What was renamed as BBC Radio 4 in 1967?
BBC Radio 4 complaints. Radio 4 has also been frequently criticised for being too middle class and being of little interest to non-white listeners.. BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a spoken-word radio channel owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is Gwyneth Williams, and the station is part of BBC Radio and the "BBC Radio" department. The station is broadcast from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Radio 4 is the principal radio channel in the UK for: It is the second most popular domestic radio station,
BBC Radio 4 September 1967, when the BBC renamed many of its domestic radio stations, in response to the challenge of offshore radio. It moved to long wave in November 1978, taking over the 200 kHz frequency (1500 meters) previously held by Radio 2, and later moved to 198 kHz as a result of international agreements aimed at avoiding interference (all UK AM/MW/LW frequencies are divisible by 9) and to mark the station becoming a fully national service for the first time the station officially became known as Radio 4 UK, a title that remained until mid 1984. For a time during the