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1995 in British radio

This is a list of events in British radio during 1995.

Events

January

  • As part of major changes on the network, older music (generally pre-1990 recordings) is largely removed from the Radio 1 daytime playlist.
  • Radio Harmony (Coventry) is rebranded as Kix 96 and changes frequency.

February

  • 14 February – Talk Radio UK becomes the last of three national commercial radio stations to go on air. It broadcasts on the mediumwave frequencies previously occupied by Radio 1.

March

  • No events.

April

  • 10 April – Virgin Radio starts broadcasting on FM in London. The station is a full simulcast of the national service apart from a 45-minute weekday early evening program. Consequently, at around this time, the national station is rebranded from Virgin 1215 to Virgin Radio.
  • 15 April – BBC Radio 3 launches a weekly music discussion programme called Private Passions.
  • 21 April – Steve Wright and Bruno Brookes present their final shows for BBC Radio 1. Both had been at the station for more than ten years.
  • 23 April – Following Bruno Brookes’s departure, Mark Goodier begins his second stint as presenter of the Sunday afternoon Top 40 show.
  • 24 April – Chris Evans takes over the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from Steve Wright.

May

  • May – BBC CWR closes as a stand-alone station and becomes an opt-out of BBC Radio WM.

June

  • 2–3 June – The BBC last uses the Paris Theatre in central London as a venue for recording and broadcasting radio comedy and music with a live audience.

July

  • The Radio Authority gives permission to GWR Group to begin programme networking across many of its FM stations. This landmark ruling begins the move by commercial radio companies in the UK to replace locally produced shows with networking.

August

  • Rather than merely broadcasting the usual mix of non-stop music and promos, Heart 106.2's test transmissions include live broadcasts of New York station WPLJ. The station launches on 5 September.

September

October

  • 9 October
  • BBC Radio 3 begins broadcasting an hour earlier on weekdays with breakfast show On Air extended from two hours to three hours.
  • Paul Gambaccini joins Radio 3 to present a new morning program called Morning Collection. Consequently, This Week's Composer moves to the later time of 12noon.
  • 21 October – Johnnie Walker ends his third and final stint at BBC Radio 1.

November

  • No events.

December

  • No events.

Undated

  • The roll-out of BBC Radio 1’s FM network is completed this year, eight years after the switching on of the station's first FM transmitter, and the station now has the same coverage on FM as the other BBC national stations. The completion sees the station revert back to being called Radio 1 on air, as opposed to Radio 1 FM, or even simply 1FM, which had been used since the start of the decade to promote the station's move to FM.

Station debuts

Programme debuts

Continuing radio programmes

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1970s

1980s

1990s

Ending this year

Closing this year

Births

Deaths

  • 7 January – Larry Grayson, 71, comedian and presenter (Late Night Larry)
  • 30 January – Gerald Durrell, 70, naturalist, zookeeper, author and broadcast presenter
  • 5 March – Vivian Stanshall, 51, comic singer-songwriter and broadcaster
  • 4 April – Kenny Everett, 50, radio disc jockey and broadcast entertainer
  • 16 April – Arthur English, 75, comedian
  • 18 August – Alan Dell, 71, BBC radio presenter
  • 4 November – Paul Eddington, 68, actor
  • 24 November – Stuart Henry, 54, DJ

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