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Published 26 December 2022
A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022
Published 27 February 2019
A decision has been made that makes Independent Local Radio less independent, less local and less good radio, says David Heathcote
Published 31 August 2009
Financial Times: Disney to buy Marvel for $4bn. Imagine this: you are webslinging across the New York city skyline, just like Spiderman. You swing round to see the famous Baxter…
Published 27 April 2009
Government must be bolder on digital radio, says Global chief Stephen Miron You can clearly hear the sound of desperation in Stephen Miron’s voice as he pleads to central government…
Published 6 November 2008
UTV criticises Channel 4 for backing out of digital radio project It may be true that if Channel 4 Radio had been up and running two years ago it could…
Published 15 October 2008
Global Radio to reduce local news output and outsource travel reports Why can’t company PR press releases really say what they mean? Instead of “Global said the aim was to…
Published 16 September 2008
The nationisation of local radio is taking a step up a gear, with Global Radio announcing plans to rebrand 28 of its local stations as Heart
Published 16 July 2008
The “what’s on” wars: BBC Local vs commercial radio Now is not a good time to be involved in commercial UK radio, it seems. Advertisers are trimming their marketing budgets…
Published 2 June 2008
Is it too late to save the Whale? Whatever James Whale himself might say, flogging double-sided bed linen, toasters and gold bangles is still a demotion from his previous radio…
Published 19 May 2008
Fed up with local radio playlists? Blame audience testing In recent years the majority of commercial radio stations have somehow lost all their so-called ‘rough edges’ that once made them…
Published 28 April 2008
Digital radio needs a makeover, says Ofcom According to Peter Davis who is Ofcom’s director of radio and multimedia, DAB just requires a “Freeview-style relaunch” and also claims that “It’s…
Published 11 April 2008
The first signs of new management ideas at GCap Media are slowly being revealed. Whilst the company is not yet part of Global Radio (the move has to be agreed by shareholders first), it would seem highly unlikely that the potential new owners would have not been consulted first on todays announcements.
Published 8 April 2008
Heart and Galaxy local shows cut How local should ‘local radio’ be? The problem is that there’s no straight answer, despite Global Radio chief executive Ashley Tabor assuring us otherwise….
Published 1 April 2008
So it’s finally happened – GCap has succumbed to Global Media, with the company being sold for £375m.
Published 5 March 2008
If you’re one of those people who think that the BBC would be insane to sell off its flagship building, then you might be encouraged by something on Media Guardian this morning.
Published 4 March 2008
Digital radio rift at Channel 4 Channel 4 has a countdown conundrum all of its own to solve, namely whether to press ahead full steam with the launch of three…