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- The BBC launches a pop radio station. Radio 1 was launched at 7 am on Saturday, 30 September 1967, with DJ Tony Blackburn playing 'Flowers in the rain' by The Move. 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.
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Radio 1 was launched at 7 am on Saturday, 30 September 1967, with DJ Tony Blackburn playing 'Flowers in the rain' by The Move. The station was established at the request of the British...
- BBC - History of the BBC, Start of Radio 1 30 September 1967
A new national radio station was launched on 30 September...
- BBC - History of the BBC, Start of Radio 1 30 September 1967
Sep 20, 1997 · Tony Blackburn opened Radio 1 on 30 September 1967 at 7.00am, with Robin Scott, then Controller Radio 1, standing over him! The station set out with a blank sheet of paper to create a new style...
History. First broadcast. Radio 1 was established in 1967 (along with the more middle-of-the-road BBC Radio 2) as a successor to the BBC Light Programme, which had broadcast popular music and other entertainment since 1945.
Oct 20, 2013 · A new national radio station was launched on 30 September 1967 with the start of Radio 1. Radio 1 offered a diet of pop music, and was intended to replace the pirate radio stations recently...
Sep 30, 2017 · But do you know which DJ inspired the lyrics to I Am The Walrus? Or why Radio 1's first weather forecast prompted 12 complaints? Here are 50 facts to celebrate the stations' first 50 years.
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 ...
The simultaneous launch of Radio 1 was an attempt to create a brand new pop music service to replace the outlawed pirate radio stations. Radios 1 and 2 got almost three quarters of the audience...
