* From 1980 to 2009, a local radio station broadcasting from Peterborough was called Hereward FM, before being relaunched as Heart Peterborough.

It recently relaunched as an internet only station.

Westinghouse relaunched the station as KDKA on November 2, 1920, claiming to be " the world's first commercially licensed radio station ".

The station relaunched as BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 April 2011 to bring the station closer to its sister station, BBC Radio 4.

On 8 July 1988 Rival tycoon Rupert Murdoch, having failed to gain regulatory approval for his own satellite service, and failing to become part of the BSB consortium announced that his pan-European television station, Sky Channel, would be relaunched as a four channel UK-based service called Sky Television, using the Astra system and broadcast in PAL with analogue sound.

The brand name was relaunched by Channel 4 as an online radio station in November 2006.

On 9 January 2006, the station was relaunched under its original name Capital Radio, with a modified line-up of presenters and a slightly tweaked music format.

The only change made to the licence was the classification of the franchise as North and North East Scotland, as opposed to North East Scotland-a change which the station had already capitalised upon in January 1980 when Grampian Today was relaunched as North Tonight as part of a major expansion for Grampian's news operation.

In January 2012, the Halifax station relaunched their Top 40 / Dance format and began patterning their direction after its sister station in Winnipeg, CHWE, who uses the moniker " Energy 106.

After WHTA relocated to 107. 9, 97. 5 FM relaunched as urban gospel station " Praise 97. 5 " with the call sign WEGF originally until December 5, 2001 when the call sign was again changed to WPZE.

For a time starting in the fall of 2001, the station relaunched the 1 p. m. hour of the Midday News as the WBZ Business Hour, with an increased focus on business news ; this program was similar to one on Los Angeles sister station KNX ( WBZ has since returned to regular news in the 1 p. m. hour ).

On 30 January 2006, the station relaunched its logo to coincide with the Nine Network's fiftieth year of broadcasting.

The station subsequently relaunched with a vastly more mainstream format, and a new advert featuring a friendly cartoon radio saying " Don't be afraid!

In 2001, DCL transferred 3AK from 1503 kHz to 1116 kHz and relaunched 3AK once again as a talk back station in direct competition to top rating stations 3AW and 774 ABC Melbourne.

Initially called BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey, the station relaunched with the name BBC Southern Counties Radio on 1 August 1994.

The station was relaunched in April 2006.

However only three years into the newly relaunched station the station was given an additional three years to prove itself to its audience by senior BBC management or close for good: this threat was also applied to its other metropolitan BBC Local Radio stations BBC WM in Birmingham and Manchester's BBC GMR.

Facing even more public criticism over GLR's position in the London radio market and its very low listening reach, the station was relaunched on 25 March 2000 as BBC London Live 94. 9 in a blaze of publicity.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

Charles regularly sits in for Janice Long, Steve Wright and Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2, and has presented numerous one-off programmes on the station, including The Craig Charles Soul All-Nighter ( 2011 ), which he hosted continuously for 12 hours.

In 1927, Christopher Stone became the first radio announcer and programmer in the United Kingdom, on the BBC radio station.

In addition to Egyptian programming, the Middle East Broadcast Company, a Saudi television station transmitting from London ( MBC ), Arab Radio and Television ( ART ), Al-Jazeera television, and other Gulf stations as well as Western networks such as CNN and BBC, provide access to more international programs to Egyptians who own satellite receivers.

BBC national radio stations are also relayed locally via a transmitter located to the south of Douglas, relayed from Sandale transmitting station in Cumbria.

* 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.

They are regularly repeated on the digital speech station BBC Radio 4 Extra and are available on audio CD.

The BBC World Service has a station based in Grand Anse in southern Mahé which is also listened to in parts of East Africa.

Shetland is served by a weekly local newspaper, The Shetland Times and the online Shetland News with radio service being provided by BBC Radio Shetland and the commercial radio station SIBC.

Many BBC Local Radio stations and some commercial stations offer a talk format, for example, BBC London, the BBC's flagship local station.

In 2009, British digital radio station BBC Radio 7 broadcast Planet B, a science-fiction drama set in a virtual world.

* July 29 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched, aimed at mainstream light entertainment and music.

* November 8 – The BBC's first local radio station ( BBC Radio Leicester ) is launched.

Rather than creating a single network with local stations owned and operated by a single company ( as is the case with the BBC ), each local area had a separate television station independently owned and operated, although most of these stations shared a number of programmes.

Due to the launch of internet based services, the need for a radio station is less frequent in countries where the population has easy access to the internet news sites of the BBC.

It is also common for BBC programmes to air on traditionally Voice of America or ORF transmitters, while their programming is relayed by a station physically located in the UK.

A similar service is operated in the United Kingdom by the National Physical Laboratory, broadcasting from Anthorn radio station in north-west England, and by the BBC using the 198kHz carrier of the Radio 4 national radio station with a frequency accuracy of 1 part in 10 < sup > 11 </ sup >.

In 1940, Unwin got a job at the BBC working on transmitters and was stationed at the Borough Hill transmitting station in Daventry, England.

Idle's first solo work was his own BBC Radio One show, Radio Five ( pre-dating the real Radio Five station by 18 years ).

Presented by Eisenhower himself, it honoured Niven's work in setting up the BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, a radio news and entertainment station for the Allied forces.

* 1939: First 4 MW utility power generation gas turbine from BBC Brown, Boveri & Cie. for an emergency power station in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

* BBC Radio Oxford, a BBC radio station

** Radio Atlas, a radio station in Montenegro

* 1989 – Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in the North Sea by British and Dutch governments.

* 1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.

One of New York City's major non-commercial radio broadcasters is WFUV, an National Public Radio – affiliated 50, 000-watt station broadcasting from Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

This includes the Belsat TV station and European Radio for Belarus ( Eŭrapéjskaje Rádyjo dla Biełarúsi )

* 102. 1 Bay Radio, a radio station in South Wales, originally launched as Swansea Bay Radio

* Bay Radio ( Spain ), a radio station serving the Valencian Community in Spain

* Bay Radio ( Malta ), a radio station located in Malta

Bodmin is the home of NCB Radio, an Internet radio station which aims to bring a dedicated station to North Cornwall.

* Milestone Radio: In two separate rounds of license hearings in the 1990s, the CRTC rejected applications by Milestone Radio to launch a radio station in Toronto which would have been Canada's first urban music station ; in both cases, the CRTC instead granted licenses to stations that duplicated formats already offered by other stations in the Toronto market.

In parallel, the church purchased a shortwave radio station and syndicated radio production to National Public Radio.

Within the record, joke commercials recorded by the band and actual jingles from recently outlawed pirate radio station Radio London were interspersed between the songs, ranging from pop songs to hard rock and psychedelic rock, culminating with a mini-opera titled " Rael.

Connectivity to the fixed network ( which may be of many different kinds ) is done through a base station or " Radio Fixed Part " to terminate the radio link, and a gateway to connect calls to the fixed network.

In 1993, the first internet " radio station ", Internet Talk Radio, was developed by Carl Malamud.

* Radio Disney, Disney radio station in the United States

In 2000, Radio Cairo introduced new specialized ( thematic ) channels on its FM station.

* European Radio Project, a consortium of radio broadcasters working on a European public radio station