1976 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1976.
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Events
January to February
- No events.
March
- 8 March – Radio 210 begins broadcasting to the Reading area.[1]
- 16 March – Independent Local Radio begins in Northern Ireland when Downtown Radio, begins broadcasting to the Belfast area.[1]
- 29 March – Former BBC Radio Birmingham presenter Les Ross joins the lineup at Birmingham station BRMB.[2]
April
- 12 April – Beacon Radio in the Wolverhampton area is the final station in the first wave of Independent Local Radio stations to begin transmission.[1]
May
- 2 May – BBC Radio 1 launches Playground – a "magazine programme of special interest to young listeners." The new programme incorporates Young Ideas in Action which has previously been broadcast as part of Junior Choice.
- 17 May – BBC Radio Highland begins broadcasting programming in Gaelic.[3]
June to November
- No events.
December
- Capital London launches the 'Capital Radio Helpline'.
- The first Festive Fifty is revealed by John Peel on BBC Radio 1.
Unknown
- Capital London launches the 'Flying Eye', a traffic spotting light aircraft, which reports on traffic congestion on the streets of Central London.
Station debuts
- 8 March – Radio 210
- 16 March – Downtown Radio
- 12 April – Beacon Radio
Programme debuts
- 4 January – Quote... Unquote on BBC Radio 4 (1976– )
- 27 August – The Burkiss Way on BBC Radio 4 (1976–1980)
- 30 September – The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 (1976– )
- Poetry Please on BBC Radio 4 (1976– )
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)
- The Navy Lark (1959–1977)
- Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)
1960s
- Farming Today (1960–Present)
- The Men from the Ministry (1962–1977)
- Petticoat Line (1965–1979)
- 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)
- Hello Cheeky (1973–1979)
- Kaleidoscope (1973–1998)
- Newsbeat (1973–Present)
- The News Huddlines (1975–2001)
Ending this year
- 21 January – Petticoat Line (1965–1976)
Births
- 21 January – Emma Bunton, pop singer and broadcast presenter
- 23 March – Ed James, disc jockey
- 24 June – Zeb Soanes, newsreader
- 8 August – Laura Kuenssberg, political journalist
- 9 August – Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio presenter and producer
- 20 November – Debbie Barham, comedy scriptwriter (died 2003)
Deaths
- 15 May – David Munrow, early music performer and presenter (Pied Piper on BBC Radio 3), suicide (born 1942)
See also
References
- Radiomusications: Radio Reference: Independent Local Radio Stations (TBS Editors) Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine; accessed 18 February 2010
- Young, Graham (17 January 2018). "Best friend Les Ross reveals fellow radio star Ed Doolan's final wish". Birmingham Mail. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- McDowell, W.H. (1992). The History of BBC Broadcasting in Scotland 1923–1983. Edinburgh University Press. p. 257. ISBN 0-7486-0376-X.
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