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5 June – Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio Postscript, "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Service, marking the role of the pleasure steamers in the Dunkirk evacuation, just completed. 8 June – BBC airs the first weekly episode of Radio Rhythm Club, a programme of jazz and ...
12 February: The Adventures of Superman (1940–1951) debuts on WOR. [13] 18 March: Light of the World debuts on NBC Red. 23 March: Truth or Consequences debuts on CBS. 21 April: Take It or Leave It makes its debut on CBS Radio in the United States, with Bob Hawk as host.
Initially, the station was on the air from 11.00 am until 11.00 pm. However from Sunday 16 June 1940, the station would commence its broadcasting day from 6.30 am and would continue until 11.00 pm. These broadcasting hours remained in place until the new BBC General Forces Programme began on Sunday 27 February 1944, with the service maintaining ...
1954 in British radio – First broadcast of Children's Favourites. 1955 in British radio – Opening of the UK's first VHF / FM transmitter; first broadcast of From Our Own Correspondent. 1956 in British radio –. 1957 in British radio – First broadcast of The Today Programme and Test Match Special. 1958 in British radio –.
Top stations in the United Kingdom. Total listenership in the United Kingdom in December 2023 was 49.473 million. All BBC programming had 31.286 million listeners, and all commercial programming had 39.130 million listeners. The figures counted listeners over the age of 15 who tuned in for at least five minutes.
Website. www .bbc .co .uk /programmes /p00pn1s9. Welsh Rarebit is a British radio variety show broadcast from Cardiff by the BBC between February 1940 and December 1952. The title was taken from the dish of the same name. The show's most lasting legacy remains its closing song, "We'll Keep a Welcome". [1]
By 1964, the Home Service was on the air each day from 6.35 am (7.50 am on Sundays) and would conclude each night at the precise time of 11.48 pm. On 30 September 1967, the BBC split the Light Programme into separate pop music and entertainment stations, becoming BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 respectively. The Third Programme became BBC Radio 3 ...
25 October 1944. ( 1944-10-25) Radio Londres ( [ʁa.djo lɔ̃dʁ], French for "Radio London") was a radio station broadcast from 1940 to 1944 by the BBC in London to Nazi-occupied France. It was entirely in French and was operated by the Free French who had escaped from occupied France. It served not only to counter the propaganda broadcasts of ...