[omnidirectional]

When there's a "big announcement" on air, it's something that the average listener will find interesting like a concert or event.

[DiandalScotland]

Originally Posted by Genesys

I heard one of the regional guys say it's something to do with Love Music Live...

so you reckon smooth to become heart instead of real ?

i reckon real will become heart and gold will become smooth

[bluesdiamond]

Heart use Love Music Live
Thought Smooth was Love Live Music

[DJDave]

Thought Smooth was "Love Life Love Music"

Yeah it's something to do with artists I heard it when flicking through stations before.

[a516]

Originally Posted by itstheradio

Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up. Obviously some old news was tweeted and then retweeted by mistake. My understanding of the whole process is much better due to your explanation - kudos!

Not that old - the OFT website shows it was published on Friday 26th. The tweets I saw linked to an old story and not the latest development.

[Spikey2]

Originally Posted by in my ears

you are either a deluded individual or the worlds biggest pisstaker

There is no pisstaker about it love
Scottie McClue is such an investment for any station
He creates a talkability factor wherever He goes
No doubt He is enjoying some time off after all these years of being the most sought after and successful phone in host in the business it must be tiring work having to sift through knee deep piles of highly lucrative contracts for Him to consider

[radiodad]

Originally Posted by Spikey2

There is no pisstaker about it love
Scottie McClue is such an investment for any station
He creates a talkability factor wherever He goes
No doubt He is enjoying some time off after all these years of being the most sought after and successful phone in host in the business it must be tiring work having to sift through knee deep piles of highly lucrative contracts for Him to consider

Scottie used to create a talk ability factor, talk hosts have to change there act like Iain Lee and Nick Abbot have or else they get very boring. Scottie didn't change his act and just keeps churning out the same old, now apart from die hard fans and anoraks no one else cares as a result he has no work.

Hosts that don't do news based phone in's can only do so much then they need to change and evolve or they become boring like Scottie.

[dpb]

Originally Posted by Spikey2

There is no pisstaker about it love
Scottie McClue is such an investment for any station
He creates a talkability factor wherever He goes
No doubt He is enjoying some time off after all these years of being the most sought after and successful phone in host in the business it must be tiring work having to sift through knee deep piles of highly lucrative contracts for Him to consider

You are funny Archie.

In the written word only of course.

[p_c_u_k]

Ok, let's be simple about this.

The majority of people don't care about radio in the way we do. They listen for mild diversion while they get on with their everyday lives. You know, in the way we don't consider how trains get us to work everyday.

They will probably listen to breakfast radio, at a push, to give them the get up and go to get up and running. People's minds work differently first thing in the morning. That's it. Otherwise, they just want some decent chat (at a minimum, no umms and errs) and decent music to get them through the day.

Global isn't interested in being market leader in any market. They just want a clear audience they can market to advertisers UK-wide (mums, 25-45). Within the rules, that is their right. Unlike with banks, it will not result in the breakdown of an entire country. It leaves a big gap for proper, local (ish) commercial radio, which hopefully Bauer will exploit.

That will unfortunately result in very talented people throughout the UK losing their jobs, or being relegated. It has ever been thus. Yet, the most talented will find a place somewhere. Indeed, in the GWR shake-up, they found a place for a young Chris Moyles (who then went on to cause chaos for commercial radio some years down the line - maybe they've learned their lesson).

There will be some people who are a great listen who will lose out (and I immediately include Real Radio Scotland's Steve McKenna in this). But there will also be a lot of absolute, autopilot shite cleared out of UK radio. So hey ho.

[suffolkblue]

Dinky doo Scottie is that you. If it is pm me please thanks.

[acefee311]

When the new Real Radio (global) network begins on Monday, will all the Real Radio websites from Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales and North East merge with the North West website as they are the only ones with a full schedule?
My thought would have been there would be a page with all the breakfast presenters and a page with all the drive presenters.
Just seems weird the other site not having the schedules on there own websites.

[Black Label]

Originally Posted by p_c_u_k

Ok, let's be simple about this.

The majority of people don't care about radio in the way we do. They listen for mild diversion while they get on with their everyday lives. You know, in the way we don't consider how trains get us to work everyday.

They will probably listen to breakfast radio, at a push, to give them the get up and go to get up and running. People's minds work differently first thing in the morning. That's it. Otherwise, they just want some decent chat (at a minimum, no umms and errs) and decent music to get them through the day.

Global isn't interested in being market leader in any market. They just want a clear audience they can market to advertisers UK-wide (mums, 25-45). Within the rules, that is their right. Unlike with banks, it will not result in the breakdown of an entire country. It leaves a big gap for proper, local (ish) commercial radio, which hopefully Bauer will exploit.

That will unfortunately result in very talented people throughout the UK losing their jobs, or being relegated. It has ever been thus. Yet, the most talented will find a place somewhere. Indeed, in the GWR shake-up, they found a place for a young Chris Moyles (who then went on to cause chaos for commercial radio some years down the line - maybe they've learned their lesson).

There will be some people who are a great listen who will lose out (and I immediately include Real Radio Scotland's Steve McKenna in this). But there will also be a lot of absolute, autopilot shite cleared out of UK radio. So hey ho.

Being 'number 1 in the market' isn't always what its cracked up to be.

Real Scotland managed it by a country mile half a decade ago. But they did it by spending silly money. The incremental bit of the audience that made Real 'market leading' was only there for the football phone-in, the big prizes and (to some extent at least) Robin Galloway. This audience wasn't particularly loyal and has melted away like snow off a dyke in recent years.....50,000, no less, in the most recent survey, going 'just like that' when the football was taken off. In a nutshell, it wasn't worth having in the first place. Surely far better to focus a cost effective networked service on a smaller, but more stable, and more demographically attractive audience than piling on lots of male heavy C2DEs wanting football chat and money?

As for radio presenters losing jobs, the industry is akin to mining and steelworking of 30 years ago or so. There were lots of very good miners and steelworkers too but just like radio, the industry they were in was hopelessly inefficient, and similrly now there is just far less demand for that particular skill than there one was......end of.

[thelem]

Originally Posted by acefee311

When the new Real Radio (global) network begins on Monday, will all the Real Radio websites from Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales and North East merge with the North West website as they are the only ones with a full schedule?

I doubt they'll be investing much in the technology behind the websites, as the plan is to redirect them all to heart.co.uk as soon as they are allowed.

[p_c_u_k]

I think both stations are now in a commercially viable position.

Clyde has a huge heritage, and still managed to maintain decent figures some years back when Real was spending silly money and Clyde itself was sounding abysmal. It's pretty much been proven that Real has to spend silly money to get an audience Clyde can almost get by default at times.

Real is almost in the position of starting to build up a small heritage audience - those aged about 25-35 who are used to having another choice on the dial and weren't massive fans of Clyde in the first place - but that's nothing compared to being one of the original big five and a mainstay in people's lives for decades.

So Heart will come in and at relatively low cost nick a decent-sized audience of 25-45 year old mums who don't care about localness or talk away from breakfast but just want reliable decent songs to sing along to (erk) throughout the day.

In a best of both worlds situation Ewen and Cat will continue to be fantastic and Paul Harper will play a safe pair of hands but less talk role for the drive home. I actually think it will gain listeners when everything settles down, although Real could be in trouble until the transition happens as rebroadcasting Real Radio north-west but hiding the locations isn't going to cut it. It's going to sound alien from 10am this morning.

Strangely, Clyde has a trickier game to play. It has to appeal to all, which isn't as easy to sell to advertisers. Nevertheless, I suspect local advertisers will be happy with a mass-market, broad audience, and will have more opportunity to get involved in those hated advertising-led features in Clyde than they would at Heart. The usual newspapers or motor dealers will sponsor the appointment to listen football phone-ins, and national advertisers will recognise Clyde is still number one and that they need to spread their cash.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more pan-Scottish networking from Bauer's Scottish stations as they need to compete to some degree on costs, but also that the real fight is to sound Scottish. The whole Clyde region is not going to unite behind Glasgow as it's far too big (a lesson learned during the short-lived and insane Clyde 1 Glasgow phase). At the same time if you're talking about places in Inverness or Aberdeen at peak-time it's way too far away to be relatable. I wonder if a fairly generic, Scottish-sounding networked 10am-2pm show is on its way though.

[Radio Expert]

Heart isn't designed to be a market leader. It's designed to tick certain boxes. If they get ticked then the brand is a success.

[MartinRosen]

If this is Scottie, he doesn't even know when he was born!

[jimbo]

I am not well up on company law, so not sure if this is a normal state of arrairs but

Companies House has just reported that an auditor of Global Radio (and associated companies) has resigned. The document is available at Companies House.

Not sure if this is part of restructuring or what but if anyone can advise it would be helpful. Thanks.

[MattJW]

Originally Posted by jimbo

I am not well up on company law, so not sure if this is a normal state of arrairs but

Companies House has just reported that an auditor of Global Radio (and associated companies) has resigned. The document is available at Companies House.

Not sure if this is part of restructuring or what but if anyone can advise it would be helpful. Thanks.

Could you post the link?

[andys corner]

Capital nw exists already it broadcasts from Salford on 102

[casaboy22]

Originally Posted by andys corner

Capital nw exists already it broadcasts from Salford on 102

Not the North West though is it? It's a Manchester-wide licence broadcasting from the Sunley building in the city centre, admittedly giving it good coverage but nothing like the coverage the regional stations get from Winter Hill.

[Martin Phillp]

Originally Posted by casaboy22

Not the North West though is it? It's a Manchester-wide licence broadcasting from the Sunley building in the city centre, admittedly giving it good coverage but nothing like the coverage the regional stations get from Winter Hill.

It has NW coverage on MXR, which will close next year, unless Global decide to move the station onto the Bauer owned local multiplexes outside Manchester. It should move to CE Manchester which Global co-own with Bauer.

[jimbo]

Originally Posted by MattJW

Could you post the link?

The item relating to the resignation of an auditor was placed on the Companies House Website today.

There is no link except for the info site itself:

http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/9e...essCompanyInfo

From here you can enter the name of the company and there are a couple of links on the right hand side on each company page.

[hanssolo]

Originally Posted by Martin Phillp

It has NW coverage on MXR, which will close next year, unless Global decide to move the station onto the Bauer owned local multiplexes outside Manchester. It should move to CE Manchester which Global co-own with Bauer.

http://radiotoday.co.uk/2012/09/regi...exes-to-close/

Global Radio say their investment in the DAB platform continues with local and national services. They have just invested a total of £15m committing to providing their stations on more localised multiplexes owned by Bauer Media, for the next 12 years.

Originally Posted by jimbo

I am not well up on company law, so not sure if this is a normal state of arrairs but

Companies House has just reported that an auditor of Global Radio (and associated companies) has resigned. The document is available at Companies House.

Not sure if this is part of restructuring or what but if anyone can advise it would be helpful. Thanks.

There was a warning back in 2009 which might be related?
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/905069/
There seems to be sadly a lot of people now leaving whats left of GMG
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2012/11/doze...adio-stations/

[SouthCity]

Originally Posted by jimbo

I am not well up on company law, so not sure if this is a normal state of arrairs but

Companies House has just reported that an auditor of Global Radio (and associated companies) has resigned. The document is available at Companies House.

Not sure if this is part of restructuring or what but if anyone can advise it would be helpful. Thanks.

It's a statutory requirement when a company switches auditors that the the outgoing auditors have to file a notice of resignation at Companies House (and the registered office).

Most companies switch auditors because they receive a lower quote for audit fees, usually nothing more than that. The resignation form isn't available for viewing yet on the Companies House website.

[jimbo]

Thanks for that. I thought it might be part of a normal practice but thanks for clearing that up.