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 – Forces request programme Family Favourites is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 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

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

November

December

Undated

Station debuts

Closing this year

Programme debuts

Continuing radio programmes

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1950s

1960s

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Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. BBC Genome Project – Radio 3 listings 2 January 1980
  2. BBC Genome Project BBC1 Scotland listings 1 December 1980
  3. Dennis, Tony (23 October 1981). "Black Pirates in the Grove". Time Out. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  4. John Parker. Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 746.
  5. Merriman, Andy (2007). Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques. London: Aurum Press. pp. 205–8. ISBN 978-1-84513-257-6.
  6. The Listener. British Broadcasting Corporation. July 1980. p. 615.
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