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.
February
11 February –
Airport Information Radio closes. The station had provided a travel news service for people using Heathrow and Gatwick airports since 1990.[2]
17 February –
Danny Baker replaces Sarah Ward and
Jon Briggs as presenter of
Radio 5's weekday breakfast programme Morning Edition.[3]
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.
Late March–7 April – For the first time
BBC Radio 4 on long wave opts out of the main Radio 4 schedule to provide extra news coverage. It does so to provide additional coverage of the latest developments in the
general election campaign. Before now, these programmes would have been broadcast on the station's FM frequencies.
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.[7]
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 6.30 am until 10 pm. 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.[8]
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.[11]
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.[12]
31 December –
Radio Luxemburg ceases to broadcast English programming shortly after 1 am, doing so exactly one year after the station had stopped broadcasting on MW.[16]
^Ward, Stephen (27 December 1992). "Radio Luxembourg signs off". The Independent. Independent Print Limited.
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