1978 in British radio: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
This is Paul (talk | contribs) ce |
→Deaths: addition |
||
| (8 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Use dmy dates}} |
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} |
||
{{Year nav topic5|1978|British radio|British television|British music}} |
{{Year nav topic5|1978|British radio|British television|British music}} |
||
This is a list of events in British radio during 1978. |
This is a list of events in British radio during 1978. |
||
| Line 48: | Line 48: | ||
*12 November – [[BBC Radio 1|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 (broadcaster)|Tom Browne]] earlier in the year. |
*12 November – [[BBC Radio 1|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 (broadcaster)|Tom Browne]] earlier in the year. |
||
*17 November – ''[[The Friday Rock Show]]'', presented by [[Tommy Vance]], makes its debut on [[BBC Radio 1]].<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/radio1/england/1978-11-17 BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 1 listings 17 November 1978]</ref> Tommy remains the programme’s presenter until he moves to [[Virgin 1215]] in April 1993. |
*17 November – ''[[The Friday Rock Show]]'', presented by [[Tommy Vance]], makes its debut on [[BBC Radio 1]].<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/radio1/england/1978-11-17 BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 1 listings 17 November 1978]</ref> Tommy remains the programme’s presenter until he moves to [[Virgin 1215]] in April 1993. |
||
*23 November |
*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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frequencyfinder.org.uk/History_Transmission.pdf|title = History of Radio Transmission in the UK|publisher= Frequency Finder}}</ref> [[BBC Radio 1|Radio 1]]'s transmission wavelength is moved from 247m (1214 kHz) to 275 & 285m (1053 & 1089 kHz) medium wave.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/transmitter.htm|title= Radio 1 History – Transmitters|publisher= Radio Rewind|accessdate= 18 February 2010}}</ref> [[BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]]'s wavelength is moved from 1500m (200 kHz) long wave to 433 & 330m (693 & 909 kHz) medium wave. [[BBC Radio 3|Radio 3]] is moved from 464m (647 kHz) to 247m (1215 kHz) medium wave. [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] is moved from various medium wavelengths to 1500m (200 kHz) long wave. |
** 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frequencyfinder.org.uk/History_Transmission.pdf|title = History of Radio Transmission in the UK|publisher= Frequency Finder}}</ref> [[BBC Radio 1|Radio 1]]'s transmission wavelength is moved from 247m (1214 kHz) to 275 & 285m (1053 & 1089 kHz) medium wave.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/transmitter.htm|title= Radio 1 History – Transmitters|publisher= Radio Rewind|accessdate= 18 February 2010}}</ref> [[BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]]'s wavelength is moved from 1500m (200 kHz) long wave to 433 & 330m (693 & 909 kHz) medium wave. [[BBC Radio 3|Radio 3]] is moved from 464m (647 kHz) to 247m (1215 kHz) medium wave. [[BBC Radio 4|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 [[shipping forecast]] transfers from [[BBC Radio 2]] to [[BBC Radio 4]] so that the forecast can continue to be broadcast on [[long wave]]. |
||
| Line 56: | Line 56: | ||
===December=== |
===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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2011/05/bbc-all-network-service.html|title=Random radio jottings: BBC All Network Service|date=30 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://boggenstrovia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-christmas-that-nearly-wasnt-bbc.html|title = Boggenstrovia's Bit: The Christmas that Nearly wasn't – the BBC Strike of December 1978 and Christmas Television of that year (2015 Update)|date = 27 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.transdiffusion.org/2004/06/01/union|title = You can't touch me, I'm part of the union – Politics – Transdiffusion Broadcasting System}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tv.cream.org/extras/strike.htm|title=TV Cream|access-date=2018-09-06|archive-date=2013-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106183921/http://tv.cream.org/extras/strike.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
*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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2011/05/bbc-all-network-service.html|title=Random radio jottings: BBC All Network Service|date=30 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://boggenstrovia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-christmas-that-nearly-wasnt-bbc.html|title = Boggenstrovia's Bit: The Christmas that Nearly wasn't – the BBC Strike of December 1978 and Christmas Television of that year (2015 Update)|date = 27 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.transdiffusion.org/2004/06/01/union|title = You can't touch me, I'm part of the union – Politics – Transdiffusion Broadcasting System}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tv.cream.org/extras/strike.htm|title=TV Cream|access-date=2018-09-06|archive-date=2013-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106183921/http://tv.cream.org/extras/strike.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
||
===Undated=== |
|||
*[[BBC World Service]] begins to use the [[Orfordness transmitting station]] on the east coast of England for night-time broadcasts on 1296 kHz in Eastern European languages. |
|||
==Station debuts== |
==Station debuts== |
||
*13 November – [[BBC Radio Wales]] |
*13 November – [[BBC Radio Wales]] |
||
*23 November – [[BBC Radio Scotland]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3gI-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=dUkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4430%2C1368831 |title=Star line-up as Radio Scotland goes pop |first=Andrew |last=Young |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |page=4 |date=7 November 1978 |accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref> |
*23 November – [[BBC Radio Scotland]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3gI-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=dUkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4430%2C1368831 |title=Star line-up as Radio Scotland goes pop |first=Andrew |last=Young |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |page=4 |date=7 November 1978 |accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref> |
||
| ⚫ | |||
| ⚫ | |||
==Programme debuts== |
==Programme debuts== |
||
| Line 110: | Line 110: | ||
==Ending this year== |
==Ending this year== |
||
* 30 June – ''[[Up to the Hour]]'' (1977–1978) |
* 30 June – ''[[Up to the Hour]]'' (1977–1978) |
||
| ⚫ | |||
| ⚫ | |||
==Births== |
==Births== |
||
| Line 117: | Line 120: | ||
* 18 July – [[Annie Mac]](Manus), Irish-born DJ |
* 18 July – [[Annie Mac]](Manus), Irish-born DJ |
||
* 22 July – [[Martyn Lee (broadcaster)|Martyn Lee]], radio host and producer |
* 22 July – [[Martyn Lee (broadcaster)|Martyn Lee]], radio host and producer |
||
* 11 August – [[Isy Suttie]], comedian |
|||
* 6 December – [[Rigsy]], Northern Ireland broadcast presenter and DJ |
* 6 December – [[Rigsy]], Northern Ireland broadcast presenter and DJ |
||
| Line 125: | Line 129: | ||
| publisher = Lonrho | date = 20 January 1978 |
| publisher = Lonrho | date = 20 January 1978 |
||
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19780120&id=To5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=16QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4561,3449592&hl=en | accessdate = 28 September 2015 }}</ref> |
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19780120&id=To5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=16QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4561,3449592&hl=en | accessdate = 28 September 2015 }}</ref> |
||
*26 January – [[Leo Genn]], 72, actor<ref>{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=John Willis' Screen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7EQZAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Crown| |
*26 January – [[Leo Genn]], 72, actor<ref>{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=John Willis' Screen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7EQZAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Crown|pages=234–5|isbn=9780517538357}}</ref> |
||
*24 February – [[Mrs Mills]], 59, pianist (heart attack)<ref>{{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlsRAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Guinness Pub.|isbn=978-1-56159-176-3|page=2833}}</ref> |
*24 February – [[Mrs Mills]], 59, pianist (heart attack)<ref>{{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlsRAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Guinness Pub.|isbn=978-1-56159-176-3|page=2833}}</ref> |
||
*12 March – [[Tolchard Evans]], 76, songwriter, composer, pianist and bandleader<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/66/101066776/|title=Tolchard Evans|publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|accessdate=27 September 2014 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> |
*12 March – [[Tolchard Evans]], 76, songwriter, composer, pianist and bandleader<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/66/101066776/|title=Tolchard Evans|publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|accessdate=27 September 2014 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> |
||
| Line 134: | Line 138: | ||
*31 July – [[Carleton Hobbs]], 80, actor |
*31 July – [[Carleton Hobbs]], 80, actor |
||
*14 August – [[Victor Silvester]], 78, bandleader<ref>"Mr Victor Silvester: doyen of ballroom dancing" (obituary), ''The Times'', London, 15 August 1978, p. 14.</ref> |
*14 August – [[Victor Silvester]], 78, bandleader<ref>"Mr Victor Silvester: doyen of ballroom dancing" (obituary), ''The Times'', London, 15 August 1978, p. 14.</ref> |
||
*18 August – [[Doris Waters]], 78, comedy performer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voices-of-variety.com/elsie-and-doris-waters/|first=Stephen|last=Dixon|title=Elsie and Doris Waters|website=Voices of Variety|year=2013|accessdate=2024-08-21}}</ref> |
|||
*15 December – [[Edgar Lustgarten]], 71, broadcaster specialising in true crime |
|||
==See also== |
==See also== |
||
Latest revision as of 14:20, 21 August 2024
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
This is a list of events in British radio during 1978.
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- No events.
February
[edit]- No events.
March
[edit]- 8 March – The first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – the radio series later to be turned into a book, a television programme, a game, and a film – is broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
- 26 March – Tom Browne presents BBC Radio 1's Top 20 show for the final time.
April
[edit]- 1 April – BBC Radio 2's broadcasting hours are extended when budget restrictions are eased, and the pre 1975 broadcasting hours of 5 am – 2 am are re-introduced.
- 2 April – Simon Bates replaces Tom Browne on BBC Radio 1's Top 20 show.
- 3 April – Permanent radio broadcasts of proceedings in the House of Commons begin;[1] George Thomas is the Speaker.
- 11 April – Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presents the first budget to the House of Commons to be heard on the radio.[2]
- 29 April – Noel Edmonds presents his final Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
May
[edit]- 2 May – Dave Lee Travis succeeds Noel Edmonds as presenter of The Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
June
[edit]- No events.
July
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 22 August – The opening episode of the sixth series of BBC Radio 4's comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue introduces the pseudo-game "Mornington Crescent".[3]
September
[edit]- No events.
October
[edit]- No events.
Autumn
[edit]- Ahead of the launch of BBC Radio Wales, four experimental local radio stations broadcasting for a single week take place. They are Radio Wrexham, Radio Deeside, Radio Merthyr and Radio Rhondda.[4]
November
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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]
Undated
[edit]- BBC World Service begins to use the Orfordness transmitting station on the east coast of England for night-time broadcasts on 1296 kHz in Eastern European languages.
Station debuts
[edit]- 13 November – BBC Radio Wales
- 23 November – BBC Radio Scotland[12]
Programme debuts
[edit]- 26 December – The 27-Year Itch on BBC Radio 4 (1978–80)
Continuing radio programmes
[edit]1940s
[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)
- Petticoat Line (1965–1979)
- 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)
- Hello Cheeky (1973–1979)
- Kaleidoscope (1973–1998)
- Newsbeat (1973–Present)
- The News Huddlines (1975–2001)
- The Burkiss Way (1976–1980)
- File on 4 (1977–Present)
- Money Box (1977–Present)
- The News Quiz (1977–Present)
Ending this year
[edit]- 30 June – Up to the Hour (1977–1978)
Closing this year
[edit]![[icon]](/enwiki/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (March 2013) |
Births
[edit]- 21 January – Rachael Bland, journalist, newsreader and presenter (BBC Radio 5 Live) (d. 2018)
- 6 April – Myleene Klass, singer and broadcast presenter
- 28 April – Lauren Laverne, radio and television presenter
- 18 July – Annie Mac(Manus), Irish-born DJ
- 22 July – Martyn Lee, radio host and producer
- 11 August – Isy Suttie, comedian
- 6 December – Rigsy, Northern Ireland broadcast presenter and DJ
Deaths
[edit]- 15 January – Jack Jackson, 71, trumpeter, bandleader and disc jockey
- 19 January – Donald McCullough, 76, broadcaster (The Brains Trust)[13]
- 26 January – Leo Genn, 72, actor[14]
- 24 February – Mrs Mills, 59, pianist (heart attack)[15]
- 12 March – Tolchard Evans, 76, songwriter, composer, pianist and bandleader[16]
- 25 March – Jack Hulbert, 85, actor (Discord in Three Flats)[17]
- 25 March – Thomas Woodrooffe, 79, naval officer and radio commentator
- 27 March – Wilfred Pickles, 73, radio presenter
- 2 April – Ray Noble, 74, bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor[18]
- 31 July – Carleton Hobbs, 80, actor
- 14 August – Victor Silvester, 78, bandleader[19]
- 18 August – Doris Waters, 78, comedy performer[20]
- 15 December – Edgar Lustgarten, 71, broadcaster specialising in true crime
See also
[edit]- 1978 in British music
- 1978 in British television
- 1978 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1978
References
[edit]- ^ "Significant events of 1978". The National Archives. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
- ^ "Budgets 1945 – 1979". BBC News.
- ^ 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.
- ^ BBC Handbook 1978. British Broadcasting Corporation. 1977. p. 123. ISBN 9780563174769.
- ^ BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 1 listings 17 November 1978
- ^ "History of Radio Transmission in the UK" (PDF). Frequency Finder.
- ^ "Radio 1 History – Transmitters". Radio Rewind. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ^ "Random radio jottings: BBC All Network Service". 30 May 2011.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "You can't touch me, I'm part of the union – Politics – Transdiffusion Broadcasting System".
- ^ "TV Cream". Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ Young, Andrew (7 November 1978). "Star line-up as Radio Scotland goes pop". The Glasgow Herald. p. 4. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Former Brains Trust chairman". The Glasgow Herald. Glasgow, Scotland, UK: Lonrho. 20 January 1978. p. 5. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ^ John A. Willis (1979). John Willis' Screen World. Crown. pp. 234–5. ISBN 9780517538357.
- ^ Colin Larkin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. Guinness Pub. p. 2833. ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3.
- ^ "Tolchard Evans". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. University Microfilms. 1978. p. 329.
- ^ Colin Larkin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. Guinness Pub. p. 3055. ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3.
- ^ "Mr Victor Silvester: doyen of ballroom dancing" (obituary), The Times, London, 15 August 1978, p. 14.
- ^ Dixon, Stephen (2013). "Elsie and Doris Waters". Voices of Variety. Retrieved 21 August 2024.