13 March - BBC Radio 2 confirms plans to overhaul its weekend schedule from April. This will include Paul O'Grady, Alan Carr and Emma Forbes joining the network to present shows, while the Saturday afternoon comedy hour will move to Thursday evenings. The changes will also see Johnnie Walker present Sounds of the 70s on Sunday afternoon.[6]
1 April - Ownership of Touch FM (Banbury) is transferred to Banbury Broadcasting Company Ltd. The station was subsequently renamed Banbury Sound on 1 June.[7]
3 April - Les Ross presents his final weekday afternoon show on BBC Radio WM as he prepares to retire from radio.[8]
22 May - The BBC says that Jonathan Ross's Radio 2 show will no longer be broadcast live following complaints about a joke he made on an edition of the programme which some listeners interpreted as being anti-gay.[10]
13 June - Singer Emma Bunton begins hosting her own pre-recorded Saturday drive time[13] radio show on Heart in the Saturday afternoon slot 4pm – 7pm. She will also present the Friday drivetime show on London's Heart 106.2.[14]
2 July - Debut of the Torchwood drama Golden Age on BBC Radio 4.
3 July - Debut of the Torchwood drama The Dead Line on BBC Radio 4.
15 July - Radio 2 presenter Sarah Kennedy causes controversy after describing the late Enoch Powell as "the best Prime Minister this country never had" on her Dawn Patrol programme, and is later reprimanded for the remarks.[15]
29 July - Conservative leader David Cameron apologizes for any offence caused after using the word "twat" on live radio during a breakfast radio show interview on Absolute Radio.[17][18]
2 August - Jazz singer Clare Teal takes over as presenter of Sunday Night at 10.[16]
15 August - Former Radio 2 presenter Malcolm Laycock criticises the network's management for abandoning its older listeners and claims he was constructively dismissed by the station, although Radio 2 denies this to be the case. Laycock resigned from his position following a long-running dispute with his producer over the content of his show, and because of issues regarding his salary.[19]
14 September - all programmes, apart from weekday/Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons, are networked across the KMFM network
21 September - Fearne Cotton takes over Jo Whiley's old mid-morning show on Radio 1.
10 November - Thirteen stations owned by GMG Radio take part in an eighteen-hour on-air appeal to raise money for the Help for Heroes charity. The event raises almost £200,000.[21]
1 December - Touch Radio is rebranded to Touch FM.
7 December - Les Ross returns to the airwaves when he becomes the presenter of the Big City Breakfast Show on Birmingham's Big City Radio 89.1.[22]
13 December - Emma Forbes announces that she is to leave her Radio 2 Sunday morning show.
25 December – Tom Binns cuts off a broadcast of the Queen's Speech while presenting a Christmas Day show on Birmingham's BRMB with the comment "two words: bore ing", an action that leads to him being sacked from the station.[24][25]
Unknown - Aston FM changes its name to Big City Radio.
