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2024 In British Radio
This is a list of events in 2024 relating to radio in the United Kingdom. Events January * 1 January – ** Launch of Bournemouth One. The station begins with a welcome message from Tobias Ellwood, the MP for Bournemouth East (UK Parliament constituency), Bournemouth East. ** Josh Tate, believed to be the UK's youngest newsreader, presents his own New Year's Day show on Radio Exe. ** Former BBC Radio 2, Radio 2 presenter Steve Madden joins Portsmouth's Victory Radio to present a late night weekend show. ** Alex Hall presents her final show for BBC Radio Tees after 35 years in local radio, 18 of them with Radio Tees. * 2 January – ** Audible Always, producers of the internationally syndicated programme Selector Radio, confirms that BBC Radio 1, Radio 1 presenter Sian Eleri will take over as presenter of the weekly show. ** Bauer Radio begins experimenting with a mixed Salisbury/Hampshire local news service for Greatest Hits Radio Salisbury, which it later says was done because it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio In The United Kingdom
Radio enjoys a huge following in the United Kingdom. There are around 600 licensed radio stations in the country. For a more comprehensive list see List of radio stations in the United Kingdom. BBC Radio The most prominent stations are the national networks operated by the BBC. Five of them are available on analogue radio ( FM and AM) whilst the rest are available on DAB, along with the other five (at 12B, the BBC National multiplex). * BBC Radio 1 broadcasts contemporary pop and rock music output, including live sessions, for a youth audience, with specialist genres and programmes in the evening (FM 97.1 - 99.8 MHz) * BBC Radio 1Xtra broadcasts hip hop, R&B and drum and bass, featuring simulcasts on Radio 1 weeknights and Saturday nights * BBC Radio 2 is the UK's most listened-to radio station, playing classic and contemporary music for an older audience, as well as special interest programmes in the evening (FM 88.1 - 90.2 MHz) * BBC Radio 3 is a classical music station, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio 1 Breakfast Show
''Radio 1 Breakfast'' is a radio show that is broadcast across the UK on BBC Radio 1. It is hosted by Greg James since 20 August 2018 as the show's 16th presenter. The show ran six days a week until February 1968 (seBBC Genome Project, then five days a week until June 2018, when the Friday show was dropped and incorporated into the station's weekend schedule, hosted by ''Weekend Breakfast'' hosts Matt Edmondson and Mollie King. In January 2021, the show returned to broadcasting five days per week. History The first breakfast show presenter was Tony Blackburn, who spoke the first words on Radio 1 and remained in the slot for nearly six years. Other DJs who have hosted the breakfast show for more than five years are former hosts Nick Grimshaw, Mike Read, Simon Mayo, and Chris Moyles. Moyles was the longest-serving Radio 1 breakfast show presenter, having hosted Radio 1's ''The Chris Moyles Show'' for eight years from 2004 to 2012. *Data supplied by thBBC Genome Project Nick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gem Radio
Hits Radio East Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station based in Nottingham, England, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to the East Midlands. As of March 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 253,000 listeners according to RAJAR. History Radio 106 Radio 106 launched at 6am on Tuesday 23 September 1997. Billed as ''Radio for Grown Ups'', with an advertising campaign on Central TV for the launch, and an episode of Central TV's '24 hours' in 1998 documented the launch and the relaunch of the station, the station was launched by ex-Radio Trent managing director Ron Coles with former Centre Radio MD Ken Warburton as programming controller. The first presenter on air was Dickie Dodd. Radio 106's launch schedule included a heavy emphasis on speech content, including daily guests on mid-morning shows and a nightly 3-hour phone-in. Specialist music output featured country, soul and motown at weekends. The station' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Radio
''Free Radio'' is a television show, created by Lance Krall and Rory Rosegarten. The show originated on VH1, but has also played on Comedy Central, and Super Channel (Canada). It stars Lance Krall, prominent for his role on ''The Joe Schmo Show'', and Anna Vocino, who also starred with Krall on ''The Lance Krall Show''. Plot The show focuses on a dysfunctional radio station, KBOM. Krall plays a moronic intern turned moronic DJ when KBOM's regular shock jock, Rip Rebel, defects to satellite radio. Lance eventually gets his own show entitled ''Moron in the Morning''. Real celebrities guest star as themselves with Lance, who often either does not realize who they are or mixes them up with other celebrities on the air. Most of the dialogue is improvised. Characters Lance Krall as Lance, a former intern at KBOM who gets a job as a radio host, after the former host, Rip Rebel, leaves. He becomes inexplicably popular due to his ignorance and bold stupidity while interviewing celebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juice Radio
Juice Radio is a community radio station based in Preston, Lancashire, which broadcasts pop and dance music. It was initially established in 2008 as Preston FM before relaunching in 2015 as City Beat, subsequently known as Beat 103. On the 8th of January 2024 the station merged into the digital radio station Juice Radio, which took over the 103.2 MHz frequency used by Beat. History Preston FM Preston FM was initially operated by Prescap (Preston Community Arts Project), a local arts charity. It originally broadcast six Restricted Service Licence trials over three years from October 2005 to June 2008 and subsequently received a full-time community radio licence from Ofcom. The station was partly backed by EU funding. It broadcast a wide range of music and speech programming by local presenters and arts practitioners. Speech programming included the serialisation of a novel by a local writer. In April 2012, the Prescap charity closed due to the loss of its Arts Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic FM (UK)
Classic FM (styled as CLASSIC M) is one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations and is owned and operated by Global. The station broadcasts classical music and was launched in 1992. Classic FM was the first national classical music station to launch since the opening of BBC Radio 3, 25 years earlier, in September 1967, and 46 years since the opening of Radio 3's predecessor, The Third Programme, in September 1946. Until March 2019, when Scala Radio was launched, it was the only privately-owned classical music radio service broadcasting terrestrially in the UK; it is still, however, the only such service broadcasting on analogue FM radio. , the station has a weekly audience of 4.6million listeners. Overview Classic FM broadcasts nationally on FM, DAB digital radio, Freeview, satellite and cable television and is available internationally by streaming audio over the internet. It is the only Independent National Radio station to broadcast on FM alongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Walker (broadcaster)
Daniel Meirion Walker (born 19 March 1977) is an English journalist, newsreader and television presenter. He currently presents ''5 News'' on Channel 5. He was the host of ''Football Focus'' from 2009 to 2021, as well as ''BBC Breakfast'' from 2016 until May 2022. He also presented shows on BBC Radio 5 Live and presented ''Sportsday'' on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News, as well as regularly reporting for ''Final Score'' and ''Match of the Day''. Early life Walker was born on 19 March 1977 in Crawley, Sussex, to a Welsh mother. He lived in Crawley until the age of 18, where he attended Ifield Primary School, Three Bridges Middle School, and Hazelwick Secondary School. He earned a BA (Hons) degree in History in 1998 and an MA degree in Journalism Studies in 1999 at the University of Sheffield. Career Radio Walker's professional broadcasting career started with work experience at Sheffield's Hallam FM. He gained the work experience after winning a competition for you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom Rock (radio Station)
Boom Rock is a small island off the west coast of the Wellington Region, New Zealand. See also * List of islands of New Zealand References Uninhabited islands of New Zealand Islands of the Wellington Region Islands of the Tasman Sea {{Wellington-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom Radio
Boom Radio (also Boom Radio UK) is an independent, commercial, national radio station in the United Kingdom. Owned by Boom Radio Ltd, the station is aimed at baby boomers, the generation of people born between 1946 and 1964, and is the first radio station in the UK to specifically target this age demographic. Launched on 14 February 2021, Boom Radio broadcasts nationally on the Sound Digital DAB multiplex and is also available online. The station was developed and launched by Phil Riley and David Lloyd, two commercial radio executives who felt older listeners were being overlooked by stations such as BBC Radio 2 in favour of a younger audience, and Boom plans to compete with Radio 2. Boom's content features a mixture of music, conversation and radio personality, with presenters including many who have previously made their name in national and commercial radio, such as Graham Dene, David Hamilton and Diana Luke. The programming for Boom Radio is recorded and presented remotely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Mangan
Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in ''Green Wing'', Dan Moody in '' I'm Alan Partridge'', Seán Lincoln in ''Episodes'', Bigwig in ''Watership Down'', Postman Pat in '' Postman Pat: The Movie'', Richard Pitt in '' Hang Ups'', Andrew in ''Bliss'' (2018), and Nathan Stern in '' The Split'' (2018–2022). As a stage actor, he was Tony-nominated for his portrayal of Norman in ''The Norman Conquests'' on Broadway. He starred as Bertie Wooster in ''Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense'' at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, which won the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. He co-presented the 2020 edition of '' Children In Need'' for the BBC. Early life and education Mangan was born in Ponders End, in Enfield, north London, to Irish parents. He has two sisters, Anita and Lisa. Mangan was educated at two independent schools, Lochinver House School for boys in Potters Bar, and Hail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scala Radio
Scala Radio is a classical music digital radio station in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by Bauer Radio since its launch in March 2019. The station broadcasts nationally on DAB via the Sound Digital multiplex and online through websites and apps, including the station's own. The station was the first national classical music service to launch on terrestrial radio in the UK since Classic FM in 1992. The station's playlist features 70% popular classics and 30% new and "surprising" music. Scala also aims for more speech content – or more "storytelling" – than Classic FM or BBC Radio 3. History On 22 December 2018, following the demise of his BBC Radio 2 drivetime showwhich had been co-hosted with Jo Whiley since May 2018Simon Mayo revealed that "...the new radio show will be announced in January. It will be startling." A month later, on 21 January 2019, Bauer Radio announced plans to launch a new national classical music service under the name Scala Radio from March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
