1985 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1985.
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Events
January
- 7 January – Ken Bruce takes over The Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Terry Wogan.[1]
February
- 4 February – After broadcasting off and on since 1969, Radio Jackie's time as a pirate station ends. It returns 18 years later as a legal station, broadcasting to the same area of south west London that it had served as a pirate.
- 13 February – Financial difficulties force South Wales station Gwent Broadcasting to close down after less than two years on air.[2]
March
- 31 March – Ranking Miss P becomes BBC Radio 1's first black female DJ when she begins presenting the station's first reggae programme. This was not her first appearance on the station, however, as she had been sitting in for other presenters for the past year.
April
- April – Following the closure of Gwent Broadcasting, CBC expands its broadcast area to cover the Newport area of South Wales.
May
- No events.
June
- 29 June – BBC Radio's adult educational strand Study on 4 is renamed Options. All programming now broadcast on weekend afternoons. The programmes continues to be broadcast only on BBC Radio 4's FM frequencies.[3]
July
- 13 July – BBC Radio 1 broadcasts full, live coverage of the Live Aid pop concerts. This gives people the ability to hear the concerts in stereo.
August
- During the 1985 school summer holidays, BBC Radio 4 broadcasts an all-morning children's programme called Pirate Radio 4 on Thursday mornings. Three editions of the programme are aired. It is broadcast on VHF/FM only with the usual Radio 4 schedule continuing on long wave.
September
- September – Wiltshire Radio buys struggling Radio West and on 1 October a merged station, GWR, launches.
October
- 1 October – Radio Hallam's broadcast area is expanded when the Sheffield-based station starts broadcasting across all of South Yorkshire.
- 14 October – CBC is relaunched as Red Dragon Radio. The station also covers the Newport area, offering a replacement service to Gwent Broadcasting and provides separate breakfast shows for Cardiff and Newport until the early 1990s.[4]
- October – Plymouth Sound launches an opt-out service for Tavistock. The service operates on weekday breakfast and drive time and weekend mid-mornings.
- October – Kiss makes its first broadcasts as a pirate station.
November
- No events.
December
- No events.
Station debuts
- 23 April – BBC Radio Shropshire
- 24 June – BBC Radio Bedfordshire
- 1 October –
Changes of station frequency
| Station | Area | Moved from | Moved to |
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| Essex Radio | Chelmsford | 96.4FM | 102.6FM |
| Essex Radio | Southend | 95.3FM | 96.3FM |
| Saxon Radio | Bury St Edmunds | 96.3FM | 96.4FM |
| Invicta Sound | Canterbury | 95.1FM | 102.8FM |
| Invicta Sound | Maidstone & Medway | 103.6FM | 102.7FM |
| Pennine Radio | Huddersfield & Halifax | 103.4FM | 102.5FM |
| BBC Radio Sussex | East Sussex | 103.1FM | 104.5FM |
| BBC Radio Sussex | Reigate and Crawley | 102.7FM | 104.0FM |
Closing this year
- 13 February – Gwent Broadcasting (1983–1985)
- 9 September – Radio West (1981–1985)
- September – Wiltshire Radio (1982–1985)
Programme debuts
- 17 April – After Henry on BBC Radio 4 (1985–1989)
- 25 July – Pirate Radio Four on BBC Radio 4 (1985–1986)
Continuing radio 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)
1980s
- Radio Active (1980–1987)
- In Business (1983–Present)
- Sounds of the 60s (1983–Present)
- Delve Special (1984–1987)
Births
- 5 February – Emma Barnett, broadcast presenter and journalist
- 22 February – Toddla T (Thomas Bell), DJ
- 19 March – Gemma Cairney, radio presenter and fashion stylist
- 5 November – Dan Richards, radio presenter and producer
- 17 December – Greg James, DJ
- 27 December – Matt Edmondson, broadcast music presenter
Deaths
- 9 May – Reginald Dixon, 80, theatre organist
- 28 May – Roy Plomley, 71, creator and presenter of Desert Island Discs
- 24 June – Valentine Dyall, 77, character actor
- 6 November – Hans Keller, 66, musicologist
- 23 November – Leslie Mitchell, 80, announcer
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gollark: > I would agree that knowledge passed down from generations is good, but with one major condition. [...]Science doesn't "prove" things and social things are VERY HARD to test.
gollark: You literally said that people have less long term memory now earlier.
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gollark: Rule of law and all.
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