6 January - Les Ross takes over from David Hamilton as breakfast show presenter on Birmingham's Saga 105.7FM.
11 February - John Peters presents the first programme (the breakfast show) on Saga 106.6 FM in Nottingham, making it his third station launch. He launched Radio Trent in 1975 and GEM-AM in 1988.
17 February – A breakfast presenter who was sacked from Century 106 after playing a spoof song about the Taleban in the wake of the September 11 attacks has settled his case for unfair dismissal, it is reported.
3 May - BBC Radio 1 cancels the first day of its One Big Weekend at Heaton Park, Manchester due to poor weather. However, the second day of the event goes ahead as scheduled.
5 June - Radio 2 presenter Johnnie Walker announces that he will be taking time off air to undergo treatment after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. During his time away the show is presented by Stuart Maconie and Noel Edmonds (who made a brief return to radio).
10 October - Lesley Douglas is appointed Controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music.
28 November - Some of the BBC's radio and television services, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Five Live and BBC News 24, are blacked out by a power cut and a fire alert.
4 December - Broadcasters John Peel, Chris Tarrant, John Dunn, Sue MacGregor and Douglas Cameron are inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame.
