2005 in British radio
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This is a list of events in British radio during 2005.
Events
January
- No events
February
- 6 February – Les Ross returns to BBC Radio WM to present a weekly Sunday morning show. He had last worked at the station in the early 1970s.
March
- 6 March – JK and Joel take over as presenters of The Official Chart.
April
- No events
May
- 23 May – As BBC staff stage a one-day strike over announced job cuts, Terry Wogan crosses the picket line to present his show.[1] Reportedly, he gave them a smile and wished them all well. He explained on air that the reason for doing so was that he was contracted to host Wake up to Wogan and hence was not directly employed by the BBC, and so could not legally strike with their employees.
June
- 5-10 June – BBC Radio 3 clears its airwaves for almost an entire week to broadcast the music of a single composer – Ludwig van Beethoven. [2] This is followed up at the end of the year with ten days of non-stop Johann Sebastian Bach which is broadcast in the run-up to Christmas.[3]
- 7 June – London's 102.2 Jazz FM is relaunched as 102.2 Smooth FM.
- 21 June – Emap buys Scottish Radio Holdings.[4]
July
- 23 July – Les Ross takes over the Saturday breakfast show on BBC WM.
- 25 July – London's 102.2 Smooth FM signs a three year deal with Chelsea F.C. to provide exclusive match coverage of the club's games until the end of the 2007–08 season.[5]
August
- 29 August – 106 Century FM is rebranded as Heart 106.
September
- September – A year after BBC Radio 2 stopped broadcasting a weekly edition of Pick of the Pops, the programme returns as a Sunday afternoon show.
- 8–12 September – BBC Radio 5 Live devotes its daytime schedule to broadcast extensive live coverage of the deciding Ashes cricket match.[6] Normally, the station provides reports into its regular programmes.
October
- 13 October – BBC Radio 1 hosts the first John Peel Day, a year after John presented his final show for the station which was two weeks before his death.
November
- 3 November – BBC Coventry & Warwickshire returns as a stand-alone station.
- 25 November – The UK's first Islamic radio station, Islam Radio, is established in Bradford, West Yorkshire.[7]
December
- No events
Unknown
- After being acquired by the CN Group, Kix 96 and its other sister stations in the south Midlands are rebranded as Touch FM.
Station debuts
- 21 February – Chill
- 7 June – 102.2 Smooth Radio
- 3 October – KMFM Ashford
- 1 November – Aston FM
- 25 November – Islam Radio
- 5 December – 102.6 & 106.8 Durham FM
Closing this year
Date | Station | Debut |
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27 May | 102.2 Jazz FM | 1990[8] |
Programme debuts
- 3 October – The Dream Ticket with Nemone on BBC 6 Music (2005–2006)
Continuing programmes
1940s
- Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
- 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)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)
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)
- The Organist Entertains (1969–2018)
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)
- No Commitments (1992–2007)
- Wake Up to Wogan (1993–2009)
- Essential Mix (1993–Present)
- Up All Night (1994–Present)
- Wake Up to Money (1994–Present)
- Private Passions (1995–Present)
- Parkinson's Sunday Supplement (1996–2007)
- The David Jacobs Collection (1996–2013)
- Drivetime with Johnnie Walker (1998–2006)
- Sunday Night at 10 (1998–2013)
- In Our Time (1998–Present)
- Material World (1998–Present)
- Scott Mills (1998–Present)
- The Now Show (1998–Present)
- It's Been a Bad Week (1999–2006)
- Jonathan Ross (1999–2010)
- Steve Wright in the Afternoon (1981–1993, 1999–Present)
2000s
- Dead Ringers (2000–2007, 2014–Present)
- BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2000–Present)
- Big John @ Breakfast (2000–Present)
- Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections (2001–2007)
- Jammin' (2001–2008)
- Go4It (2001–2009)
- The Jo Whiley Show (2001–2009)
- Kermode and Mayo's Film Review (2001–Present)
- The Big Toe Radio Show (2002–2011)
- A Kist o Wurds (2002–Present)
- The Day the Music Died (2003–2007)
- Fighting Talk (2003–Present)
- Jeremy Vine (2003–Present)
- Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (2004–2006)
- Trevor's World of Sport (2004–2007)
- The Chris Moyles Breakfast Show (2004–2012)
- Annie Mac (2004–Present)
- Elaine Paige on Sunday (2004–Present)
Ending this year
- 29 September – Jane Gazzo's Dream Ticket (2004–2005)
- October – Westway (1997–2005)
- 18 October – Think the Unthinkable (2001–2005)
- Unknown – Puzzle Panel (1998–2005)
- Unknown – Whispers (2003–2005)
Deaths
- 6 March – Tommy Vance, 63, British disc jockey[9]
References
- ^ O'Carroll, Lisa; Deans, Jason; Day, Julia (23 May 2005). "TV stars: why we crossed BBC picket line". Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
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- ^ Christmas with Bach
- ^ Brook, Stephen (21 June 2005). "Emap snaps up Scottish Radio Holdings". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ^ "Chelsea in Smooth FM broadcast deal". Campaign Live. 25 July 2005. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ Cricket mania sweeps 5 Live
- ^ Casci, Mark (24 November 2005). "Islamic radio to be launched". Muslim News. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
- ^ "Goodbye 102.2 JAZZ FM". Radio Today. 28 May 2005. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
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