1. Events
    January  February  March  April  May  June  July  August  September  October  November  December 

2. Station debuts

3. Closing this year

4. Programme debuts

5. Continuing programmes
    1940s  1950s  1960s  1970s  1980s  1990s 

6. See also

7. References

This is a list of events in British radio during 2000.

Events

January

• No events.

February

• 9 February – Mike Harding presents highlights of the first annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, which were awarded at London's Waldorf Hotel.^[1]
• 14 February – BBC Thames Valley FM closes because the station was not popular with listeners, resulting in the return of BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Oxford.^[2] Their programme schedules remain unchanged and most output continues to be shared.
• 17 February – Talk Radio UK is rebranded as talkSPORT.

March

• 10 March – Zoë Ball presents the Radio 1 Breakfast Show for the final time.^[3] Scott Mills begins a three-week stint as the show's temporary presenter.^[4]
• 14 March – Chris Evans sells his Ginger Media Group to SMG plc for £225m.^[5] The sale made Evans the highest paid entertainer in the UK in 2000, estimated by the Sunday Times Rich List to have been paid around £35.5million.^[6]
• 25 March – BBC GLR changes its name to BBC London Live.
• 31 March – Katrina Leskanich presents her last night time show on BBC Radio 2.
• March – Helen Boaden is appointed as controller of BBC Radio 4.

April

• 3 April –
  • Sara Cox takes over as presenter of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.^[7]
  • Janice Long begins presenting the night time show on Radio 2.

May

• May –
  • Virgin Radio is fined £75,000 (then the largest penalty imposed by the Radio Authority) for breakfast show presenter Chris Evans's repeated on-air endorsement of Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral elections.^[8]
  • Capital Radio buys Border Radio Holdings, thereby acquiring the three Century radio stations.^[9]

June

• No events.

July

• 10 July – Ten 17 changes its name to Ten 17 Mercury.
• July – Bob Shennan replaces Roger Mosey as Controller of BBC Radio 5 Live.^[10]
• July – BBC Radio 3 hires Andy Kershaw to host a world music programme,^[11] two months after BBC Radio 1 axed his world music show.^[12]

August

• 4 August – Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Sara Cox is reprimanded after saying live on air that Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother "smelt of wee"^[13]

September

• No events.

October

• 21 October – The comedian Jack Docherty joins Radio 2 to host Saturday Night Jack, a 13-part series featuring music, reviews and interviews.^[14]

November

• No events.

December

• 4 December – FLR 107.3 changes its name to Fusion 107.3FM.
• 20 December – Following the death of singer Kirsty MacColl, Radio 2 have postponed a series she recorded about Cuban music that was due to begin airing on this day.^[15] The eight-part series, Kirsty MacColl's Cuba is instead broadcast from 31 January 2001.^[16]
• 26 December – Radio 4 clears its Boxing Day schedule in order to broadcast an eight-hour reading of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, read by Stephen Fry.^[17]

Station debuts

• 26 January – Q97.2
• 1 May – 106.3 Bridge FM
• 2 May – Oneword^[18]
• 3 May – Choice 107.1
• 29 May – Kick FM
• 26 June – The Groove
• 10 July – Argyll FM
• 25 July – 2BR
• 3 October – Real Radio Wales
• 16 October – PrimeTime Radio
• Unknown – Source FM

Closing this year

• 14 February BBC Thames Valley FM (1996–2000)
• 28 September – Channel Travel Radio

Programme debuts

• January – The Big Booth on BBC Radio 4 (2000–2001)
• 7 January – Dead Ringers on BBC Radio 4 (2000–2007, 2014–Present)
• February – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards on BBC Radio 2 (2000–Present)
• May – The Human Zoo on talkSPORT (2000–2002)
• 11 July – Ectoplasm on BBC Radio 4 (2000)
• 3 August – Little Britain on BBC Radio 4 (2000–2002)
• 31 August – Big John @ Breakfast on Hallam FM (2000–Present)
• 21 October – Saturday Night Jack on BBC Radio 2 (2000–2001)

Continuing programmes

1940s

• Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
• Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
• Letter from America (1946–2004)
• Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
• A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)

1950s

• The Archers (1950–Present)
• The Today Programme (1957–Present)
• Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
• Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)

1960s

• Farming Today (1960–Present)
• The World at One (1965–Present)
• The Official Chart (1967–Present)
• Just a Minute (1967–Present)
• The Living World (1968–Present)
• The Organist Entertains (1969–2018)

1970s

• PM (1970–Present)
• Start the Week (1970–Present)
• You and Yours (1970–Present)
• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (1972–Present)
• Good Morning Scotland (1973–Present)
• Newsbeat (1973–Present)
• The News Huddlines (1975–2001)
• File on 4 (1977–Present)
• Money Box (1977–Present)
• The News Quiz (1977–Present)
• Feedback (1979–Present)
• The Food Programme (1979–Present)
• Science in Action (1979–Present)

1980s

• In Business (1983–Present)
• Sounds of the 60s (1983–Present)
• Loose Ends (1986–Present)

1990s

• The Moral Maze (1990–Present)
• Essential Selection (1991–Present)
• No Commitments (1992–2007)
• The Pepsi Chart (1993–2002)
• Wake Up to Wogan (1993–2009)
• Essential Mix (1993–Present)
• Up All Night (1994–Present)
• Wake Up to Money (1994–Present)
• Private Passions (1995–Present)
• Parkinson's Sunday Supplement (1996–2007)
• The David Jacobs Collection (1996–2013)
• Westway (1997–2005)
• The 99p Challenge (1998–2004)
• Puzzle Panel (1998–2005)
• Drivetime with Johnnie Walker (1998–2006)
• Sunday Night at 10 (1998–2013)
• In Our Time (1998–Present)
• Material World (1998–Present)
• Scott Mills (1998–Present)
• The Now Show (1998–Present)
• The Attractive Young Rabbi (1999–2002)
• It's Been a Bad Week (1999–2006)
• Jonathan Ross (1999–2010)
• Steve Wright in the Afternoon (1981–1993, 1999–Present)

See also

• 2000 in British music
• 2000 in British television
• 2000 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 2000

References

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