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Radio Predictions for 2011
gwrbristol
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Any Mystic Megs about out there, what are your predictions for Radio in 2011?
Hopefully Yeovil will finally get Digital Radio and maybe even Muxco will switch on the local multiplex.
Wessex FM becomes part of Midwest Radio
Exeter FM and Palm FM Merge
Total Star falls on its arse
Sara Cox goes back to R1 Breakfast.
Star Bristol becomes The Breeze (hardly a prediction!) but the Coast 106 becomes Jack FM
What are your predictions.....
Hopefully Yeovil will finally get Digital Radio and maybe even Muxco will switch on the local multiplex.
Wessex FM becomes part of Midwest Radio
Exeter FM and Palm FM Merge
Total Star falls on its arse
Sara Cox goes back to R1 Breakfast.
Star Bristol becomes The Breeze (hardly a prediction!) but the Coast 106 becomes Jack FM
What are your predictions.....
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Don't hold your breath. Yours is not the only MUX awating switch-on - something which is now more than 2 years overdue and counting. Check out http://grantgoddardradioblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/digital-radio-uk-meets-bbc-radio.html.
Maybe 2011 will be the year that people finally get it that DAB is not going to take over the UK, let alone the world and that FM will be with us for a good while yet.
Simples!
2. Lincs, meanwhile, will merge two or more of their Yorkshire licenses.
3. Capital FM will be a moderate success in the East Midlands, but will struggle to gain ground on former Galaxy stations.
4. However, it's Gem 106 which will be an instant success story, quickly becoming market leader in the East Midlands, and cleaning up especially in the former Leicester Sound TSA, the only station of the three not to have any presenter continuity into Capital FM.
5. Chris Moyles will leave Radio 1. His replacement will come from the commercial sector.
6. The CN Group will sell off their remaining radio interests.
7. GMG will sell off their Real stations to Global. Heart arrives in the North.
8. The wildcard: Bauer re-brand Kerrang! to Kiss in the West Midlands.
Agree on the above.
Also:
Touch FM Network to be re sold and re-branded as JACK FM
Oxfordshire DAB MUX still not on air by Dec 31st 2011
Hugely high powered pirate appears on long wave in London/S.East as the FM band is so full.
More mergers at the Heart Stations,as the current Regionals are trimmed even more.
Don't think that'll happen in 2011, but will by 2013.
Just another wildcard...
9. Bauer rolls out Heat Radio across the Big City stations.
Absolute Radio expands sport coverage to include Twenty20 cricket and 6 Nations Rugby.
Nick Grimshaw to present Radio 1 Breakfast show.
Steve Wright signs for another 2 years despite speculation of Nicky Campbell taking over slot.
Bacon speculated to leave 5 Live for Radio 2.
Orion Group figures fail to make impact on dominance of 100.7
Heart network breakfast with Scott Mills
Moyles takes a year out from Radio but stays with BBC for 'projects'.
Moyles takes a year out from Radio but stays with BBC for 'projects'.[/QUOTE]
Made me smile that one.
The Goalzone could be coming to Gem 106 at the start of the 2011-12 football season.
Finally Metro Radio could win commentary rights for Newcastle Utd and Sunderland.
Nah! blow these predictions, I never get them right.
Capital 95.8 takes a nosedive
Can realistically see that one happening.
• Jonathan Ross joins Absolute for a Saturday morning slot with the final hour being on Absolute Radio Extra before the football.
• GMG sell their radio assets, there is much interest but the winner is not Bauer or Global.
• Smooth Radio see an increase as a network as a result of more listeners outside of FM areas but the FM areas themselves remain static.
• Gem 106 sees a dip in figures but begins to recover at the end of the year
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• Orion ends business relationship with Global – national sales switch to First Radio Sales and they launch their own West Midlands ‘classic hits’ network with Les Ross on breakfast, The Sports Bar/Goalzone and the rest voicetracked by FM presenters.
• Capital FM stations see a dip in figures, mainly caused by over 35s going elsewhere particularly in Wales and the East Midlands, but begin to recover by the end of the year
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• More station merging and introduction of live networking at Lincs FM Group.
• Robin Galloway joins Bauer for ‘middays’ at Clyde 1 and a weekend network show.
• Moyles surprises everyone by still being on Radio 1 breakfast at the end of the year.
• Tony Blackburn gets another weekly show at Radio 2.
Heart will overtake Magic in London
Bauer relaunches its Scottish AM network as Magic
Capital will enjoy Rajar success in every market
Gem 106 will lose at least 25% of the Heart 106 audience
Radio Hafren in Wales will close before summer
Tiger 8 and Mapperley will still be slogging it out about the BBC Local Radio playlist
Myself and "the usual suspects" will continue to upset the foaming-at-the-mouth anorak brigade on DS
The New Muxco multiplexs will still never be launched
Absolute Radio will launch a 70s Radio Station
Christian O'Connell will take over the Breakfast Radio
Chris Moyles will leave Radio 1
Greg James will move to Drivetime
Chris Evans will refuse to work on Friday again
More Heart Stations will close
Dermot O' Leary Leaves Radio 2 shame
Zoe Ball takes over Dermot O'Leary slot
Terry Wogan decides to leave Radio 2 for good at the end of 2011.
Johnny Vaughan decides to give up Capital breakfast.
Smooth Radio hire other names, and weekends change again.
Alan Carr & Graham Norton Leaves Radio 2.
Paul Gambuccini joins Smooth Radio
Chris Moyles decides to stay for another year at Radio 1.
In Wales the "MuxCo" multiplex launches with help from the Welsh Assembly, but carries only BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio Wales, Real Radio Wales, and Heart Cymru.
In England NOW Digital add Drum Hill to the Nottingham multiplex which sees the arrival of BBC Radio Derby, but the rollout to the rest of Derbys fails to materialise. The Northants and Herts Beds Bucks multiplexes also launch, giving continuous coverage of the M1 from London to just north of Nottingham.
A number of Heart and Capital stations will be yellow carded for being outside of format, but then a format change will follow a few months later, with the exception of Birmingham which will switch to being Birmingham's 102.2FM and while fitting the format will be lose it's FM audience (Capital Radio will continue on DAB) allowing a future format request to pass.
I can't see either of those things happening. I believe 5 Live have a pretty firm grip on the Six Nations and Twenty20 games have never really worked in a big way for talkSPORT, so why would Absolute go for them?
Instead I'm expecting to see both talkSPORT and Absolute have a go at winning partial rights to FA Cup and England games when they come up for renewal (which will either be in the New Year or in early 2012).
BBC Radio 5 Live's current deal expires at the end of the 2011/12 season and since purchasing those rights on an exclusive basis, Radio 5 Live have been publically criticised by the BBC Trust over the way they did that deal. With this in mind, I don't see these rights being sold on an "all or nothing" basis again, which should allow talkSPORT and/or Absolute to pick up some of those matches.
There's more chance of Wave being rebranded to Kiss FM.
KMFM finally revamp their network properly, becoming a CHR network.
GMG flip Real Yorkshire to Smooth to fill FM coverage in the north of England.
Total Star lose Bath to Nova Radio.