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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year nav topic5 This is a list of events in British radio during 1994.

Events

January

February

March

April

  • 2 April
    • Out This Week, Britain's first national news programme for lesbians and gay men, launches on BBC Radio 5 Live.[2]
    • The first edition of Classic Gardening Forum is broadcast on Classic FM. The programme launches following the transfer of the production of BBC Radio 4's long-running gardening programme Gardeners' Question Time to an independent company upon which the entire previous panel is dismissed. They consequently move to Classic FM on a short-term contract to present Classic Gardening Forum, which runs for 60 minutes as a mixture of gardening tips and music.
  • 3 April – The closure of BBC Radio 5 sees children's programmes return to Radio 4. However, instead of daily programmes, just one weekly 30-minute programme is broadcast, airing on Sunday evenings.[3]
  • 8 April – Following the closure of BBC Radio 5, Test Match Special is broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s long wave frequency for the first time.
  • 10 April – Radio 5's closure sees adult education and Open University programmes return to Radio 4. They are broadcast on long wave only as a two-hour block on Sunday evenings. Open University programmes are broadcast between February and September with language courses aired from October until January.
  • April – Pick of the Pops returns, on Capital Gold.

May

  • 8 May – (Sunday) In the early hours, Annie Nightingale launches her career as a club music DJ, presenting the first edition of The Chill Out Zone on BBC Radio 1.

June

  • June – BBC Radio 1 begins broadcasting announcements on its medium wave frequency voiced by Nicky Campbell telling listeners to retune to FM because it will no longer be broadcasting on medium wave from 1 July.[4]
  • 20 June – Fortune 1458 launches in Manchester, headed by former Piccadilly Radio boss Colin Walters. The station uses BBC Radio Manchester's old MW frequency.
  • 29 June – The Radio Authority receives 41 applications for six London-wide licenses.[5]
  • June – Following the purchase of Cambridge station CNFM by GWR, the station is relaunched as Q103.
  • June – The name Victory, as a radio station for the Portsmouth area, is re-invented eight years after Radio Victory had stopped broadcasting. The name is resurrected to broadcast a 28-day Restricted Service Licence (RSL) to mark the city's 800th birthday and the 50th anniversary of D-Day. The station returns for a second RSL over the Christmas period of 1994 and again in 1995 to mark VE Day's 50th anniversary.

July

August

September

  • 1–16 September – The UK's first five regional commercial stations start broadcasting.

October

  • 5 October – News Direct 97.3FM and London News Talk 1152AM begin broadcasting. They replace LBC Newstalk and London Talkback Radio. The change occurs following last year's decision by the Radio Authority not renew LBC's licence, instead giving it to London News Radio, a consortium led by former LBC staff and backed by Guinness Mahon.[8]
  • 8 October – Virgin 1215 is awarded one of the new FM licences advertised in London.[9] The station applied for a London licence after attempts to persuade authorities to allow it to broadcast nationally on FM[10][11] had failed. The other three newly licensed stations are Heart 106.2, Premier Christian Radio and Viva 963.

November

  • No events.

December

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Births

Deaths

  • 5 January – Brian Johnston, 81, cricket commentator and radio presenter
  • 2 February – Anona Winn, 90, broadcasting personality
  • 23 January – Brian Redhead, 64, author, journalist and broadcaster

See also

References

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