Laurie, actor (The Man Born to Be King) (born 1897)
- 24 July – Peter Sellers, actor, comedian and radio personality (born 1925)
- 22 August – Norman Shelley, actor (born 1903)
- 6 October – Hattie Jacques, actress (Educating Archie, Hancock's Half Hour) (born 1922)[4]
- 19 October – D. G. Bridson, radio producer and author (born 1910)[5]
- 20 October – Isobel Barnett, broadcasting personality (born 1918; suicide)
- 8 December – Charles Parker, documentary producer (born 1919)
See also
References
- BBC Genome Project – Radio 3 listings 2 January 1980
- BBC Genome Project BBC1 Scotland listings 1 December 1980
- John Parker. Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 746.
- Merriman, Andy (2007). Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques. London: Aurum Press. pp. 205–8. ISBN 978-1-84513-257-6.
- The Listener. British Broadcasting Corporation. July 1980. p. 615.
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