1978 in British radio explained

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

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

Births

Deaths

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Significant events of 1978 . The National Archives . 24 February 2012 . 6 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120406002733/http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2008/december/events1978.htm . dead .
  2. Web site: Budgets 1945 – 1979. BBC News.
  3. Book: Roberts, Jem. The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent. Random House. 2010. 978-1-4070-8780-1.
  4. Book: BBC Handbook 1978. British Broadcasting Corporation. 1977. 123. 9780563174769.
  5. http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/radio1/england/1978-11-17 BBC Genome Project BBC Radio 1 listings 17 November 1978
  6. Web site: History of Radio Transmission in the UK. Frequency Finder.
  7. Web site: Radio 1 History – Transmitters. Radio Rewind. 18 February 2010.
  8. Web site: Random radio jottings: BBC All Network Service. 30 May 2011.
  9. Web site: 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. Web site: You can't touch me, I'm part of the union – Politics – Transdiffusion Broadcasting System.
  11. Web site: TV Cream. 2018-09-06. 2013-01-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20130106183921/http://tv.cream.org/extras/strike.htm. dead.
  12. News: Star line-up as Radio Scotland goes pop . Andrew . Young . . 4 . 7 November 1978 . 1 April 2016.
  13. News: Former Brains Trust chairman . The Glasgow Herald . Glasgow, Scotland, UK . 5 . Lonrho . 20 January 1978 . 28 September 2015 .
  14. Book: John A. Willis. John Willis' Screen World. 1979. Crown. 234–5. 9780517538357.
  15. Book: Colin Larkin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. 1995. Guinness Pub.. 978-1-56159-176-3. 2833.
  16. Web site: Tolchard Evans. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 27 September 2014 . subscription .
  17. Book: The New York Times Biographical Service. 1978. University Microfilms. 329.
  18. Book: Colin Larkin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Lincoln, Abe-Primettes. 1995. Guinness Pub.. 978-1-56159-176-3. 3055.
  19. "Mr Victor Silvester: doyen of ballroom dancing" (obituary), The Times, London, 15 August 1978, p. 14.
  20. Web site: Elsie and Doris Waters. Stephen. Dixon. Voices of Variety. 2013. 2024-08-21.