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**Comedian [[Jack Whitehall]] appears as a guest on ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', where he expresses regret over a joke he made about [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth]] and [[Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] during the 2012 edition of [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[The Big Fat Quiz of the Year]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42935329 |title=Comedian Jack Whitehall 'regrets lewd Queen joke' |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=4 February 2018 |accessdate=4 February 2018}}</ref> |
**Comedian [[Jack Whitehall]] appears as a guest on ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', where he expresses regret over a joke he made about [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth]] and [[Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] during the 2012 edition of [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[The Big Fat Quiz of the Year]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42935329 |title=Comedian Jack Whitehall 'regrets lewd Queen joke' |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=4 February 2018 |accessdate=4 February 2018}}</ref> |
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*6 February – [[Noel Edmonds]] has set up an online radio station, Positively Noel, dedicated to broadcasting negative messages about [[Lloyds Bank]], a company with which the presenter has been involved in a decade-long legal dispute.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42963128 |title=Noel Edmonds takes on Lloyds Bank with new radio station |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=6 February 2018 |accessdate=6 February 2018}}</ref> |
*6 February – [[Noel Edmonds]] has set up an online radio station, Positively Noel, dedicated to broadcasting negative messages about [[Lloyds Bank]], a company with which the presenter has been involved in a decade-long legal dispute.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42963128 |title=Noel Edmonds takes on Lloyds Bank with new radio station |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=6 February 2018 |accessdate=6 February 2018}}</ref> |
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*7 February – Figures from [[RAJAR]] indicate that ''[[The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw]]'' has shown some recovery from its worst ever audience during the third quarter of |
*7 February – Figures from [[RAJAR]] indicate that ''[[The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw]]'' has shown some recovery from its worst ever audience during the third quarter of 2017. The number of listeners to the show increased from 4.93m listeners in the third quarter of 2017 to 5.72m listeners in January 2018, an increase of almost 800,000.<ref>{{cite news|last=Silverstein |first=Adam |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a849461/nick-grimshaw-radio-1-breakfast-show-ratings/ |title=Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 Breakfast Show surges to best ratings in two years |publisher=Digital Spy |date=7 February 2018 |accessdate=9 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Roisin |last=O'Connor |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/bbc-radio-1-nick-grimshaw-breakfast-show-listening-figures-increase-chris-evans-today-programme-a8200096.html |title=Nick Grimshaw bounces back with 800,000 extra listeners on Radio 1 show |publisher=Independent Print Limited |newspaper=The Independent |date=8 February 2018 |accessdate=9 February 2018}}</ref> |
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*16 February – Speaking to [[BBC 6 Music]] [[Glastonbury Festival]] organiser [[Emily Eavis]] says she would like to ban plastic bottles from next year's festival.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-43088751 |title=Glastonbury Festival plans plastic bottle ban |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=16 February 2018 |accessdate=18 February 2018}}</ref> |
*16 February – Speaking to [[BBC 6 Music]] [[Glastonbury Festival]] organiser [[Emily Eavis]] says she would like to ban plastic bottles from next year's festival.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-43088751 |title=Glastonbury Festival plans plastic bottle ban |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=16 February 2018 |accessdate=18 February 2018}}</ref> |
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This is a list of events taking place in 2018 relating to Radio in the United Kingdom.
Events
January
- 8 January – Matt Hancock is appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in a Cabinet reshuffle, replacing Karen Bradley.[1][2]
- 9 January – Winifred Robinson, the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's You and Yours, is taken off air after posting her views concerning the BBC gender pay gap controversy on Twitter the previous day.[3]
- 10 January – BBC Radio 2 announces a major overhaul of its schedule that will take effect from 14 May. Among the changes will be the start of a three-hour joint drivetime show presented by Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley, and a new weekday overnight show presented by O. J. Borg. Some long-running programmes, such as The Organist Entertains will come to an end, and Paul Jones will leave the network after presenting a blues programme for three decades; he will be succeeded by Cerys Matthews.[4]
- 12 January – The BBC is reported to be "deeply unimpressed" by an off-air conversation between John Humphrys and Jon Sopel in which they joked about the gender pay gap controversy. The conversation is said to have occurred before the 8 January edition of the Today programme, the morning after the BBC's China correspondent, Carrie Gracie resigned from her post over the issue of gender pay.[5]
- 15 January – The MW transmissions of BBC Radios Sussex, Surrey, Humberside, Wiltshire, Nottingham, Kent and Lincolnshire are switched off and MW coverage for BBC Devon, Lancashire and Essex is reduced.[6]
- 17 January – BBC Radio 1 announces an overhaul of its schedule from 24 February. The changes will see Maya Jama and Jordan North joining the network as weekend presenters, fronting the Greatest Hits programme, while current presenter Matt Edmondson will present a weekday afternoon show on which he will be joined by a different guest co-presenter each week. Current afternoon presenter Alice Levine will move to weekend breakfasts to co-present with Dev.[7]
- 23 January – The BBC confirms that Aled Jones will return to his presenting roles on BBC One's Songs of Praise and BBC Radio Wales after he was suspended in October 2017.[8]
- 26 January – Six of the BBC's leading male presenters—Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell, John Humphrys, Jon Sopel, Nick Robinson and Jeremy Vine—have agreed to take pay cuts following the recent controversy over equal salaries at the broadcaster.[9]
- 28 January – After nearly 78 years on air, The Sunday Hour is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for the final time.[10]
February
- 4 February –
- Relaunch of the BBC Radio 2 religion-themed magazine programme Good Morning Sunday, presented by Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad.[10]
- Comedian Jack Whitehall appears as a guest on Desert Island Discs, where he expresses regret over a joke he made about Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip during the 2012 edition of Channel 4's The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.[11]
- 6 February – Noel Edmonds has set up an online radio station, Positively Noel, dedicated to broadcasting negative messages about Lloyds Bank, a company with which the presenter has been involved in a decade-long legal dispute.[12]
- 7 February – Figures from RAJAR indicate that The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw has shown some recovery from its worst ever audience during the third quarter of 2017. The number of listeners to the show increased from 4.93m listeners in the third quarter of 2017 to 5.72m listeners in January 2018, an increase of almost 800,000.[13][14]
- 16 February – Speaking to BBC 6 Music Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis says she would like to ban plastic bottles from next year's festival.[15]
March
- 1 March – Global Radio holds its inaugural awards ceremony, the Global Awards at London's Hammersmith Eventim Apollo.[16][17]
- 5 March – Cumbrian stations The Bay and Lakeland Radio are relaunched as Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria and Smooth Lake District respectfully[18] following Global's purchase of the two stations from CN Group.[19]
- 7 March – BBC Radio 2 announces that Nick Drake will be inducted into its Folk Hall of Fame to mark what would have been the singer's 70th birthday.[20]
- 16 March – Radio 2 travel presenter Lynn Bowles, who has been with the station since 2000, tells listeners she is leaving at Easter.[21]
Station debuts
Programme debuts
Continuing programmes
1940s
- Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
- Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
- A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)
1950s
- The Archers (1950–Present)
- The Today Programme (1957–Present)
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)
1970s
- PM (1970–Present)
- Start the Week (1970–Present)
- You and Yours (1970–Present)
- I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (1972–Present)
- Good Morning Scotland (1973–Present)
- Newsbeat (1973–Present)
- File on 4 (1977–Present)
- Money Box (1977–Present)
- The News Quiz (1977–Present)
- Feedback (1979–Present)
- The Food Programme (1979–Present)
- Science in Action (1979–Present)
1980s
- In Business (1983–Present)
- Sounds of the 60s (1983–Present)
- Loose Ends (1986–Present)
1990s
- The Moral Maze (1990–Present)
- Essential Selection (1991–Present)
- Essential Mix (1993–Present)
- Up All Night (1994–Present)
- Wake Up to Money (1994–Present)
- Private Passions (1995–Present)
- In Our Time (1998–Present)
- Material World (1998–Present)
- Scott Mills (1998–Present)
- The Now Show (1998–Present)
- Steve Wright in the Afternoon (1981–1993, 1999–Present)
2000s
- BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2000–Present)
- Big John @ Breakfast (2000–Present)
- Kermode and Mayo's Film Review (2001–Present)
- A Kist o Wurds (2002–Present)
- Fighting Talk (2003–Present)
- Jeremy Vine (2003–Present)
- Annie Mac (2004–Present)
- Elaine Paige on Sunday (2004–Present)
- The Bottom Line (2006–Present)
- The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show (2006–Present)
- The Unbelievable Truth (2006–Present)
- Radcliffe & Maconie (2007–Present)
- The Media Show (2008–Present)
- Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s (2009–Present)
- Newsjack (2009–Present)
- Paul O'Grady on the Wireless (2009–Present)
2010s
- The Chris Evans Breakfast Show (2010–Present)
- Graham Norton (2010–Present)
- Simon Mayo Drivetime (2010–Present)
- The Third Degree (2011–Present)
- BBC Radio 1's Dance Anthems (2012–Present)
- Late Night Graham Torrington (2012–Present)
- The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw (2012–Present)
- The Show What You Wrote (2013–Present)
- Dead Ringers (2000–2007, 2014–Present)
- Friday Sports Panel (2014–Present)
- Home Front (2014–Present)
- The Chris Moyles Show (2015–Present)
- Stumped (2015–Present)
Ending this year
- 23 January – The Sunday Hour (1940–2018)
Deaths
- 16 January – Ed Doolan, 76, broadcaster (BBC WM, BRMB; first local presenter to be inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame)[22]
References
- ^ "Greening quits cabinet in PM's reshuffle". BBC News. BBC. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ "New Culture Secretary's favourite song is Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl". The i newspaper. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ "Radio 4 host off air after backing Gracie". BBC News. BBC. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ Savage, Mark (10 January 2018). "Jo Whiley moves to Radio 2 drivetime". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "BBC 'deeply unimpressed' over pay jokes". BBC News. BBC. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "BBC confirms local radio medium wave closures – RadioToday". radiotoday.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ "Maya Jama and celebrity guests join Radio 1 weekend line-up". BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. BBC. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ "Aled Jones to return to the BBC". BBC News. BBC. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Six male BBC presenters agree to pay cuts". BBC News. BBC. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ a b "A new look for Sunday mornings on Radio 2". BBC Press Office. BBC. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Comedian Jack Whitehall 'regrets lewd Queen joke'". BBC News. BBC. 4 February 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ "Noel Edmonds takes on Lloyds Bank with new radio station". BBC News. BBC. 6 February 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ Silverstein, Adam (7 February 2018). "Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 Breakfast Show surges to best ratings in two years". Digital Spy. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ O'Connor, Roisin (8 February 2018). "Nick Grimshaw bounces back with 800,000 extra listeners on Radio 1 show". The Independent. Independent Print Limited. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Glastonbury Festival plans plastic bottle ban". BBC News. BBC. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ "Global launches its own entertainment awards". Radio Today. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Global Awards categories revealed". Music Week. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ Plans announced for The Bay and Lakeland Radio – RadioToday, Radio Today, 8 January 2018
- ^ "Global purchases The Bay and Lakeland Radio". BBC News. Radio Today. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Nick Drake enters folk hall of fame". BBC News. BBC. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43428561
- ^ "BBC presenter Ed Doolan dies aged 76". BBC News. BBC. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.