1996 in British radio

This is a list of events in British radio during 1996.

List of years in British radio (table)
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Events

January

  • No events.

February

  • 4 February – Trevor Nelson joins BBC Radio 1 to present the UK's first national r&b show Rhythm Nation.
  • 5 February – Radio Wyvern becomes the last commercial radio station in England to end simulcasting on FM and AM.

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.
  • March – BBC Dorset FM closes and is replaced by a rebroadcast of BBC Radio Solent with localised news bulletins.

April

May

June

  • June – Radio 1 starts live streaming on the internet.[3]
  • 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. In November the Authority announces that XFM has been awarded the licence which will broadcast on 104.9.

August

September

October

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

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Deaths

  • 26 March – John Snagge, 91, newsreader
  • 29 April – David Davis, 87, radio executive and broadcaster
  • 11 May – Joan Thirkettle, 48, television journalist and radio personality[4]
  • 11 December – Willie Rushton, 59, comic performer, broadcast personality and cartoonist
  • 14 December – Norman Hackforth, 87, musical accompanist and radio "mystery voice"

See also

References

  1. "The BBC Radio Oxford 40 year timeline". BBC News. 12 October 2010. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
  2. BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 3 listings 4 May 1996
  3. "BBC Internet Services – History". BBC. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
  4. "Joan Thirkettle dies aged 48". The Independent. London. 14 May 1996. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
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