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- Through its mixed economy of music, news and special feature broadcasting, Radio 1 enabled the BBC to engage a huge audience, of predominantly young people, on a range of political and social issues that they might not encounter elsewhere.
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On 30 September 1967 Radio 1 was launched. Pop arrived at the BBC. The Light Programme also changed into Radio 2, the old Third Programme became Radio 3, and the old Home Service emerged...
The station was established at the request of the British Government after the banning of pirate radio stations to fulfil a need in the UK for a legal pop music radio network. At the same time...
To write the history of the BBC, Asa Briggs once said, is ‘to write the history of everything else’. The relationship, he suggested, is more than one of background and foreground. Radio and television are like corridors through which the whole of life passes.
Through its mixed economy of music, news and special feature broadcasting, Radio 1 enabled the BBC to engage a huge audience, of predominantly young people, on a range of political and social...
Radio 1's initial format was influenced in particular by Radio London's American-style Top 40 format, in which music was divided into categories played in strict rotation.
Radio 3 would concentrate wholly on music and the arts, while Radio 4 would become the BBC’s speech network. If mixed radio broadcasting was part of the BBC’s history, its future was to...
