BBC ITV. However, the BBC monopoly on radio services would persist until 8 October 1973 when under the control of the newly renamed Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the UK's first Independent local radio station, LBC came on-air in the London area. As a result of the Pilkington Committee report of 1962, in which the BBC was praised for the quality and range of its output, and ITV was very heavily criticised for not providing enough quality programming, the decision was taken to award the BBC a second television channel, BBC2, in 1964, renaming the existing service BBC1. BBC2 used the higher
Top 20 on 20 XM programming and replaced it with another music service called Sonic Tap by DMX. It was announced on January 4, 2012, the Reggie Yates Chart Show will be broadcast starting January 15, 2012 and every Sunday there after from BBC Radio 1 starting at 4pm Eastern. Many subscribers think this is a great step to bring back BBC Radio 1 full-time to the satellites, when it was dropped on August 20, 2011 in favor of Studio 54 Radio. On May 4, 2011 Top 20 on 20 became its own channel once again, playing a mix of both top 40 and