1987 in British radio

This is a list of events in British radio during 1987.

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Events

January

  • 1 January – A new transmitter for Radio 210 is switched on, allowing the Reading-based station to broadcast across Berkshire and north Hampshire.
  • 3 January – BBC Radio 4’s Today programme launches a Saturday edition. The Saturday programme begins at 7am, 30 minutes later than the weekday editions.
  • 17 January – Johnnie Walker returns to BBC Radio 1 to present a new Saturday afternoon programme The Stereo Sequence. The programme, which runs for 5 1/2 hours, incorporates the previous stand-alone Saturday afternoon shows, including the weekly look at the American charts.

February

  • 9 February – BBC Radio 3 launches a twice daily news bulletin from the BBC World Service. The bulletins last for less than a year and are scrapped at the start of 1988.

March

April

  • No events.

May

June

  • No events.

July

August

  • No events.

September

  • 4 September – Jonathan Dimbleby chairs Any Questions? for the first time.
  • September – Just over a year after the BBC's four local radio stations in Yorkshire launched an early evening series of specialist music programmes, the service is expanded. Programmes are broadcast on six nights a week (Wednesday to Monday) and the length of each programme is increased by 30 minutes. Consequently, the four stations now stay on air into the mid evening as the programmes are transmitted between 7pm and 9pm.

October

  • 4 October – From this day, the new UK Singles Chart is released on BBC Radio 1's Sunday afternoon chart show. Previously, the programme had played songs from the chart which had been released the previous Tuesday.
  • 9 October – Radio 1 launches a new weekly Friday evening dance music programme, presented by Jeff Young.
  • 27 October – BBC Radio 4 launches a new twice-weekly soap opera called Citizens.[1]
  • 31 October – BBC Radio 1 begins launching its FM frequency starting in London.[2]

November

December

  • 6 December – Ocean Sound launches on a new frequency to cover Winchester and the north of its region, as reception in this area is rather poor from the 103.2 FM transmitter on Chillerton Down on the Isle of Wight. Ocean Sound North on 96.7 FM shares much of its programming with Ocean Sound West, except for a local breakfast show.

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See also

References

  1. "Citizens – BBC Radio 4 FM – 27 October 1987 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  2. "Radio 1 History – Transmitters". Radio Rewind. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
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