This is a timeline of BBC Radio London, a BBC Local Radio station broadcasting to London. Radio London 1970 6 October – BBC Radio London launches. It is the fourth station to launch as part of the BBC's second wave of BBC Local Radio stations and the 12th local station to go on air. 1971 No events. 1972 No events. 1973 8 October – The station faces commercial competition for the first time when the UK's first Independent Local Radio station, LBC, launches. 1974 Robbie Vincent launches a late-night phone-in called Late Night London. 22 November – The first regular programme for the black community Black Londoners launches, presented by Alex Pascall. The programme was initially launched as a trial run of six programmes before becoming a weekly fixture in the schedules. 1975 No events. 1976 12 September – The first edition of London Sounds Eastern is broadcast. and is the first Asian programme to be broadcast in English by the BBC. It replaces two 30-minute shows which had been broadcast in the Bengali, Hindi and Urdu languages. 1977 May – Robbie Vincent moves from Late Night London to the lunchtime show, swapping with David Simmons who moves to the late evening show in August. 1978 8 May – Black Londoners launches as a daily programme, having previously been a weekly Friday night programme. 1979 17 August – After more than five years on air, Late Night London is broadcast for the final time. It is not replaced and from the 20th, weekday programming ends at 10pm. Consequently, BBC Radio 2's output from 10:00 pm to midnight is heard across London on VHF as Radio 2's VHF frequencies are handed over to BBC Radio 1 for the John Peel and Tommy Vance shows. 17 November – BBC Radio London makes major changes to its weekday programming. Home Run, which had been on air since the station's launch, is replaced by London News Desk and a new arts-based programme called Stop, Look, Listen, London Live moves from mid-morning to early afternoon and is replaced in mid-morning by The Robbie Vincent Telephone Programme with Rush Hour extended by an hour. The evening shows are dropped with weeknight programming ending at 8pm instead of 10pm with some of the displaced programmes moving to Sunday afternoons. 1980 No events. 1981 11 February – BBC Radio London begins broadcasting in stereo. The station is relaunched.