List of years in British radio (table)
In British television
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
In British music
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
+...

This is a list of events in British radio during 1978.

Events

January

  • No events.

February

  • No events.

March

April

May

June

  • No events.

July

  • 3 July
    • After just over a year of being broadcast in two parts, Today once again becomes a continuous two-hour programme. It now airs on BBC Radio 4 from 6.30am until just after 8.30am.
    • The radio play Pearl by John Arden is first performed.

August

September

  • No events.

October

  • No events.

Autumn

November

  • 12 November – Radio 1's Sunday teatime chart show is extended from a Top 20 countdown to a Top 40 countdown. Simon Bates is the presenter having taken over as host from Tom Browne earlier in the year.
  • 17 November – The Friday Rock Show, presented by Tommy Vance, makes its debut on BBC Radio 1.[5] Tommy remains the programme’s presenter until he moves to Virgin 1215 in April 1993.
  • 23 November –
    • All BBC national radio stations change their medium or long wave transmission wavelength as part of a plan for BBC AM broadcasting in order to improve national AM reception, and to conform with the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975.[6] Radio 1's transmission wavelength is moved from 247m (1214 kHz) to 275 & 285m (1053 & 1089 kHz) medium wave.[7] Radio 2's wavelength is moved from 1500m (200 kHz) long wave to 433 & 330m (693 & 909 kHz) medium wave. Radio 3 is moved from 464m (647 kHz) to 247m (1215 kHz) medium wave. Radio 4 is moved from various medium wavelengths to 1500m (200 kHz) long wave.
    • The shipping forecast transfers from BBC Radio 2 to BBC Radio 4 so that the forecast can continue to be broadcast on long wave.
    • The Radio 4 UK Theme is used for the first time to coincide with the network becoming a fully national service for the first time and to underline this the station officially becomes known as Radio 4 UK.
    • BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales launch as full time stations on the former Radio 4 Scottish and Welsh medium wave opt-out wavelengths of 370m (810 kHz) and 340m (882 kHz) respectively, albeit initially with very limited broadcast hours due to very limited coverage of Radio 4 on FM in both countries. The establishment of separate networks has been made possible by the transfer of Radio 4 to a fully UK-wide network on moving from medium wave to long wave.

December

  • 22 December – Industrial action at the BBC by the ABS union, which started the previous day, is extended to radio when the radio unions join their television counterparts and go on strike too, forcing the BBC to merge its four national radio networks from 4.00pm into one national radio station called the BBC All Network Radio Service. The strike is settled shortly before 10.00pm tonight with unions and BBC management reaching a pay agreement at the British government's industrial disputes arbitration service ACAS.[8][9][10][11]

Station debuts

Closing this year

Programme debuts

  • 26 December – The 27-Year Itch on BBC Radio 4 (1978–80)

Continuing radio programmes

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. "Significant events of 1978". The National Archives. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  2. "Budgets 1945 – 1979". BBC News.
  3. Roberts, Jem (2010). The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4070-8780-1.
  4. BBC Handbook 1978. British Broadcasting Corporation. 1977. p. 123. ISBN 9780563174769.
  5. BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 1 listings 17 November 1978
  6. "History of Radio Transmission in the UK" (PDF). Frequency Finder.
  7. "Radio 1 History – Transmitters". Radio Rewind. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  8. "Random radio jottings: BBC All Network Service". 30 May 2011.
  9. "Boggenstrovia's Bit: The Christmas that Nearly wasn't – the BBC Strike of December 1978 and Christmas Television of that year (2015 Update)". 27 December 2013.
  10. "You can't touch me, I'm part of the union – Politics – Transdiffusion Broadcasting System".
  11. "TV Cream". Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  12. Young, Andrew (7 November 1978). "Star line-up as Radio Scotland goes pop". The Glasgow Herald. p. 4. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  13. "Former Brains Trust chairman". The Glasgow Herald. Glasgow, Scotland, UK: Lonrho. 20 January 1978. p. 5. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  14. John A. Willis (1979). John Willis' Screen World. Crown. p. 234-5. ISBN 9780517538357.
  15. Colin Larkin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. Guinness Pub. p. 2833. ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3.
  16. "Tolchard Evans". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  17. The New York Times Biographical Service. University Microfilms. 1978. p. 329.
  18. Colin Larkin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. Guinness Pub. p. 3055. ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3.
  19. "Mr Victor Silvester: doyen of ballroom dancing" (obituary), The Times, London, 15 August 1978, p. 14.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.