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Radio

Who Might Market Digital Radio?

July 16, 2010

Where is the business with the marketing savvy, financial muscle and experience in creating compelling, must-see programming (or content)? Well, News International was one such business and it appears to be saying it’s not interested any more.

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Another Radio Era Ends

December 18, 2009

Perhaps it was something about Radio 2 in the 1970s that remains underappreciated because the flares distracted us. A generation of broadcasters deeply integrated audience participation into their shows long before anybody knew what they were doing.

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Commercial Radio Should Shut Up

September 8, 2009

By its very nature Commercial Radio is a business and no business has a right to exist. It has to prove itself worthy of its customers. It has to show it provides something somebody wants.

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Timmy On My Tranny

December 30, 2008

There was something faintly exotic about the mad-cap antics and celebritry filled audio that came out of the radio. I imagine today it would seem tame but our only chart fix was Look-In magazine and, when I discovered it, Smash Hits.

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A Ten Year Old’s Happiest Memory

May 6, 2007

The happiest memory I have is the time I visited the studios of Piccadilly Radio in Manchester in the Easter holidays in April 1981. We were shown around by Julian. We got there ar quarter to four.

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Radio Reflections

January 15, 2006

Ask anybody who’s known me for some time and they’ll eventually mention I can talk about broadcast radio a little too much. I think my true anorak tendancies died a few years ago but radio is, to me, the best of all media rolled into one universally accessible package

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Tribute To Atlantic 252

December 2, 2005

Atlantic 252 tribute site is now online.

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Reduced Commercial Clutter

November 30, 2005

Reduced commercial airtime also makes those ads that are aired stand out more. Won’t advertisers end up paying a premium for this? Maybe not in the short term but I would have thought that in the long run it could work. But then again, what do I know?

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Fined. Big Time.

November 29, 2005

When I was a child, my favourite radio station was Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio. To me, it was the most exciting station in the world. Pete and Geoff, who I mentioned yesterday, started their award-winning partnership on that station.

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All Change At Capital

November 28, 2005

When I first came to London, everybody listened to Capital Radio. Everybody talked about whatever Chris Tarrant did in the morning. That was a very different radio world with much less competition in the London market. Right now, I don’t know anybody who listens

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Danny Baker Shuts Up His Tree House

May 24, 2005

Danny Baker is taking what the station described as “an extended summer holiday” after three years on his BBC London breakfast show, during which he will work on a film script for channel Five.

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Less Clutter On The Air

October 15, 2004

At last somebody in the commercial radio business has noted that one of biggest reasons to turn off isn’t poor music policy, crap jokes or bad station identity – it’s annoying and repetive radio commercials.

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Long Wave Is The Home Of Hit Music

September 1, 2004

Atlantic 252 Long wave was born on 1st September 1989. Today is the 15th anniversary (I think) of the launch of the now defunct Atlantic 252. I only mention this because it strikes me that the radio landscape in the UK has changed dramatically since it launched.

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Digital Radio Lust

June 9, 2004

You will be aware of my love of radio and my delight at Pure’s other products: the Evoke-1 and the Tempus-1. I want a Pure Digital Bug radio. I can’y jsutify it. Is it the look or the features?

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Worthy of Comment

December 12, 2003

The Radio Authority rules that Midland News Association ARE not be allowed to buy Telford FM

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