The first edition of The AM Alternative is broadcast on BBC Radio 5. The new programme, presented by Johnnie Walker, is on air every weekday and replaces the three separate shows – This Family Edition, Sound Advice and The Health Show – which had previously occupied the mid-morning slot.
BBC Radio 2 launches the Radio 2 Top 20 Easy Listening Album Chart, broadcast each Monday during Ed Stewart’s show.[2]
February
11 February – Airport Information Radio closes. The station had provided a travel news service for people using Heathrow and Gatwick airports since 1990.[3]
17 February – Danny Baker replaces Sarah Ward and Jon Briggs as presenter of Radio 5's weekday breakfast programme Morning Edition.[4]
21 February – Ahead of a schedule revamp, Gary Davies presents his final 'bit in the middle' on BBC Radio 1. He had presented the weekday lunchtime show for the station since 1984. He is replaced on 24 February by Jakki Brambles. The new schedule sees Gary moving to the weekends, including presenting the weekend breakfast show.
29 February – BBC Radio 3 stops broadcasting on MW. Its frequency is to be used by a national commercial station.
6 March – Round Table is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 for the final time.
8 March – Tommy Vance presents this edition of Radio 1's Top 40 programme. This is the final time that the Radio 1 chart show runs for 2 and a half hours.
9 March – BBC Radio 1 undergoes a schedule revamp, with most of the changes being to the weekend schedule, and a new jingles package is introduced based on the theme Closer to the Music.
15 March –
Chris Evans makes his BBC Radio 1 debut, presenting a short-lived Sunday early afternoon show called Too Much Gravy.
23 March – BBC Radio Nottingham ends transmissions on one of its MW transmitters. BBC Radio Cleveland also stops broadcasting on MW at around the same time.
Late March–7 April – Radio 4 long wave opts out of the main Radio 4 schedule to provide additional coverage of the latest developments in the general election campaign. Called Campaign Report, the coverage runs for around four hours each weekday, as three separate programmes airing mid-morning, early afternoon and early evening.[6]
April
3 April – Commercial radio comes to Cornwall, with the launch of Pirate FM.
April – The Radio Authority awards the second Independent National Radio licence to Independent Music Radio, a consortium jointly owned by TV-am and Virgin Communications Ltd. The Authority had hoped that the station would launch by the end of the year but it would be the following April before it went on air.
May
20 May – Ball-by-ball cricket commentary moves to BBC Radio 3's FM frequencies for the summer following the switching-off of BBC Radio 3's MW frequency.
June
10–26 June – For the first time, the BBC provides full radio coverage of an international football tournament when it broadcasts live commentary of every game of Euro 92 on BBC Radio 5.
28 June – BBC Radio 2 provides fifteen hours of coverage of the first annual National Music Day, presented by Ken Bruce.[9]
July
4 July – Commercial radio comes to North Yorkshire, with the launch of Minster FM.
13 July – In a bid to counter-act the forthcoming launch of Classic FM, BBC Radio 3 makes major changes to its programmes, including the launch of new weekday breakfast and drivetime programmes. On Air replaces the weekday editions of Morning Concert and In Tune replaces Mainly for Pleasure.
17 July – As part of the Radio 3 changes, a new three-hour Sunday morning show of popular classics launches, introduced by Brian Kay.
26 July – 9 August – Radio 5 provides full live coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games. Programmes run all day, from 6.30am until 10pm. This is the first time that BBC Radio has provided full coverage of the Games.
July – As Classic FM prepares to launch, test transmissions are carried out using a recording of birdsong originally made for a Raymond Briggs play about nuclear war in 1991. The recording proves popular with listeners and from 2003 to 2005 and again from 2008 until 2009 the recording becomes part of a full-time station called Birdsong Radio.[10]
7 September – At 6am, Britain's first national commercial radio station, Classic FM, is launched. The first piece of music played is Handel's Zadok the Priest.
The BBC announces plans to launch a continuous news service on BBC Radio 4’s long wave frequency. The date of 5th April 1994 is set as the launch date.[13]
18 October – After previously enjoying success as a pirate radio station, Sunshine 855 in Shropshire officially goes on air.
November
No events.
December
December – The interdenominational Christian youth radio project Radio Cracker, aimed at raising awareness of poverty in the Third World, returns with 83 different stations broadcasting as Restricted Service Licences in the run-up to Christmas.[14]
31 December – Radio Luxemburg ceases to broadcast English programming shortly after 1am, doing so exactly one year after the station had stopped broadcasting on MW.[18]
Unknown
1992 sees the BBC World Service start to be broadcast on many BBC Local Radio stations when they are not on the air, although most stations in the south and east continue to air BBC Radio 2 during their overnight downtime.
↑ Ward, Stephen (27 December 1992). "Radio Luxembourg signs off". The Independent. Independent Print Limited. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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