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Old 06-11-2016, 15:55
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Tbh there website is a mess there might be a temprary presenter on Sunday evenings for 2 months because they are starting networking in the new year.
Has this been formally confirmed or is it your new way of telling us that you can't wait to hear the networked programmes on Free Radio in case we haven't worked that out from all of your previous posts?

On another note, the schedule on the Radioplayer app is showing Gemma presenting a seven day evening show while Darren Lee takes over weekday overnights from Andy Goulding. In reality Darren is too good for overnights but all of the presenters in the daytime schedule are also quality.
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Old 06-11-2016, 17:18
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Has this been formally confirmed or is it your new way of telling us that you can't wait to hear the networked programmes on Free Radio in case we haven't worked that out from all of your previous posts?

On another note, the schedule on the Radioplayer app is showing Gemma presenting a seven day evening show while Darren Lee takes over weekday overnights from Andy Goulding. In reality Darren is too good for overnights but all of the presenters in the daytime schedule are also quality.
Im not too sure if the networking will start in two months someone told me this on another thread so i don,t know if its bs or not . But at least we have new faces doing other shows for now.
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Old 07-11-2016, 18:35
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Ryan Borthwick is on a double shift today. The home run on Clyde 1 and his late show. It seems that Grant Thomson wasnt feeling well during 2 o clock anthems so Ryan was called in.
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Old 10-11-2016, 17:04
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Grant Thomson is off on his hols so Micky Gavin from Northsound 1 is covering the Home run and 2 o clock anthems but I was wondering will Micky be travelling down from Aberdeen to the radio clyde studios or doing the shows from up their.
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Old 10-11-2016, 17:24
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Grant Thomson is off on his hols so Micky Gavin from Northsound 1 is covering the Home run and 2 o clock anthems but I was wondering will Micky be travelling down from Aberdeen to the radio clyde studios or doing the shows from up their.
Doesn't that question answer itself?

8 hours on air, 5 hours travel, prep for shows etc. 13 hours plus prep time, meetings, meals etc. All that after rising at 4am for the breakfast show.
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Old 10-11-2016, 17:55
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Doesn't that question answer itself?

8 hours on air, 5 hours travel, prep for shows etc. 13 hours plus prep time, meetings, meals etc. All that after rising at 4am for the breakfast show.
So hes doing it from Aberdeen. I suppose Clyde have 8 hours local hours between 6am and 2pm anyway so 4 hours from the deen shouldnt cause many problems.
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Old 10-11-2016, 18:03
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Whats the chance of getting Pete Price in the Midlands?
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Old 10-11-2016, 18:10
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Whats the chance of getting Pete Price in the Midlands?
We already do, if you listen on the internet.
As for FM, no chance.
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Old 10-11-2016, 19:11
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So hes doing it from Aberdeen. I suppose Clyde have 8 hours local hours between 6am and 2pm anyway so 4 hours from the deen shouldnt cause many problems.
Some presenting a 'local' show from another part of the country will count as a local show as it isn't networked.

That is happening pretty frequently.
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Old 10-11-2016, 19:15
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It's a joke that at 7pm on a Friday night Liverpool has no local station playing tunes that resonate within its area. It wasn't all that long ago we had two great competing stations but such is the way radio is run these days all it wants to be is the occasional bit of background noise for car journeys and shops.

Why do city continue to employ lee butler to play the standard play list at pm of a weekday and some other standard playlist Sunday rubbish. Get rid of the crap 2pm weekday optout and do something special at the weekend.

They really should have poached anton powers back and gone for it rather than roll over and let capital enter the market as they have done.

Heads should be rolling at just how poorly this once great station is being run.
Totally agree. As you mentioned in another thread the "wool" presenters aren't right and stand out like a sore thumb.

It's crazy how it's gone in this country. In other countries a major city like Liverpool would no problem supporting a local station 24/7. Indeed, it used to. It's just that these radio companies have realised they can get more money if they network.

Some presenting a 'local' show from another part of the country will count as a local show as it isn't networked.

That is happening pretty frequently.
Absolute BS (the situation, not your post), that shouldn't count as local hours!

It's like how Bazz Todd fills in for weeks at a time on Capital N.Wales. There's no way he's driving down to Wrexham, I bet he's in Liverpool and it's not on.
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Old 10-11-2016, 19:31
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So hes doing it from Aberdeen. I suppose Clyde have 8 hours local hours between 6am and 2pm anyway so 4 hours from the deen shouldnt cause many problems.
It's possible with the playout system Bauer use (Dalet) to present a local or networked show from a different location to usual if the need arises. For instance Romeo once presented his evening show from the Radio Borders studios at Tweedbank!
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Old 10-11-2016, 22:05
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It's possible with the playout system Bauer use (Dalet) to present a local or networked show from a different location to usual if the need arises. For instance Romeo once presented his evening show from the Radio Borders studios at Tweedbank!
That seems a really strange location to do a network show. Do you knkw why?
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Old 10-11-2016, 22:27
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That seems a really strange location to do a network show. Do you knkw why?
I think he was doing a feature of some sort there, and rather than try to get back to Clydebank in time for 7pm he just did the show from Tweedbank instead. As the usual Scottish network phone numbers and text numbers were used, as far as the listener was concerned the show was coming from the usual studio.
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Old 11-11-2016, 10:55
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Absolute BS (the situation, not your post), that shouldn't count as local hours!

It's like how Bazz Todd fills in for weeks at a time on Capital N.Wales. There's no way he's driving down to Wrexham, I bet he's in Liverpool and it's not on.
You should complain to Ofcom if you feel so strongly about it. They'll want evidence though, not guesswork.
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Old 11-11-2016, 12:35
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If they care enough to investigate the station will be able to provide the evidence.
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Old 11-11-2016, 20:57
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I think he was doing a feature of some sort there, and rather than try to get back to Clydebank in time for 7pm he just did the show from Tweedbank instead. As the usual Scottish network phone numbers and text numbers were used, as far as the listener was concerned the show was coming from the usual studio.
Question. How does the main controller (clyde 1 studios) of the network, hand over the powers / controls to other presenters located in studios like Northsound or Forth One?
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Old 11-11-2016, 21:09
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That seems a really strange location to do a network show. Do you knkw why?
When the networking rules were changes in 2008. Smooth networked evenings and overnights from Newcastle because the then new Smooth North East wasn't allowed to network for the first year or so, so they networked the Smooth North East output so it still counted as a local show for them
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Old 11-11-2016, 21:31
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Question. How does the main controller (clyde 1 studios) of the network, hand over the powers / controls to other presenters located in studios like Northsound or Forth One?
Pretty sure it is essentially a fader/computerised system can do that - pretty easily.

On the Bauer network you can literally fire up any station's current playlist/output and log files of what has been played (music/jingles etc).

Can remember helping with the Game On live football opt outs a couple years or so ago on one of the AM Scottish stations and you could see the 'networked' output on screen coming from Glasgow and also changes etc being made while also up on screen (this playlist included local ads/idents) was next door studio's playlist/timings on FM.

On the football front, It was the Clyde 2/Bauer AM service (with local jingles/ads) then at 2:50pm break the ads were playing and it was the queue to bring down the 'network' fader once they had finished and locally press the ident in etc and put the commentators at the ground live.

There was one day though there was an ISDN issue and couldn't get the commentators up in time after the 2:50pm break so left the Glasgow feed up (and you still get local idents etc) and Gavin Pearson carried on his chat/music... There was usually always one AM station who didn't have a local team at home so had a music/goals update service from 3-5pm. On this instance the feed stayed on and we managed to get lucky, and after he had rattled through scores over a bed fired we timed right to run an ident and brought in the commentators just after kickoff.

There was a set time where at 4:56pm roughly there would be an ad break which had to be taken on time. So commentators had to be off air by then and locally play ads and then when they finished to fire the 'Network/Clyde 2' fader up as they then took over firing idents out and starting the 5pm hour song.
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Old 16-11-2016, 18:54
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Pretty sure it is essentially a fader/computerised system can do that - pretty easily.

On the Bauer network you can literally fire up any station's current playlist/output and log files of what has been played (music/jingles etc).

Can remember helping with the Game On live football opt outs a couple years or so ago on one of the AM Scottish stations and you could see the 'networked' output on screen coming from Glasgow and also changes etc being made while also up on screen (this playlist included local ads/idents) was next door studio's playlist/timings on FM.

On the football front, It was the Clyde 2/Bauer AM service (with local jingles/ads) then at 2:50pm break the ads were playing and it was the queue to bring down the 'network' fader once they had finished and locally press the ident in etc and put the commentators at the ground live.

There was one day though there was an ISDN issue and couldn't get the commentators up in time after the 2:50pm break so left the Glasgow feed up (and you still get local idents etc) and Gavin Pearson carried on his chat/music... There was usually always one AM station who didn't have a local team at home so had a music/goals update service from 3-5pm. On this instance the feed stayed on and we managed to get lucky, and after he had rattled through scores over a bed fired we timed right to run an ident and brought in the commentators just after kickoff.

There was a set time where at 4:56pm roughly there would be an ad break which had to be taken on time. So commentators had to be off air by then and locally play ads and then when they finished to fire the 'Network/Clyde 2' fader up as they then took over firing idents out and starting the 5pm hour song.
Not sure if this is the occassion your are talking about but Westsound in Ayrshire was due to air commentary of Kilmarnock and instead they aired music and goals from I think Forth 2 as they didnt have commentary that weekend then at about 3.20 the commentary came on.
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Old 16-11-2016, 18:55
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Think it is probably due to them playing at Clyde 1 live but ive heard The 1975 bring played a lot more on Clyde 1 the last few weeks not a band thats normally played. The other artists are probably getting more air time too.
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Old 17-11-2016, 19:49
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When the networking rules were changes in 2008. Smooth networked evenings and overnights from Newcastle because the then new Smooth North East wasn't allowed to network for the first year or so, so they networked the Smooth North East output so it still counted as a local show for them
If I remember right the other reason was that Smooth London and Smooth North West use to have a Jazz / Soul show overnight presented by Tony Myatt. As a condition of Jazz FM being rebranded to Smooth in London and North West Jazz programmes needed to be provided overnight.

Smooth in the North East, Glasgow, West Midlands and East Midlands had different licences to London and the North West providing melodic music for the over 50's. These stations use to have output from the North East overnight. The rest apart from the North East were ex - Saga stations. Programmes were presented by Steve Wells and Steve Phillips from the North East. There was a Soft Rock show presented by Steve Wells on a Saturday night.

I think Smooth North East only took Mark Goodier's mid morning show as a network programme at the start.. I remember it took years for them to take Tony Blackburn's weekend Breakfast.

Now all Smooth stations now have been made the same under Global as they all have to provide some hours of Soul and Jazz influenced Soul to make it easy networking the same output. Though Global have scrapped the weekend Soul shows so the hours must have been relaxed.
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Old 17-11-2016, 20:02
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Bauer use an Ip system for their network programs across the city 1 stations it,s delivered by an MP 2 Stream and at 7pm the presenter will fade up the 0S1 channel.
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Old 17-11-2016, 20:36
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Gregor Runciman has been taken off his daily 10-2 show on Radio Borders this week to do the 10-2 show on Forth 1. Jonny Campbell who has being doing cover on west fm is covering at Radio Borders. I take it Bauer think that Forth need a bigger name presenter to cover for Stotty and Ewen Cameron is busy doing Panto this week.

Also next week Stuart Webster will be doing 8 hours. 4 hours on Tay fm breakfast then 4 hours on Forth 1 covering for Stotty.
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Old 18-11-2016, 00:36
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Jonny Campbell is based at Radio Borders for the next 6 weeks.
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Old 18-11-2016, 07:55
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Jonny Campbell is based at Radio Borders for the next 6 weeks.
Hes actually quite good definetly a name to watch out for in the future
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