1985 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1985.
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Events
January
- 7 January – Ken Bruce takes over The Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Terry Wogan and David Jacobs moves from the Sunday morning host of Melodies for You to start a new weekday lunchtime programme consisting mainly of tracks from musical theatre called My Kind of Music.[1][2]
February
- 4 February – After broadcasting off and on since 1969, Radio Jackie's time as a pirate station ends. It returns 18 years later as a legal station, broadcasting to the same area of south west London that it had served as a pirate.
- 13 February – Financial difficulties force South Wales station Gwent Broadcasting to close down after less than two years on air.[3]
March
- 31 March – Ranking Miss P becomes BBC Radio 1's first regular black female DJ when she begins presenting the station's first reggae programme. This is not her first appearance on the station, however, as she has been sitting in for other presenters for the past year.
April
- April – Following the closure of Gwent Broadcasting, CBC expands its broadcast area to cover the Newport area of South Wales.
May
- No events.
June
- 29 June – BBC Radio's adult educational strand Study on 4 is renamed Options with all programming broadcast on weekend afternoons on BBC Radio 4's FM frequencies only.[4]
July
- 13 July – BBC Radio 1 broadcasts full, live coverage of the Live Aid pop concerts in stereo.
August
- During the 1985 school summer holidays, BBC Radio 4 broadcasts an all-morning children's programme called Pirate Radio 4 on Thursday mornings. Three editions of the programme are aired. It is broadcast on VHF/FM only with the usual Radio 4 schedule continuing on long wave.
September
- 9 September – Following Wiltshire Radio's purchase of Radio West, Radio West closes at just after midnight.
- 28 September – A Little Night Music is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for the first time. Airing daily between 3am and 4am, it replaces repeats of programmes previous broadcast on Radio 2. Instead of having a regular or named host, the programme is presented by that night's newsreader.
October
- 1 October –
- BBC Radio nan Gàidheal launches, replacing the Gaelic service BBC Radio nan Eilean which covered north west Scotland and the Gaelic programming on BBC Radio Highland.[5]
- Radio Hallam's broadcast area is expanded when the Sheffield-based station starts broadcasting across all of South Yorkshire.
- Following its purchase of Radio West, new owners Wiltshire Radio merge Radio West and Wiltshire Radio and launch a new 24-hour station, GWR FM with split programming for the two areas at breakfast and mid-morning.
- 14 October – CBC is relaunched as Red Dragon Radio. The station also covers the Newport area, offering a replacement service to Gwent Broadcasting and provides separate breakfast shows for Cardiff and Newport until the early 1990s.[6]
- October – Plymouth Sound launches an opt-out service for Tavistock. The service operates on weekday breakfast and drive time and weekend mid-mornings.
- October – Kiss makes its first broadcasts as a pirate station.
November
- No events.
December
- No events.
Unknown
- Due to general difficulties within the commercial radio industry, Hereward Radio withdraws from Northamptonshire and the Independent Broadcasting Authority assigns the Independent Local Radio franchise to a new company, Northants Radio Ltd, owned by Chiltern Radio Group.
Station debuts
- 23 April – BBC Radio Shropshire
- 24 June – BBC Radio Bedfordshire
- 1 October –
Changes of station frequency
| Station | Area | Moved from | Moved to |
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| Essex Radio | Chelmsford | 96.4FM | 102.6FM |
| Essex Radio | Southend | 95.3FM | 96.3FM |
| Saxon Radio | Bury St Edmunds | 96.3FM | 96.4FM |
| Invicta Sound | Canterbury | 95.1FM | 102.8FM |
| Invicta Sound | Maidstone & Medway | 103.6FM | 102.7FM |
| Pennine Radio | Huddersfield & Halifax | 103.4FM | 102.5FM |
| BBC Radio Sussex | East Sussex | 103.1FM | 104.5FM |
| BBC Radio Sussex | Reigate and Crawley | 102.7FM | 104.0FM |
Closing this year
- 13 February – Gwent Broadcasting (1983–1985)
- 9 September – Radio West (1981–1985)
- September – Wiltshire Radio (1982–1985)
Programme debuts
- 17 April – After Henry on BBC Radio 4 (1985–1989)
- 25 July – Pirate Radio Four on BBC Radio 4 (1985–1986)
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)
- 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
- Radio Active (1980–1987)
- In Business (1983–Present)
- Sounds of the 60s (1983–Present)
- Delve Special (1984–1987)
Births
- 5 February – Emma Barnett, broadcast presenter and journalist
- 22 February – Toddla T (Thomas Bell), DJ
- 19 March – Gemma Cairney, radio presenter and fashion stylist
- 17 December – Greg James, DJ
- 27 December – Matt Edmondson, broadcast music presenter
- DJ Q (Shollen Quarshie), DJ
Deaths
- 9 May – Reginald Dixon, 80, theatre organist
- 28 May – Roy Plomley, 71, creator and presenter of Desert Island Discs
- 24 June – Valentine Dyall, 77, character actor
- 6 November – Hans Keller, 66, musicologist
- 23 November – Leslie Mitchell, 80, announcer
See also
References
- "BBC Radio 2 – 7 January 1985 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- BBC Genome Project – BBC Radio 2 listings 7 January 1985
- IBA Engineering Announcements 19 February 1985
- BBC Genome Project – Radio 4 listings 29 June 1985.
- Koch, John T. "Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia". ABC-CLIO Ltd, 2006. pp. 1265 – retrieved 22 August 2011
- A Guide to Stations Off the Air, RadioNow.
- IBA Engineering Announcements 25 June 1985
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