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Mouthy Moyles is breakfast king
Chris Moyles, the self-proclaimed 'saviour of Radio 1', has finally delivered on his promise and has struck a blow to the commercial sector with a three-year high for the BBC youth station's breakfast show.
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Summer sport gives R5 a leg up
A summer that included Euro 2004, Wimbledon and the Olympics has helped deliver a boost to BBC Radio 5 Live.
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Kerrang! gets off to a flying start
The new west midlands station, Kerrang! 105.2, run by Broadcast publisher Emap, made a strong debut in its first appearance on the Rajar audience survey. Executives were estimating that the new station, which launched in June, would pick up around 150,000 listeners during its first ...
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GMG's regional Real Radio stays on top
The Guardian Media Group's Real Radio stations in Scotland and Wales have maintained their positions as the premier commercial stations in their regions. Scottish Real Radio achieved a weekly reach of 654,000, which is 10,000 listeners ahead of SRH-owned rival Clyde 1, while the Welsh station reported an audience of ...
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Record share for urban Choice FM
Ahead of its move into Capital's Leicester Square building, urban music station Choice FM has hit a record share of 3.2%. The London station also reported its second consecutive quarterly increase with a weekly reach of 383,000. Choice, Capital's most recent acquisition, was recently given the green light by Ofcom ...
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LBC loses listeners across its stations
Chrysalis-owned talk station LBC 97.3 has suffered another dip in audience figures over the three months to 12 September. Over a third of listeners abandoned the London station, dropping its weekly reach from 780,000 to 506,000, but breakfast host Nick Ferrari did report an increase of 25,000 listeners to achieve ...
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Magic 105.4 casts spell over London
Emap-owned Magic 105.4 was one of just two commercial radio stations in London to boost its breakfast show audience. Graham Dene's show achieved a 7% increase to record a weekly reach of 651,000, up from 609,000 in the previous quarter. The station as a whole recorded a weekly audience of ...
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Comment: how Moyles had commercial rivals for breakfast
After nearly a year in the job, Chris Moyles' boast to 'kick anyone's arse at breakfast' is indeed coming to pass for Radio 1, much to the consternation of commercial rivals - now kicking themselves for dropping their guard.
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Zeal TV buys Chatterbox
Producer-distributor Zeal Television has bought The Chatterbox Partnership in a deal worth more than£1m.
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Hartog hired by Tailor-Made
Stephanie Hartog, the FremantleMedia executive behind the international roll-out of the Pop Idol format, has been hired by indie Tailor-Made Films (TMF).
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RatingsHex lifts Sky's peaktime curse
Sky One's autumn season, which has included shows such as Deadwood and Hex , has seen the channel regain some of its lost peaktime audience.
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BBC promotes Patel
BBC head of revenue management Zarin Patel will take on the role of group finance director from 1 December, replacing John Smith who was promoted to chief operating officer in June. She will be charged with leading the BBC's financial strategy, planning, control and corporate reporting activities as well as ...
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Cornish expansion
Denham Productions, the indie behind Rick Stein's food series, is to open a new office in Cornwall, creating several new jobs in the region. Development producer Mike Cunliffe will head the office and three more full-time staff will also be hired. Denham, which is based in Plymouth, is working on ...
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Necessary pain
The result of the BBC's series of internal reviews looks likely to be radical change - and not before time.
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TV sweeps board at National TV awards
Coronation Street prodigy Sam Aston (above) was the most popular winner at last night's National Television Awards, which saw ITV pick up nearly all the prizes. Aston, who plays Chesney Brown
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Asian launch planned for BBC Prime
BBC Worldwide's entertainment channel, BBC Prime, is to launch across Asia from 1 December. The channel, which screens programmes such as Top of the Pops , Weakest Link and Doctors , will initially begin ...
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TWG plans bid for Belfast FM licence
The Wireless Group has joined forces with the Belfast Telegraph in its bid for a new FM licence in Belfast. TWG, which owns the national TalkSport station, will submit a music format titled Delicious FM. SMG has also thrown its hat into the ring and ...
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Sambrook to probe journalists' risks
BBC director of global news Richard Sambrook is to chair a new international committee investigating the risks journalists face in danger zones and how they can be better protected. Sambrook, who announced details of the committee during a lecture at Columbia University in New York, said media groups, government representatives, ...
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RatingsITV1's Bond charms 8.3m
BBC1's natural history programme British Isles was scuppered by Die Another Day as the TV premiere of the Bond movie peaked with 8.3 million (38.5%).
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The trials of training
As the BBC prepares to cut production staff and ITV withdraws from the regions, indies are having to take on more of the training responsibilities traditionally left to broadcasters. Are they up to it?
