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Jonathan Ross doesn't get much radio work these days, and I don't think his TV ratings for ITV are exactly stellar. He seems a likely name for the new Virgin Radio.<snip>
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I think they may well approach Nick Abbot, but Global may make it clear there's no place for him at LBC if he goes there, especially if Virgin will be competing with a rebooted national XFM. <snip> Quote:
Well who cares if there are any celebrities presenting programmes? I certainly hope we don't have the likes of Danny Baker etc on the new Virgin Radio.
Let's give some new radio people a chance instead of all these trumped up celebrities. He's marmite but as a liker I think radio is the best medium for him. |
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Well who cares if there are any celebrities presenting programmes? I certainly hope we don't have the likes of Danny Baker etc on the new Virgin Radio.
Let's give some new radio people a chance instead of all these trumped up celebrities. Magic took Richard Allinson for drive rather than a celibrity from TV. Hopefully the new Virgin will go for radio people who know their music, but "celebrity" Craig Charles seems to know soul music and doing well at 6 music and R2 cover. The ammount of launch funding for presenters and promotion may depend on the UTV restructure announcement next week. If they go for someone well known and experienced like Ross or Moyles (if the news on XFM turns out to be just a rumour) they will expect a good fee for getting up early. |
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TV and radio are totally different skills. TV presenters generally make bad radio presenters imo.
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TV and radio are totally different skills. TV presenters generally make bad radio presenters imo.
Pity Radio 2 management don't seem to think that and are constantly using TV "names" rather than skilled radio people for daytime cover. You would have thought that if there was someone who you think might be worth a shot, they would try them out on a graveyard shift, to see what they were like. Oh no, these "stars" are parachuted in and we have to endure their cringeworthy presentation. Well actually, we don't - I just listen to a different station and I'm sure many others do as I do when the likes of Zoe Ball, Patrick Kielty, etc. etc. are on. |
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TV and radio are totally different skills. TV presenters generally make bad radio presenters imo.
You can say that you made a very sweeping statement |
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Sara Cox, Zoe Ball, Reggie Yates, Fearne Cotton, Paul O'Grady, Michael Ball, Frank Skinner, Dave Gorman, Johnny Vaughan, to name a few have transitioned well from other medium to radio.
You can say that you made a very sweeping statement |
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Any more news yet?
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Any more news yet?
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/ Launches in March. Multiplex on engineering test intermittently. Could start trade tests shortly..... |
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Any more news yet?
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/01/richard-wilkinson-joins-the-new-virgin-radio/ |
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I wonder which way they go music-wise. The old way: Classic Album Rock after Absolute Radio, or CHR-ish like the current stations in Canada and France.
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I wonder which way they go music-wise. The old way: Classic Album Rock after Absolute Radio, or CHR-ish like the current stations in Canada and France.
I do hope that they'll (in a few years time) launch spin off stations like they did in the past. |
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You would've thought that they would've adopted the CHR format and go in direct competition with Capital? The only difference between both Virgin France and Canada are the specialist dance shows on at the weekend.
I do hope that they'll (in a few years time) launch spin off stations like they did in the past. |
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Why should they do that? Capital is all over on FM, Virgin only DAB and online. They must find a niche. My hope is a classic/new album rock station like they did in 1993. Absolute is by far like that so they could try that way.
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I doubt that UTV would be able to control the format of the station / make the UK version unique from the rest. It's a franchise agreement.
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You would've thought that they would've adopted the CHR format and go in direct competition with Capital? The only difference between both Virgin France and Canada are the specialist dance shows on at the weekend.
I do hope that they'll (in a few years time) launch spin off stations like they did in the past. From radiotoday Quote:
the brand has an incredible heritage that people absolutely love, so it’s an honour to be asked to put together the station’s playlist.
,so might be CHR with a few rock hits mixed in? Will also be easier to network in with the format of the UTV local FM stations?. |
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Absolute 00s format might work- a rock base but credible pop and dance music mixed in.
It needs to be more than a jukebox, though. It'll be interesting to hear what names they're able to attract to a station with limited coverage. |
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Absolute 00s format might work- a rock base but credible pop and dance music mixed in.
I hope they go for something like that rather than trying to replicate the original Virgin Radio and sounding just like Absolute. |
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Richard Wilkinson's background is CHR, except for the time at 6 music
From radiotoday , so might be CHR with a few rock hits mixed in? Will also be easier to network in with the format of the UTV local FM stations?. |
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The whole UTV network rebrand wouldn't work with it also being available on national DAB.
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11.27 The all new Virgin Radio will play a range of the best rock and pop music What I was thinking if Virgin only do weekday breakfast and drivetime, now the local UTV network is no longer for sale, then it could take the networked Signal 1 programmes off peak rather than automation?
from the 1980s to the present day, appealing particularly to those aged 25- 44 and with a clearly defined slight bias towards male listeners. Programming will be carefully tailored to what this target audience wants to hear. 11.28 Virgin Radio will hire talented radio personalities to present its flagship weekday breakfast and drivetime programmes. These presenters will be established names who will epitomise what the station stands for – including a love of great music and an outlook that refuses to take itself too seriously. |
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Found the info in the bid
What I was thinking if Virgin only do weekday breakfast and drivetime, now the local UTV network is no longer for sale, then it could take the networked Signal 1 programmes off peak rather than automation? |
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I'm thinking that Russ Williams must be in the frame for Breakfast.
Russ & Jono on Virgin were leagues ahead of Chris Evans on Radio 1. Politically incorrect, decent music and two genuinely funny guys. The only decent thing that came out of the Evans era on Virgin was John Revell on a Saturday afternoon. Otherwise Evans did what he's done to pretty much everything he's taken over - it's been screwed up as he seems to be doing to Top Gear at the moment. |
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That would be fine providing they could tempt Jono Coleman back as well.
Russ & Jono on Virgin were leagues ahead of Chris Evans on Radio 1. Politically incorrect, decent music and two genuinely funny guys. |
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That would be fine providing they could tempt Jono Coleman back as well.
Russ & Jono on Virgin were leagues ahead of Chris Evans on Radio 1. Politically incorrect, decent music and two genuinely funny guys. The only decent thing that came out of the Evans era on Virgin was John Revell on a Saturday afternoon. Otherwise Evans did what he's done to pretty much everything he's taken over - it's been screwed up as he seems to be doing to Top Gear at the moment. Evans, Williams, Abbot, Banks, Cokes and Davies for a while on weekdays. Jonathan Ross at the weekend. Of course Evans was at the height of his uncontrollable ego-maniac days and systematically dismantled what he built almost as swiftly as he constructed it. |
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Found the info in the bid
What I was thinking if Virgin only do weekday breakfast and drivetime, now the local UTV network is no longer for sale, then it could take the networked Signal 1 programmes off peak rather than automation? |
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I thought that the signal shows were live on overnights? If you're saying that this idea could work, perhaps they could buy lincs group and / or Time 107.5 in the next couple of years for the Virgin Network? I know they've just sold juice, but imagine the listening figures.
http://www.independent.ie/business/m...-31486170.html Quote:
UTV Ireland losses cause group's profits to plummet by 90pc
now UTV will be just a radio group and assuming the new Virgin, Talksport 2 and Talkradio station launches go well, they maybe able to buy more local stations later?
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