2016 in British radio

This is a list of events in British radio during 2016.

List of years in British radio (table)
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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.
    • Absolute 80s, Planet Rock and Premier Christian Radio switch from Digital One to the new multiplex although the stations continue to broadcast on Digital One until the end of April.[3]
    • Jazz FM is made available nationally as a digital station again after leaving the national DAB multiplex at the end of 2013.[4]

March

April

May
  • 6 May – Orion Media announces that they have been bought by Bauer for an undisclosed fee, reportedly between £40 and £50 million.[6][7] 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.[8]

June
  • 1 June – A previous jingle package produced for Smooth Radio has been re-recorded for United Arab Emirates station 92 Smooth by Salford based Ignight Jingles.[9]
  • 21 June – The BBC completes its roll-out of BBC Local Radio on Freeview.[10]
  • 22 June – Jazz FM announces it will extend its morning business programme, Business Breakfast from 30 minutes to an hour on 24 June to cover the results of the EU membership referendum.[11]

July

August
  • 15 August – Jazz FM introduces a new schedule. Clare Anderson's The Late Lounge is dropped, while Mark Walker succeeds Helen Mayhew as presenter of Dinner Jazz. New one-hour programmes are also introduced at 6pm.[12]

September

October

November
  • No events.

December
  • No events.

Station debuts
  • 29 February – Heart Extra
  • 15 March –
    • Mellow Magic
    • Talksport 2
  • 21 March – Talkradio
  • 27 March – Premier Praise
  • 28 March – Magic Chilled
  • 30 March – Virgin Radio
  • 9 September – Union JACK

Programme debuts

Continuing programmes

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2010s

Ending this year
  • 28 October – The Music Goes Round (1981–2016)

Deaths

References
  1. Capital Liverpool Will Launch In January 2016 Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, Global Radio, 16 December 2015
  2. Rawlinson, Kevin; Sweney, Mark (25 February 2016). "BBC 'parted company' with Tony Blackburn over Savile inquiry evidence". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  3. "Absolute 80s, Planet Rock, Heat and Kisstory to end dual DAB transmission". a516digital.com. 15 April 2016.
  4. "Jazz FM returns to national DAB". Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  5. 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.
  6. Bauer buys radio group Orion Media Archived 2016-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 6 May 2016
  7. Orion Media sold to Bauer for £50m Archived 2018-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Telegraph, 6 May 2016
  8. "Tom Ross hosts his last radio show in Birmingham". Radio Today. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 18 June 2016.
  9. "Dubai's 92 Smooth gets Smooth Radio UK jingles". Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  10. "BBC Local Radio roll-out on Freeview to complete on 21st June". Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  11. "Jazz FM extends Morning Business for EU". Radio Today. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  12. "Jazz FM goes presenter-free late at night". Radio Today. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  13. "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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