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04-03-2007, 15:01
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I have found additional posts from Google's cache and they shall be added to the website. Adam's valuable post on the ownership/management has now been found:
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04-03-2007, 17:29
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Have you ever tried Googling Tom Bateman? It's worse than John Smith ! Sorry, if there is a John Smith out there ! |
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04-03-2007, 19:05
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I don't think Barry has been in Malta like he said.
I just caught him moonlighting on BBC 7 (The Laxian Key - can be heard on listen again tomorrow) |
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04-03-2007, 19:38
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Slightly different subject, well actually alot...I was thinking about the Big Quiz this afternoon. I really use to like listening when it was on during the week...possibly the time was a factor, it was normally when I was cooking, so was a bit of entertainment in the background. I don't listen anymore which is a bit of a shame because I do like Gary King. |
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04-03-2007, 19:51
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04-03-2007, 20:23
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I think moving Steve Allen to the early slot on Sunday is probably the most annoying change with the new schedule! I'm not the earliest of risers, so very often miss Steve during the week, but Sunday was one of the best days on LBC and a must listen day! Paul Ross, followed by Carol McGiffen, followed by Steve Allen, followed bt TRM, followed by Best of Nick Ferrari (for the bits I missed), followed by Cream (sometimes a bit hit and miss). All superb radio, IMO All as traditional as your Sunday roast, now all I get is a bacon butty with Carol 
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04-03-2007, 20:25
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Sorry, forgot to add, surely the king of gadgets, well perhaps queen of gadgets can't be on a modem still, surely he is on broadband
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04-03-2007, 21:03
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04-03-2007, 21:18
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Previously, it didn't matter what time on Sunday I arose it was quality radio. Sunday, Sunday roast, radio and family, what were Sundays made for ! |
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04-03-2007, 21:26
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Yes, I also nearly always miss Steve's Sunday show now, due to me having a late Saturday bedtime. It used to be great to have a (very) late brekkie with Steve's show. Now, if I do hear him, it is only in dribs and drabs through a sleepy haze.
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04-03-2007, 21:37
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04-03-2007, 22:48
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In the current Radio Times (p57), it says that, after the 'failure of RI:SE', Iain is a 'DJ on a London radio station'.
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04-03-2007, 23:52
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Here is a thought. Does not having a connection to the www preclude you from entering the "how-low auction" (and other competitions)? If they refer to t&c on the web, and you can't access them, you may think they may do something you would rather they didn't !
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05-03-2007, 07:23
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05-03-2007, 07:52
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05-03-2007, 07:58
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Does anyone know how tall John Cushing is? I heard SA taking the micky this morning out of John's height so just wondered.
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05-03-2007, 08:08
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05-03-2007, 08:12
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Awww bless!...Bet he was sorry when platform shoes went out the window. 
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05-03-2007, 08:56
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You Triple M critics will love this clip (but it could just be a joke of course, although someone commented on this a few weeks ago on the Yahoo group):
www.adamfi.co.uk/Triple_M_0020_5_Mar_07.mp3 |
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05-03-2007, 09:57
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05-03-2007, 10:43
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From today's Telegraph. It's rather long (I've subbed quite a lot out!) but it contains some interesting points about something we've discussed her - the age of target audiences - and there is a brief mention of Chrysalis.
A new network of radio stations aimed at the cash- and time-rich over-fifties is about to provide stiff competition for the BBC. Gillian Reynolds reports John Myers, chief executive of GMG Radio, says he's going to give Radio 2 a run for its money. He says it with a broad smile. A self-confessed admirer of Radio 2 and Terry Wogan's biggest fan, he's convinced he can challenge the BBC with his mini-network of Smooth stations. On March 26, they launch in London, the North-West, Glasgow, and the East and West Midlands, with the North-East to come in the autumn. Myers is aiming Smooth at a new audience, one commercial radio hasn't really engaged with nationally and no longer speaks to locally. This audience is aged 49 and upwards. They like a wide range of music, some (but not all) of it pre-1967, and prefer the people talking to them to know the locality. Myers has gone about this carefully. He founded the radio division of the Guardian Media Group in 1999 and has shrewdly grown it, acquiring existing stations and applying for new ones. Buying Jazz FM gave him footholds in Manchester and London and, with Ofcom's permission to change the format and the name to Smooth, the opportunity to try a new music mix. When GMG bought the Saga stations last December, it also got a loyal, mature and affluent audience, fitting in with both its existing listeners and its new strategy. Yet the mature audience is, traditionally, radio anathema. Commercial radio has mostly avoided it, and the BBC increasingly seems impatient with it. Radio 2 has been going as fast as it can to bypass older listeners. Radio 4 is trying hard to extend to a newer, less conservative, more ethnically mixed audience. Radio 3 is now sequenced, homogenised and chatty, unrecognisable to long-standing listeners. And remember that BBC local station manager who last year instructed phone-in presenters deliberately to exclude older callers? "There are three million over-fifties in London alone," he says. "Commercial radio has never targeted this key demographic. In our view, Saga was aiming slightly too old. I have a feeling Saga, like the old Radio 2, had more people listening than ever admitted it, because they didn't want to be classed as old. But that over-40 audience, cash- and time-rich, was part of Saga's success story." But will the advertising world, inhabited by twentysomethings, buy it? "They've never had a network to sell before," says Myers. What about Classic FM? "That's an ABC1 audience. We're aiming wider. The agencies like GMG. They're looking for different things from commercial radio." What about the presenters? Graham Dene (once Diana, Princess of Wales's favourite DJ) has been coaxed over from Magic, London's successful middle-of-the-road commercial station, to do the London breakfast show. Dave Lincoln, a DJ who rose to Emap's executive heights, has returned brilliantly to his mid-morning, on-air roots in the North-West. Martin Collins, latterly a ratings winner at Virgin Radio, is another recruit. Myers's ideal newsreaders, James Rea and Howard Hughes, already work for him in the North-West and Manchester. Yet, generally, there is much misery around in commercial radio at the moment. The internet is swallowing advertising. Small stations are handing back their licences. Of the big groups at the top of the league, GCap is going through hard times, there's talk of a management buyout at Chrysalis, and at Emap rumours swirl around which branch of the business might be sold. GMG, comfortingly, is protected by belonging to the Scott Trust. Even so, a tranche of shares in the company behind GMG's best earner, Auto Trader, is currently up for bids. Last edited by gurney-slade : 05-03-2007 at 10:45. |
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05-03-2007, 11:15
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05-03-2007, 11:27
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05-03-2007, 11:31
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Thanks for posting the article gurney-slade. I wonder if the new look Smooth Radio will pick up some listening hours from the older LBC listeners who don't like all of the modernising that has taken place as Smooth is going to have a minimum 25% of the output as speech during daytime hours.
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05-03-2007, 11:31
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I notice that James Max is moving to a 5pm-7pm slot from next Sunday, how does that effect the rest of the Sunday lineup? Does anyone know? A new show in the evening or just a re-jigging of the repeats?
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