1978 in British radio

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This is a list of events in British radio during 1978.

Contents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

Autumn

November

December

Undated

Station debuts

Programme debuts

Continuing radio programmes

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

Ending this year

Closing this year

Births

Deaths

See also

References

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  2. "Budgets 1945 – 1979". BBC News.
  3. Roberts, Jem (2010). The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent. Random House. ISBN   978-1-4070-8780-1.
  4. BBC Handbook 1978. British Broadcasting Corporation. 1977. p. 123. ISBN   9780563174769.
  5. BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 1 listings 17 November 1978
  6. "History of Radio Transmission in the UK" (PDF). Frequency Finder.
  7. "Radio 1 History – Transmitters". Radio Rewind. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  8. "Random radio jottings: BBC All Network Service". 30 May 2011.
  9. "Boggenstrovia's Bit: The Christmas that Nearly wasn't – the BBC Strike of December 1978 and Christmas Television of that year (2015 Update)". 27 December 2013.
  10. "You can't touch me, I'm part of the union – Politics – Transdiffusion Broadcasting System".
  11. "TV Cream". Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  12. Young, Andrew (7 November 1978). "Star line-up as Radio Scotland goes pop". The Glasgow Herald . p. 4. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  13. "Former Brains Trust chairman". The Glasgow Herald. Glasgow, Scotland, UK: Lonrho. 20 January 1978. p. 5. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  14. John A. Willis (1979). John Willis' Screen World. Crown. pp. 234–5. ISBN   9780517538357.
  15. Colin Larkin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. Guinness Pub. p. 2833. ISBN   978-1-56159-176-3.
  16. "Tolchard Evans" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  17. The New York Times Biographical Service. University Microfilms. 1978. p. 329.
  18. Colin Larkin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. Guinness Pub. p. 3055. ISBN   978-1-56159-176-3.
  19. "Mr Victor Silvester: doyen of ballroom dancing" (obituary), The Times, London, 15 August 1978, p. 14.
  20. Dixon, Stephen (2013). "Elsie and Doris Waters". Voices of Variety. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2024.