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What stations left that don't network at all 24/7! except the chart perhaps
Bill Clinton
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Thinking recently that I don't actually have a favourite station anymore because they all network.
Some stations are still quite bland, but it's good to have a full on service from them where they are always "there" and haven't switched off to local listeners by going out of town.
I think
Chester's Dee106.3
Liverpool's Juice FM
Lakeland Radio (which are about to add Keswich on 101.4)
Lincs FM
Pirate FM (Cornwall)
Cheshire's Silk FM
Nevis Radio (Fort William, Highlands)
KMFM in Kent (but they did merge several individual KMFM stations, it's still local to Kent)
Star Radio North East (same story as KMFM)
I could be wrong with some of these but I hope I'm not
any more?
In some cases there is non stop music, and I think then I'd prefer them to join up with another station if that's all they are going to do, but only in that case. And anything big enough such as a national chart show feels quite worthy of dropping the local output but most other things don't, big name celebrity interviews that are featured on the likes of "In Demand" could be given to local presenters to play, and different group DJ's could do the interviews.
Some stations are still quite bland, but it's good to have a full on service from them where they are always "there" and haven't switched off to local listeners by going out of town.
I think
Chester's Dee106.3
Liverpool's Juice FM
Lakeland Radio (which are about to add Keswich on 101.4)
Lincs FM
Pirate FM (Cornwall)
Cheshire's Silk FM
Nevis Radio (Fort William, Highlands)
KMFM in Kent (but they did merge several individual KMFM stations, it's still local to Kent)
Star Radio North East (same story as KMFM)
I could be wrong with some of these but I hope I'm not
any more?
In some cases there is non stop music, and I think then I'd prefer them to join up with another station if that's all they are going to do, but only in that case. And anything big enough such as a national chart show feels quite worthy of dropping the local output but most other things don't, big name celebrity interviews that are featured on the likes of "In Demand" could be given to local presenters to play, and different group DJ's could do the interviews.
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Not as much any more. Richard Lyon, the only full time live presenter, Andy Marsh and Ash Taylor are the only Grimsby natives - all other presenters come from well outside the area and record programmes in Lincoln (as the station is sharing premeses with Lincs FM as a cost cutting measure). If you listen to others shows, they struggle to place name landmarks to nearby streets and pronounce them correctly. 'brighowgate' is the best test! The old MYL stations share networked programmes over the weekend and H&M share a networked drive time show.
IOW Radio is local 24/7 other than a VT from Sussex and it doesn't take chart.
I don't think any UKRD stations do networking other than BT40.
Do Compass programmes not come from Lincoln? Very local. Most small stations voice track if they don't network and some voice track from other sites which in my view is worse than networking. I understand the business reasons for it but stations that do it are no more local than stations that network.
Connect FM share programmes with Southend Radio and Chelmsford Radio.
I was not aware of that!
Gem106 doesn't take any networking, as far as I know it's all done from Nottingham.
2BR and The Bee in Lancashire share the same building but don't network or take the chart show.
Apart from some voice tracking from the west mids.
Wave 102 (Dundee) http://www.wave102.co.uk/homepage
Original 102 (Aberdeen) http://www.originalfm.com/homepage
Kingdom FM (Fife) http://www.kingdomfm.co.uk/frontend/index.cfm
Your FM (Dumbarton) http://www.yourradiofm.com/
That's rubbish. Kestrel FM (south) TX covering Alton and the surrounding area was shut down to take networking from The Breeze Southampton.
Does The Bay voicetrack overnights? - its not so clear in the public file. I can't imagine Vic McGlynn on Saturday overnight, then on Saturday mid-morning and back on Saturday night. Then she's back at 1 am on Sunday morning for 5 hours!
That would mean that between Sat-Sun Victoria is on for 17 hours! - Surely its nearly all voicetracked.
Why do they do presenter-led overnights anyway? - I can't imagine there being that many people in Lancaster working overnights...
No one said anything about voicetracking, which bits come from the West Mids?