1987 in British radio

none October 2023 1987 British radio British television British music This is a list of events in British radio during 1987. Events January 1 January – At midday, a new transmitter for Radio 210 is switched on. this occurs after the Independent Broadcasting Authority expands the stations's licence area to broadcast across Berkshire and north Hampshire.IBA Engineering Announcements 23 December 1986. 3 January – BBC Radio 4’s Today programme launches a Saturday edition. The Saturday programme begins at 7 am, 30 minutes later than the weekday editions. early January – Sport bulletins are broadcast on BBC Radio 2 at breakfast for the first time. Previously, apart from a racing bulletin, sports news did not commence until lunchtime. 17 January – Johnnie Walker returns to BBC Radio 1 to present a new Saturday afternoon programme The Stereo Sequence. The programme, which runs for 5½ 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 3 March – Radio Trent's broadcast area expands when it starts broadcasting to Derbyshire. May 18 May – The Yorkshire Radio Network launches. It is a networked service of evening and overnight programming, broadcast on three commercial radio stations in Yorkshire – Pennine Radio in Bradford, Viking Radio in Hull and Radio Hallam in Sheffield – providing programming every night between 8 pm (slightly earlier at weekends) and 6 am. 22 May – GWR's broadcast area expands when it launches in Bath. July July – The European-wide re-organisation of band 2 of the VHF band comes into effect. It allows the full broadcasting spectrum to be available for broadcasting. 14 July – Beacon Radio's broadcast area is increased when it starts to broadcast to Shrewsbury and Telford. 17 July – John Timpson chairs Any Questions? for the final time. 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 7 pm and 9 pm. Capital London is relaunched with a contemporary hit radio format.Stoller Tony Sounds Of Our Life: The Story of Independent Radio in the UK John Libbey Publishing Ltd Jenni Murray becomes a regular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour presenter.Mark Brown 'A tremendous legacy': Jenni Murray ends her tenure on BBC's Woman's Hour The Guardian London 2020-10-01 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/oct/01/tremendous-legacy-jenni-murray-ends-tenure-bbcs-woman-hour 2024-11-29 October 1 October – Territorial Sea Act (passed 15 May) comes into effect, extending UK territorial waters to 12 nautical miles,https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/49/body/enacted Territorial Sea Act 1987 Statutelaw.gov.uk 2023-04-14 further restricting offshore pirate radio in the United Kingdom. 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. 5 October – Manx Radio completes a deal with United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) which sees UCB broadcast via Manx Radio for an hour on Sunday evenings on Manx Radio's AM transmitter.http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/UCB_Cross_Rhythms__A_marriage_made_in_heaven/40689/p1/ UCB Cross Rhythms: A marriage made in heaven 24 April 2022 17 June 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130617001644/http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/UCB_Cross_Rhythms__A_marriage_made_in_heaven/40689/p1/ deadhttp://ucb.cmhosts.net/index.cfm?itemid=2301&sectionid=2 Untitled Document 2013-02-10 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140303080838/http://ucb.cmhosts.net/index.cfm?itemid=2301&sectionid=2 3 March 2014 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.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8c3dca241be84a6795dcc318b06f1f1a Citizens – BBC Radio 4 FM – 27 October 1987 – BBC Genome genome.ch.bbc.co.uk 4 November 2018 31 October – BBC Radio 1 begins launching its FM frequency starting in London. http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/transmitter.htm Radio 1 History – Transmitters Radio Rewind 18 February 2010 November 6–8 November – Radio 1 hosts a Birthday Weekender at Pontins Prestatyn in North Wales to mark its 20th anniversary. The event features various DJs presenting their programme from the venue across the weekendBBC official Schedule for BBC Birthday Weekender, 6–8 Nov 1987, Prestatyn Pontins https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_radio_one/1987-11-08 2023-05-11 genome.ch.bbc.co.ukBBC Programme Index – Radio 1 listings 6 November 1987 The event concludes with a special live performance by The CommunardsBBC Programme Index BBC Radio 1 8 November 1987 8 November – Bruno Brookes reveals the 600th UK No. 1 single on the Radio 1 Chart Show as "China in Your Hand" by T'Pau. To mark the musical milestone, over the next three weeks Radio 1 plays all 600 singles to have reached number one since the UK Singles Chart was launched in 1952. 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. Unknown Late in year – Downtown Radio begins broadcasting to the Enniskillen and Omagh areas of Northern Ireland and to coincide with its expanded broadcast area, the station briefly rebrands itself as 'DTRFM'. Station debuts September – BBC 648 (1987–2011) Programme debuts 20 April – Flying the Flag on BBC Radio 4 (1987–1992) 27 October – Citizens on BBC Radio 4 (1987–1991) October – Could Do Better on BBC Radio 4 (1987) 7 November – Up the Garden Path on BBC Radio 4 (1987–1993) 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) Sing Something Simple (1959–2001) Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007) 1960s Farming Today (1960–Present) In Touch (1961–Present) 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) Kaleidoscope (1973–1998) Newsbeat (1973–Present) The News Huddlines (1975–2001) File on 4 (1977–Present) Money Box (1977–Present) The News Quiz (1977–Present) Breakaway (1979–1998) Feedback (1979–Present) The Food Programme (1979–Present) Science in Action (1979–Present) 1980s In Business (1983–Present) Sounds of the 60s (1983–Present) After Henry (1985–1989) Loose Ends (1986–Present) Ending this year 17 October – Radio Active (1980–1987) Unknown – Delve Special (1984–1987) Births 30 January – Phil Lester, YouTuber and radio presenter 4 June – Mollie King, pop singer-songwriter and broadcast presenter 14 July – Danny Howard, dance music DJ Deaths 4 February – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Welsh news broadcaster (b. 1908) 6 September – Sir William Haley, Director-General of the BBC, 1944–1952 (b. 1901) 9 September – Al Read, comic (b. 1909) 1 October – Douglas Cleverdon, radio producer (b. 1903) Janet Quigley, radio executive (b. 1902) See also 1987 in British music 1987 in British television 1987 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1987 References Radio British Radio, 1987 In Category:Years in British radio