In Demand (EMAP Big City)
First thoughts:
Far, FAR better than the rather dated "Music Control" on the other side.
Rich and Luce work well (as they should after so long!)
Nice to hear some station specific links as well.
Not so keen on networking, but at least its decent programming.
Far, FAR better than the rather dated "Music Control" on the other side.
Rich and Luce work well (as they should after so long!)
Nice to hear some station specific links as well.
Not so keen on networking, but at least its decent programming.
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Indeed Scotty_B - EMAP should be hanging their heads in shame for this - fancy Radio City coming from Manchester every evening.
Oh for the great old days of Great Easton Express followed by Downtown.
This pap will be off on Wednesday one assumes when the mighty Reds take on Chelski..
http://www.indemand.fm/
But as someone said, the likes of Phoneboy, Debbie Mac et al who used to do local evening show's were probably much better.
As soon as Bam Bam started on Capital, I have barely listened to this show anyhow. It's pale in comparison - which probably backs up the counter-argument.
In fact, its only a change of names between The UK´s most wanted and In Demand.
That is the kind of show I need since The Mix was axed on satellite and Music Control was only possible online.
There were some problems with the advs. yesterday. Today´s show is perfect and without blanks.
Would have sounded much better than at present with Kevin.
NM was fired after 6+ years at Hallam FM (in a pretty shabby way if the description in his blog of his last night there, is anything to go by) .
In South Yorkshire, Hallam's a strong local brand . It's a shame they've chosen to go for a less local feel.
Don't you know?
Emap, like any radio group, don't care about keeping listeners to their local stations. They only care about maximising their profits.
If they can operate their radio business on the cheap then they keep their shareholders happy - and that's simply all there is to it.
Of course they need help to get away with this, so the idiots at Ofcom let them get away with taking the 'LOCAL' out of LOCAL RADIO.
These stations all did very well on their own originally - to say that they need to do networking to operate effectively is merely a poor excuse for them to get away with producing radio programmes on the cheap.
Same for the other groups too. They don't give two figs about their local audiences - they just care about running a business on the cheap.
It means we all lose out because our listening choices become limited, but Ofcom don't seem to think that matters.
How rather short sighted.
The show is well put together from what I heard. Sure it takes away the localism that Radio City, Viking etc all had but this is what the future of commercial radio is looking like (unfortunately/fortunately).
Though on the GCap side of things:
Music Control on the GCap Network needs a change and a female co-host with Kevin. He's souding good but his show is lacking a bit. Also, wish they would bring back 'Core Control' ..
Anyway, to end this post. Give In Demand a few weeks, some of you may even begin to like it.
I don't think I can be bothered. :rolleyes:
It's not what I want to hear.
Zorb-Furble has a good point.
I liked the local feel of Hallam, especially the evening shows which included a phone-in. That went and now so has the identity of the station. I would rather listen to my iPod and automate my own choice of music rather than theirs. Shuffle stylie.
I think it's lazy of them to make everything sound the same. It doesn't show much imagination. If they can't be bothered why should I ?
I won't listen to much Hallam anymore. Theres better things to listen too.
In my opinion as a listener they've ruined most of Metro with those triple plays. Brian Moore's afternoon show is ruined with those stupid triple plays, it's such a change listening to him in the mornings when he covers, he is actually allowed to talk! - and he's a tremendous listen then, so wasted in the evenings. Mark Thorburn (another great presenter) is also sadly limited to what he can squeeze in. Tis a true shame.
Can anyone remember whether it carried on beyond 10pm?
I used to be a big fan of Tim Finlay who did the early evening slot:
www.adamfi.co.uk/Tim_Finlay.mp3
(1988 recording)
The legendary James Whale late night phone-in was another of example of northern networking from that era. It started off on Radio Aire in Leeds but later was networked across onto Red Rose Radio in Preston. Therefore reasonable mono reception of the show was available in much of Yorkshire and the North West.
Therefore, I used to listen to networked programming right through from 7pm to 2am in 1988!
www.adamfi.co.uk/Yorkshire_Radio_Network_1.mp3
They even had a Yorkshire Radio Network news jingle:
www.adamfi.co.uk/Yorkshire_Radio_Network_2.mp3
I'm not sure who, or if it was on after 10pm. I remember Tim Finlay on it. I think i remember Simon Hirst on overnights & Bruce Edwards aswell around 1993/1994 time as i used to work overnights & listen.
Did it come from Hallam or Viking?
Yeah James Whale on Radio Aire in the 80's. Does anyone remember the "Whaley rap" that he did & released it in, i don't know, around 1988/89 ish? I still have it on 7 inch vinyl.
The mega sound of Radio Aire!
The initial YRN weekday lineup was:
8pm - Tim Finlay
12am - Steve Tong
3am - Les Smith
Weekend presenters included Paul Massey and Diana Luke.
The ads were all networked too (which is why you heard an ad mentioning Radio Hallam on Pennine's 102.5 transmitter). In the studio Viking's ads had blue cart labels, Hallam's green and Pennine's red and each break contained ads from each station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Radio_Network
Sounds like the YRN was originally from Hallam but transferred to Viking when they became part of the group.
10 hours of networking a day for a heritage station sounds controversial now - had Digital Spy existed then, would we have complained?
In later years, following Hallam's move to Herries Road, a networked service called Night Tracks was broadcast from Sheffield. The networked AM service (Classic Gold) was also relocated from Hull to Sheffield around the same time.
Damn, Wikipedia! I've just going to make an edit...