United Kingdom - Services on Air - History
27.02.2015
Feature of services on air
- In the UK, Absolute Radio has launched a set of additional radio stations on DAB - using brand extensions to earn more revenue - launching more radio stations to broaden its output and increase its audience. It has seen significant increases in listening hours, audience and in revenues as a result.
- Smooth Radio has also launched Smooth Radio 70s, a national digital-only station.
- In 2014, Global Radio’s LBC became the first national full news talk commercial radio station to be broadcast across the UK. In March LBC hosted a well-publicised leadership debate on Europe between UKIP Leader Nigel Farage and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. The debate, in partnership with Sky News attracted national and international media coverage for LBC.
- During the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, a digital-only pop-up station BBC Radio 2 Eurovision, offered comprehensive coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- The 2014 Brazil World Cup starting on June 12 will be fully covered on DAB digital radio, with every match being covered by talkSPORT and BBC Radio 5 live/BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
- In early summer 2014, regulator Ofcom will advertise the licence for Digital Two, a new national commercial station network which will launch next year.
- During the 2015 Country to Country festival in London, a country music pop up station available on DAB, online and mobile from 5 March - 8 March was launched by the BBC. Named Radio 2 Country, the station broadcasted music, documentaries and archive content.
Listen to the Radio 2 Country audio advert.
05.06.2014
Feature of services on air
- In the UK, Absolute Radio has launched a set of additional radio stations on DAB - using brand extensions to earn more revenue - launching more radio stations to broaden its output and increase its audience. It has seen significant increases in listening hours, audience and in revenues as a result.
- Smooth Radio has also launched Smooth Radio 70s, a national digital-only station.
- In 2014, Global Radio’s LBC became the first national full news talk commercial radio station to be broadcast across the UK. In March LBC hosted a well-publicised leadership debate on Europe between UKIP Leader Nigel Farage and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. The debate, in partnership with Sky News attracted national and international media coverage for LBC.
- During the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, a digital-only pop-up station BBC Radio 2 Eurovision, offered comprehensive coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- The 2014 Brazil World Cup starting on June 12 will be fully covered on DAB digital radio, with every match being covered by talkSPORT and BBC Radio 5 live/BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
- In early summer 2014, regulator Ofcom will advertise the licence for Digital Two, a new national commercial station network which will launch next year.
22.04.2014
There are two regular national multiplexes (one BBC and one national commercial), 10 regular regional multiplexes and 38 regular local multiplexes on air.
Feature of services on air
- In the UK, Absolute Radio has launched a set of additional radio stations on DAB - using brand extensions to earn more revenue - launching more radio stations to broaden its output and increase its audience. It has seen significant increases in listening hours, audience and in revenues as a result.
- Smooth Radio has also launched Smooth Radio 70s, a national digital-only station.
- LBC has been launched as a national DAB radio station and hosted a well-publicised leadership debate on Europe between Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg (picture below), which made great radio listening and very clearly marked LBC’s (and DAB's) territory on the national radio landscape. Further announcements on national DAB stations are expected later this year.
- New digital-only pop-up station BBC Radio 2 Eurovision, the BBC’s first digital pop-up station since Olympics Extra in 2012, will offer the most comprehensive coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest to date, from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 May 2014.
- The 2014 Brazil World Cup starting on June 12 will be fully covered on DAB digital radio, with every match being covered by talkSPORT and BBC Radio 5 live/BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
- In early summer 2014, regulator Ofcom will advertise the licence for Digital Two, a new national commercial station network which will launch next year.
