1995 in British radio

This is a list of events in British radio during 1995.

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Events

January
  • January – As part of major changes on the network, old music (typically anything recorded before 1990) is banned from the Radio 1 daytime playlist.

February
  • 14 February – Talk Radio UK becomes the last of three national commercial radio stations to go on air. It broadcasts on the mediumwave frequencies previously occupied by Radio 1.

March
  • No events.

April
  • 10 April – Virgin Radio starts broadcasting on FM in London. The station is a full simulcast of the national service apart from a 45-minute weekday early evening programme. Consequently, at around this time, the national station is rebranded from Virgin 1215 to Virgin Radio.
  • 15 April – BBC Radio 3 launches a weekly music discussion programme called Private Passions.
  • 21 April – Steve Wright[1] and Bruno Brookes present their final shows for BBC Radio 1. Both had been at the station for more than ten years. Steve leaves following differences with the station's new management over restructuring.
  • 23 April – Following Bruno Brookes’s departure, Mark Goodier begins his second stint as presenter of the Sunday afternoon Top 40 show.
  • 24 April – Chris Evans takes over the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from Steve Wright.

May

June
  • No events.

July
  • No events.

August
  • Rather than merely broadcasting the usual mix of non-stop music and promos, Heart 106.2's test transmissions include live broadcasts of New York station WPLJ.[2] The station launches on 5 September.

September

October
  • 9 October –
    • BBC Radio 3 begins broadcasting an hour earlier on weekdays with breakfast show On Air extended from two hours to three hours.[4]
    • Paul Gambaccini joins Radio 3 to present a new morning programme called Morning Collection. Consequently, This Week's Composer moves to the later time of 12noon.
  • 21 October – Johnnie Walker ends his third and final stint at BBC Radio 1.

November
  • No events.

December
  • No events.

Unknown
  • The roll-out of BBC Radio 1’s FM network is completed and the station now has the same coverage on FM as the other BBC national stations and having been known on air as Radio 1 FM, or even simply as 1FM, since the start of the decade to promote the station's move to FM, the on air name reverts to Radio 1.
  • BBC Radio Scotland's irreverent sports show Off the Ball makes its debut.
  • Radio Harmony is rebranded as Kix 96 and changes frequency.

Station debuts

Closing this year
  • Sunrise East Midlands (1992–1995)

Programme debuts

Continuing radio programmes

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1970s

1980s

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Ending this year

Deaths
  • 30 January – Gerald Durrell, 70, naturalist, zookeeper, author and broadcast presenter
  • 5 March – Vivian Stanshall, 51, comic singer-songwriter and broadcaster
  • 4 April – Kenny Everett, 50, radio disc jockey and broadcast entertainer
  • 18 August – Alan Dell, 71, BBC radio presenter
  • 24 November – Stuart Henry, 54, DJ

See also

References
  1. BBC Genome project Radio 1 listings 21 April 1995
  2. "wplj before Heart 106.2". Digital Spy. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  3. Williams, Rhys (28 September 1995). "BBC switches on CD-quality radio". The Independent. Independent Print Limited. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  4. BBC Genome Project – Radio 3 listings 9 October 1995
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