This is a list of events in British radio during 1980.
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Events
editJanuary
edit- 2 January – BBC Radio 3 launches a new, extended teatime programme Mainly for Pleasure. The two-hour long programme replaces the much shorter Homeward Bound.[1]
- 13 January – Forces request programme Family Favourites is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for the final time.
February
edit- BBC Radio Wales launches the first of two permanent community opt-out stations, Radio Deeside, after successful community radio experiments in 1978. The reopening is in response to the closure of the Shotton steelworks.
March
edit- 19–20 March – MV Mi Amigo, the ship from which the pirate radio station Radio Caroline is broadcast, runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary.
- 31 March – BBC Radio 1's broadcast hours are cut back. The station starts broadcasting on weekdays an hour later and Saturday evening programming ends. The station simulcasts BBC Radio 2 during this additional downtime although by the end of the year Radio 1 has stopped broadcasting Radio 2 through the night.
April
edit- 11 April – CBC in Cardiff becomes the first of the second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations to start broadcasting. It is the first new ILR station since 1976.
May
edit- 30 May – The final edition of soap opera Waggoners' Walk is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
June
edit- No events.
July
edit- No events.
August
edit- No events.
September
edit- September – Due to the continued expansion of BBC Local Radio, the regional news bulletins, broadcast in England four times a day Monday to Saturday on BBC Radio 4, end, apart from in the south west which is the sole part of England which still does not have any BBC local service.
October
edit- 18 October – Radio Tay begins broadcasting to the Dundee area from the Angus transmitter.
November
editDecember
edit- 1 December – BBC Scotland carries out a one-week experiment in breakfast television. It is a simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland's breakfast show Good Morning Scotland.[2]
- 6 December – Andy Peebles records an in-depth interview with John Lennon in New York City for BBC Radio 1, two days before Lennon's murder.
Undated
edit- Autumn – Land-based pirate radio station Dread Broadcasting Corporation begins to air from West London as Britain's first black music "pirate" station.[3]
Station debuts
edit- February – BBC Radio Deeside
- 11 April – CBC (Cardiff Broadcasting Company)
- 23 May – Mercia Sound
- 10 July – Hereward Radio
- 11 September – BBC Radio Norfolk
- 15 September – 2CR (Two Counties Radio)
- Autumn – Dread Broadcasting Corporation
- 17 October – Radio Tay
- 23 October – Severn Sound
- 7 November – DevonAir Radio
- 11 November – BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Programme debuts
edit- 8 April – Radio Active on BBC Radio 4 (1980–1987)
- 25 November – Hordes of the Things on BBC Radio 4 (1980)
Continuing radio programmes
edit1940s
edit- 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
edit- The Archers (1950–Present)
- The Today Programme (1957–Present)
- Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)
1960s
edit- 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
edit- 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)
Ending this year
edit- 13 January – Family Favourites (1945–1980)
- 30 May – Waggoners' Walk (1969–1980)
- 15 November – The Burkiss Way (1976–1980)
Closing this year
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Births
edit- 6 February – Tom Ravenscroft, radio DJ
- 28 February – Katy Wix, Welsh comedy actress
- 7 May – Kate Lawler, reality TV personality, DJ and model
- 3 June – Rickie Haywood-Williams, radio DJ and TV presenter
- 4 June –
- Nii Odartei Evans, radio announcer and voice actor
- Danielle Perry, radio presenter and musician
- 30 July – Melvin Odoom, radio DJ and TV presenter/comedian
- 3 November – Elis James, Welsh comedian
- Unknown –
- Sara Mohr-Pietsch, classical music presenter
- Helen Zaltzman, podcaster, broadcaster and scriptwriter
Deaths
edit- 9 February – Renée Houston, actress (The Clitheroe Kid) (born 1902)[4]
- 26 April – Dame Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Discord in Three Flats) (born 1893)
- 23 June – John Laurie, actor (The Man Born to Be King) (born 1897)
- 24 July – Peter Sellers, actor, comedian and radio personality (born 1925)
- 22 August – Norman Shelley, actor (born 1903)
- 6 October – Hattie Jacques, actress (Educating Archie, Hancock's Half Hour) (born 1922)[5]
- 19 October – D. G. Bridson, radio producer and author (born 1910)[6]
- 20 October – Isobel Barnett, broadcasting personality (born 1918; suicide)
- 8 December – Charles Parker, documentary producer (born 1919)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ BBC Genome Project – Radio 3 listings 2 January 1980
- ^ BBC Genome Project BBC1 Scotland listings 1 December 1980
- ^ Dennis, Tony (23 October 1981). "Black Pirates in the Grove". Time Out. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ John Parker. Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 746.
- ^ Merriman, Andy (2007). Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques. London: Aurum Press. pp. 205–8. ISBN 978-1-84513-257-6.
- ^ The Listener. British Broadcasting Corporation. July 1980. p. 615.