RADIO TONIGHT

Lord Fowler: “There will be a public outcry if we get the radio digital switchover wrong. There could be a very big row indeed about this.”

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:52:46 +0000

Lord Fowler: “There will be a public outcry if we get the radio digital switchover wrong. There could be a very big row indeed about this.”

Mike Toolan back in the papers for his love life..

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:57:34 +0000

Mike Toolan back in the papers for his love life..:

The estranged wife of Tina O’Brien’s new boyfriend Mike Toolan has torn into the couple over their fling. Emma and DJ Mike, 36, are divorcing but the mum of two claims a reconciliation was on the cards……

Moira Stuart's £1,700 a show deal

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:40:05 +0000

Moira Stuart's £1,700 a show deal:

Moira Stuart has been dragged into a row over BBC newsreaders’ pay, amid rumours she receives £1,700 a day to work on Chris Evans’s Radio 2 show.

DAB radio receiver sales: never let facts get in the way of a big number

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:33:13 +0000

DAB radio receiver sales: never let facts get in the way of a big number

BBC's Tim Davie: I'm passionate about 6 Music, too – but it has to go

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:12:32 +0000

BBC's Tim Davie: I'm passionate about 6 Music, too – but it has to go

Lily Allen: Why we must save BBC 6 Music

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:20:17 +0000

Lily Allen: Why we must save BBC 6 Music

Has BBC 6 Music fallen on deaf ears? Not if the listeners have a say…

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:16:28 +0000

Has BBC 6 Music fallen on deaf ears? Not if the listeners have a say…

Former Radio 1 DJ in jail rant

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:33:44 +0000

Former Radio 1 DJ in jail rant:

A FORMER Radio 1 DJ said his human rights are being “trampled on” after his sixth conviction for abusing young boys….

Solid Gold; Solid crap more like...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:10:00 +0000

Solid Gold; Solid crap more like...

JACK fm goes on TV!

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:58:02 +0000

JACK fm goes on TV!

Smooth Radio targets the TOGGS with newspaper ad

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:26:31 +0000

Smooth Radio targets the TOGGS with newspaper ad

Former TLRC station logos get the UKRD treatment..

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:04:16 +0000

Former TLRC station logos get the UKRD treatment..

CANADA: DAB radio “is no longer a replacement for analogue AM and FM services”

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:39:34 +0000

CANADA: DAB radio “is no longer a replacement for analogue AM and FM services”

The UK Radio Aid Question

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:19:47 +0000

The UK Radio Aid Question

BBC in new 'Sachsgate': N-Dubz rapper leaves abusive message on Radio 1 listener's phone

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:49:48 +0000

BBC in new 'Sachsgate': N-Dubz rapper leaves abusive message on Radio 1 listener's phone:

The Daily Mail tries to create another sensational headline out of a BBC Radio phone-call incident.

We can’t see it being as big as the last one, mind.

OMG, they killed CityTalk!

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:13:21 +0000

christopherengland:

Bloody hell. Daytime CityTalk here in Liverpool is now a complete joke. They’ve sacked all the talking presenters and a typical daytime now looks like this:

Roughly top of each hour o’clock – it’s never exact top of the hour because it’s slowly getting longer because nobody is actually running anything to clock time – so, at :00 you get a 4 minute news then 4 minutes of sport tailed with weather, but no travel anywhere. At around :08 the bulletin finishes and there’s a pause and then a random song starts. That segues into another song, and then a 1 minute package called The Fix which is all entertainment gossip. Then a pause and a song. None of the songs are ever ‘announced’. There’s nobody there to tell you what’s been played. The songs are just interlude music really. Then some commercials and at roughly :20 everything that happened from :00 for 8 minutes happens all over again. It’s exactly the same recording. Different songs to the ones previously played follow, there’s the same Fix package, song and then the recording of what happened at :00 starts all over again once more at approximately :40.

Again, since the songs are not the exact length needed to hit exactly 20 minutes, the news start time gradually shifts forward. So, what was :00 in the first hour is :02 the next hour and, say, :04 the third hour. How embarrassing is that?

The 4 minute news and 4 minute sport and weather is re-recorded every hour, although the packages/interviews within it don’t seem to be changed. And The Fix package being played 3 times an hour every hour remains exactly the same all day.

I don’t get it. How on earth, or why on earth would anybody want to tune to this?

Surely Bauer should just hand back the licence to Ofcom, or give somebody else an opportunity to run a proper talking radio station.

Jelli - 100% user-controlled radio

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:23:00 +0000

Jelli - 100% user-controlled radio:

Here’s an interesting idea. A radio station actually controlled by listeners.

Not just a few button presses by random website visitors (dabbl?) but a live situation where all users log-in and push for which songs they want to keep or bin off next.

The website is a little bit clunky, and it seems very Australian at the moment, but who knows, maybe the start of something big?

Chris Evans: Getting Up Early for Britain

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:11:16 +0000

Chris Evans: Getting Up Early for Britain

Wake up... It's a Beautiful Morning...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:10:00 +0000

Wake up... It's a Beautiful Morning...:

One of many blogs about the new Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2

Global Radio websites ignore Manchester snow

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:00 +0000

Global Radio websites ignore Manchester snow:

Blooger James Cridland took a selection of Manchester radio websites and found out which ones covered the heavy snow situation, and which ones totally ignored it.