This is a list of events in British radio during 1977.

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January edit

  • 3 January – At 6.45am, BBC Radio Cymru launches, and becomes the first broadcasting outlet dedicated wholly to programmes in Welsh. The service is part-time and restricted to breakfast shows, extended news bulletins at breakfast, lunchtime & early evening and a number of off-peak opt-outs from a sustaining Radio 4 Wales English-language feed.

February edit

  • 14 February – The Annan Committee makes its recommendations and its principle recommendation for radio is for the privatisation of BBC local radio;[1] this is not implemented.

March edit

  • No events.

April edit

  • 30 April – The first edition of the Saturday morning magazine programme Sport on Four is broadcast on BBC Radio 4; it will run until 1998.[2]

May edit

  • 2 May – BBC Radio 4 launches a new breakfast programme Up to the Hour. Consequently, the Today programme is reduced from a continuous two-hour programme to two 25-minute slots. This arrangement lasts for just over a year before Today reverts to a continuous broadcast.

June edit

  • No events.

July edit

  • No events.

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September edit

  • No events.

October edit

  • 2 October – The first edition of personal financial advice magazine programme Money Box is broadcast on BBC Radio 4; it will still be running into the 2020s.
  • 11 October – Bing Crosby makes his last ever recordings, three days before his death, at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.[3]

November edit

  • 28 November – BBC Radio 1 launches a weekday afternoon programme presented by Tony Blackburn. Previously, the station has simulcasted BBC Radio 2's afternoon show. Tony is replaced on mid-mornings by Simon Bates. Consequently Radio 1 now has its own all-day schedule on weekdays although the station continues to simulcast Radio 2 each night from 7pm, apart from the weekday late night John Peel programme.

December edit

  • No events.

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  • 8 November – Ted Ray, comedian (born 1905)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Annan Committee (1977). Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting. HMSO.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 4 FM – 30 April 1977". BBC Genome. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  3. ^ Barnes, Ken (1980). The Crosby Years. New York: Saint Martins Press. pp. 57–60. ISBN 978-0-312-17663-1.