All Radio articles – Page 108
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NewsHumphrys compensated over leaked after dinner speech
BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys has received a£10,000 payout from the event firm which leaked controversial remarks he made in an after dinner speech.
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NewsGCap put Xfm forward for north east FM licence
GCap Media is looking to extend its alternative music format Xfm into a national analogue network by putting it forward for the north east FM licence currently being advertised by Ofcom.
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NewsO'Connell takes Xfm team to Virgin
New Virgin Radio breakfast host Christian O'Connell is taking his entire Xfm team with him, when he starts his new job on 23 January.
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NewsUBC Media in positive form
10.30am: UBC Media appears to have bucked the trend of a difficult radio advertising market, with a like-on-like increase of 20% in revenues for the first six months of the year.
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NewsGCap: job cuts will not top 100
GCap Media has assured trade union Bectu it will not make more than 100 people redundant.
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Baker's back at BBC
Former BBC Radio London presenter Danny Baker is to return to the station, just four months after quitting. Baker, who left the breakfast show in May to pursue 'personal projects' - believed to include working on a comedy drama for Five - will start the afternoon show this Monday, 17 ...
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NewsBaker back on BBC Radio London
Former BBC Radio London presenter Danny Baker is to return to the station, just four months after quitting.
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Hall of Fame return
BBC Radio 2 DJ Dermot O'Leary will front this year's UK Music Hall of Fameprogramming, which returns to Channel 4 in November. The Big Brother's Little Brotherpresenter will begin the two-week music special by hosting The Biggest Selling Artists ...
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Abbey wins licence
Ofcom has awarded a 12-year commercial licence to Abbey FM, a format owned by The Radio Business, CN Group and The Local Radio Company. The station, which is expected to launch some time next year, is to focus on local music and information aimed at 25 to 64-year-olds and will ...
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Saxton to Virgin
Former Saatchi & Saatchi marketing director Kathleen Saxton has joined Virgin Radio as strategy and planning director, reporting to chief executive Fru Hazlitt. Saxton will work on overall strategy for the group, conducting an analysis of the business and helping to identify future opportunities. Saxton spent five years as business ...
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Oneword to podcast
Oneword Radio, the joint-venture between UBC Media and Channel 4, has launched a podcast of its daily author interview show Between the Lines. The national digital speech and entertainment-based station will make the daily half-hour show, presented by Paul Blezard, available for free download through audioville.com ...
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NewsGCap sheds two more directors
GCap Media has released another two directors, just a week after the departure of chief executive David Mansfield.
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NewsRadio 1 rapped for foul-mouthed tirade
BBC Radio 1 has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting a barrage of expletives at 7pm.
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Radio 1 sexes it up
BBC Radio 1 has teamed up with the Open University (OU) for the first time for a series of live broadcasts of phone-in show The Sunday Surgery, called The Sex Tour. The show will broadcast from Wrexham, Glasgow, Sunderland and Derry on ...
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NewsMansfield quits GCap
GCap Media chief executive David Mansfield has stepped down and will be replaced in the role by executive chairman Ralph Bernard.
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UTV takes major stake in First Radio
Ulster Television (UTV), the new owner of TalkSport parent company The Wireless Group, has taken a 50% stake in radio sales house First Radio Sales, owned by The Local Radio Company, for£500,000. First Radio Sales will now represent 113 stations including the UTV radio stations, as well as the 29 ...
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UTV buys up Juice
Ulster TV (UTV) has acquired the remaining 67% of Liverpool station Juice FM that it did not already own from joint-venture partner Absolute Radio UK. The station will now be integrated into UTV Radio. UTV bought the station from Forever Broadcasting in September 2003 for£3.1m, in partnership with Absolute, an ...
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Ofcom opens bidding for Tyne FM licence
Ofcom has put one of the last remaining regional FM licences up for grabs, this time covering Tyne & Wear and Teesside.
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BBC to enhance radio experience on Freeview
The BBC is to revamp its Freeview radio channel service by introducing more interactive elements.
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BBC radio to cover England cricket tour of Pakistan
The BBC has secured exclusive radio rights to the England cricket team's autumn tour of Pakistan - a move new director of sport Roger Mosey said proved the corporation was committed to the sport.