2000 in British radio

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This is a list of events in British radio during 2000.

Events

January

• No events

February

• 14 February – BBC Thames Valley FM closes because the station was not popular with listeners, resulting in the return of BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Oxford. Their programme schedules remain unchanged and most output continues to be shared.
• 17 February – Talk Radio UK is rebranded as talkSPORT.
• February – BBC Radio 2 presents its first annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

March

• 14 March – Chris Evans sells his Ginger Media Group to SMG plc for £225m. The sale made Evans the highest paid entertainer in the UK in 2000, estimated by the Sunday Times Rich List to have been paid around £35.5million.
• 25 March – BBC GLR changes its name to BBC London Live.
• 30 March – Zoë Ball presents her final breakfast show on Radio 1.
• 31 March –
  • Sara Cox takes over as Radio 1 breakfast presenter.
  • Katrina Leskanich presents her last night time show on BBC Radio 2.
• March – Helen Boaden is appointed as controller of BBC Radio 4.

April

• 3 April – Janice Long begins presenting the night time show on Radio 2.

May

• May – Virgin Radio is fined £75,000 (then the largest penalty imposed by the Radio Authority) for breakfast show presenter Chris Evans's repeated on-air endorsement of Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral elections.

June

• No events

July

• 10 July – Ten 17 changes its name to Ten 17 Mercury.

August

• 4 August, Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Sara Cox is reprimanded after saying live on air that Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother "smelt of wee"

September

• No events

October

• 21 October – The comedian Jack Docherty joins Radio 2 to host Saturday Night Jack. The show is aired for three months.

November

• No events

December

• 4 December – FLR 107.3 changes its name to Fusion 107.3FM.

Station debuts

• 26 January – Q97.2
• 1 May – 106.3 Bridge FM
• 2 May – Oneword
• 3 May – Choice 107.1
• 29 May – Kick FM
• 10 July – Argyll FM
• 25 July – 2BR
• 3 October – Real Radio Wales
• 16 October – PrimeTime Radio
• Unknown – Source FM

Closing this year

• 14 February BBC Thames Valley FM
• 28 September – Channel Travel Radio

See also

• 2000 in British music
• 2000 in British television
• 2000 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 2000