This is a list of events in 2024 relating to radio in the United Kingdom.
Events January 1 January – Launch of Bournemouth One. The station begins with a welcome message from Tobias Ellwood, the MP for Bournemouth East. Josh Tate, believed to be the UK's youngest newsreader, presents his own New Year's Day show on Radio Exe. Former Radio 2 presenter Steve Madden joins Portsmouth's Victory Radio to present a late night weekend show. Alex Hall presents her final show for BBC Radio Tees after 35 years in local radio, 18 of them with Radio Tees. 2 January – Audible Always, producers of the internationally syndicated programme Selector Radio, confirms that Radio 1 presenter Sian Eleri will take over as presenter of the weekly show. Bauer Radio's Greatest Hits Radio South experimentally drops local news bulletins from its Salisbury frequencies in favour of a mixed Salisbury/Hampshire regional news service from south Hampshire-based Wave 105, which it later says was done because it felt a city specific bulletin for Salisbury "sounded jarring and parochial against industry-leading shows such as Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo". Local news is restored to Salisbury in March after a review following a bulletin containing a story about Portsmouth, an hour's drive from Salisbury. 3 January – Pete Black announces he is leaving the role of Bauer Media Audio UK's Director of Music after 18 years with the company. 4 January – Paddy Power and Virgin Radio sign a 12-month deal to sponsor The Ryan Tubridy Show. 5 January – Jason Rosam presents his final edition of BBC Radio London early breakfast show. Speaking to the At Home with Vick and Jordan podcast, Ant & Dec discuss how they almost became presenters of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show after being asked to record a pilot. The show was eventually presented by Sara Cox. 6 January – Danielle Perry succeeds Angellica Bell as presenter of the Saturday mid-morning show on Scala Radio. 7 January – Stephen Mangan joins Classic FM to present a Sunday afternoon show. Boom Radio announces plans to launch a sister station named Boom Rock in February. The station will become the third in the Boom family. 8 January – Dan Walker replaces Tim Lihoreau as presenter of Classic FM's breakfast show. The change sees the programme move from its previous slot of 6am to 9am to a new slot of 6.30am to 10am. Lihoreau, who had hosted the programme for the previous 12 years, becomes the new presenter of the station's weekend breakfast show as part of wider changes to the weekend schedule. Preston-based Beat Radio is rebranded as Juice Radio, and appears on 103.2FM. Happy Radio have hired Fiona Sadler and Alex Roland to present a weekday evening and overnight show respectively. 10 January – Bauer announces that Free Radio, Gem Radio, Hallam FM, Lincs FM, Metro Radio, Pulse 1, Radio City, Rock FM, Signal 1, TFM, Viking FM and Wave Swansea will all be rebranding to Hits Radio from April. The stations will continue to have local breakfast output, but will have networked programming at other times. Local news, advertising and traffic updates will also continue to air. BBC Radio Scotland confirms that Martin Geissler will present the Monday to Wednesday editions of its Drivetime programme following the departure of John Beattie. 11 January – HSBC UK have extended their sponsorship of Global's The News Agents podcast for a further 12 months. 14 January – Comedian Tom Allen joins Virgin Radio to present a weekly Sunday afternoon show. Carol Vorderman joins LBC to present a Sunday afternoon show from 4pm to 7pm, having previously provided cover for other LBC presenters. Debut of Smooth Radio's new television advertising campaign featuring famous UK landmarks and its new strapline, "Always the best music". 15 January – The Intellectual Property Office launches a consultation on how record labels and artists from overseas should receive royalties for material broadcast in the UK. 17 January – Kiss have signed a 12-month deal with Costa Coffee to sponsor their breakfast shows on Kiss, Kisstory and Kiss Fresh. 18 January – Following a consultation, Ofcom gives approval for BBC Radio Cymru 2 to become a fully fledged radio station. 19 January – Sunshine 855 switches off its medium wave frequency on 855 kHz, having been granted permission to do so by Ofcom due to the expensive cost of maintaining the transmitters and the small number of listeners who listen on medium wave. 20 January – DJ Ace presents his final R&B show on BBC 1Xtra after 21 years with the network; Chuckie is lined up to replace him. 22 January – BBC 1Xtra launches a second show produced from Birmingham, with DJ Day Day presenting weekday mid-mornings, also in place of DJ Ace. The relaunched version of Laser 558 becomes available on Freeview on Channel 277 via the radio portal. Scarborough's Coast and County Radio is found to be in breach of Ofcom's rules following a showbiz news report about the health of Barry Humphries in which it was reported he was being treated in hospital three days after his death. 25 January – Times Radio announces a 12-month deal with Nationwide Building Society to sponsor their breakfast show. 27 January – British band No Guidnce begin a four-week residence guest presenting the R&B show on BBC 1Xtra. 29 January – BBC Radio 2 launches the 2024 series of its Radio 2 Piano Room feature, with Bruce Hornsby as the first guest. 30 January – The Media Bill, which proposes changes to radio in the United Kingdom such as reducing regulations for commercial radio and improving access through smart devices, passes its third reading in the House of Commons. 31 January – The rock band Nothing but Thieves play an exclusive gig for Radio X listeners at London's O2 Forum Kentish Town. BBC Radio Solent is scheduled to air the final edition of its indie and alternative music show, Stereo Underground, but drops it from the schedule at the last minute without explanation. The programme will continue to air after moving to the Mixcloud app.
February 1 February – RAJAR figures are published for the final quarter of 2023, and indicate that there were 39.1 million weekly listeners to radio, an increase from 38.1 during the previous quarter. GB News Radio increases its average listener base to 430,000, while listeners to Boom Radio are down slightly on the previous quarter to 627,000. 2 February – Ofcom revokes the small-scale DAB licence award for Warminster, Devizes & Trowbridge after the bidder awarded the licence said they could not launch a service within the 18 month timeframe specified by the award. 6 February – Talksport has secured a two-year deal with Rugby League Commercial for broadcast rights for men's and women's Super League rugby matches. Times Radio rebrands itself as The Election Station ahead of a general election, expected some time in 2024. 7 February – The BBC announces plans to launch four new radio stations on DAB+, including a Radio 2 spin-off playing music from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and a Radio 1 spin-off playing music from the past two decades. The plans are objected to by the commercial radio sector, which describes the new stations as unnecessary. Global announces plans to launch The Sports Agents, a sister programme to its The News Agents podcast, which will be presented by Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 8 February – LBC and Classic FM are launched on DAB+ in the Channel Islands. Winchester DAB Ltd relaunches the Winchester small-scale DAB network after the previous operator went into receivership in November 2023. 11 February – BBC Radio 6 Music airs its final programme to be broadcast from Wogan House. 12 February – Suzie McGuire joins Nation Radio Scotland to present weekday evenings as Nation Broadcasting expands its Scottish content. Anna Sedgley announces she is leaving her post as Group Chief Financial Officer at Bauer Media after three years in the role. 13 February – At 5.00pm BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live break the news of the death of radio presenter Steve Wright, who died on 12 February. The announcement is followed by on-air tributes from colleagues throughout the radio industry. 14 February – KISS announces that DJ Ace will join to present a Sunday evening R&B show. Boom Rock is launched, with a station ID featuring the voice of Tommy Vance, who died in 2005, but whose voice has been recreated using artificial intelligence with permission from his family. 16 February – Jordan North confirms he will be leaving Radio 1 after ten years; Jamie Laing will succeed him as co-presenter of the weekday drivetime show alongside Vick Hope. The Radio Today website reports that Oxis Media, which owns the Jack FM brand, plans to relaunch the station in the UK at a time of its choosing. Smart Outdoor Media takes an equity stake in north east DAB station Frisk Radio. 17 February – Gary Davies presents a special edition of Pick of the Pops paying tribute to Steve Wright, with charts from 1980 and 1996, the years Wright joined Radios 1 and 2 respectively. JLS band member Aston Merrygold stands in for Ashley Roberts on Heart 00s while Roberts is on holiday. 18 February – Liza Tarbuck presents a special edition of Sunday Love Songs on Radio 2 in tribute to Steve Wright. Gavin Wallace joins Nation Radio Scotland to present a Sunday show. Paul Gambaccini presents the final BBC Radio 2 programme to be broadcast live from Wogan House. 19 February – Elizabeth Clark is appointed director of the newly created BBC radio production hub for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Roman Kemp announces he is leaving Capital Breakfast after a decade presenting on the Capital network. 20 February – The team behind the relaunched Laser 558 have obtained a licence to broadcast on DAB, and will launch on DAB in Wiltshire and Basingstoke. Heart announces a sponsorship deal with the National Lottery to sponsor its "Make Me a Millionaire" competition. Greatest Hits Radio announces its first Greatest Hits Radio cruise in association with Ambassador Cruises, which will take passengers on a cruise from London to Hamburg along the River Elbe in October, and feature regular presenters Ken Bruce, Martin Kemp, Jenny Powell and Kate Thornton. GB News announces it has ended its radio advertising and sponsorship contract with Bauer Media, and that it is launching its own advertising sales operation. 21 February – Capital confirms that Jordan North will replace Roman Kemp on Capital Breakfast from April. Community stations Blackburn's 102.2 and Takeover Radio 106.9 are found to have breached Ofcom's key commitments over output. 22 February – Lyca Radio is announced as the official partner of the 22nd Asian Achievers Awards, replacing Sunrise Radio. 23 February – BBC Radio 2 broadcasts the final edition of the 2024 series of Radio 2 Piano Room. 24 February – Graham Norton announces he is leaving his weekend shows at Virgin Radio with effect from the following day; Virgin boss Mike Cass confirms Norton will still present on the station. 25 February – At 8am, Erewash Sound presenter Richard Dawson begins a sponsored broadcast marathon that is scheduled to end at midday on 27 February. Noreen Khan presents her final regular programme for BBC Asian Network. 26 February – Martha Kearney announces she will leave Radio 4's Today programme later in the year. Virgin Radio announces that the Kim Wilde 80s Show will be broadcast on Virgin Radio 80s Plus on Sundays from 10am–2pm. 27 February – Bauer announces plans to rebrand Wave 105 as Greatest Hits Radio South Coast and Pirate FM as Greatest Hits Radio Cornwall. Ofcom approves 14 applications for funds from the Community Radio Fund, with community stations receiving a share of £250,000. Stephen Miron announces he is standing down as Global's Group Chief Executive in March 2025. 28 February –