All Radio articles – Page 84
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Housing sitcom among R4's Unique orders
Radio indie Unique has won a slate of commissions from BBC Radio 4, including a pilot sitcom about estate agents starring comedian David Schneider.
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NewsGCap plans local push after buying website
GCap Media will use social networking site Welovelocal.com to reinforce its connection with regional listeners and access new classified revenue streams, according to chief executive Fru Hazlitt.
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NewsGCap acquires 'local' social networking site
GCap Media has acquired a majority stake in local social networking website welovelocal.com Limited for£450,000.
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NewsMacIntyre heads to 5 Live
Donal MacIntyre will make his radio presenting debut next month in a new series of investigative programmes on BBC Radio 5 Live.
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Community radio hits 100
UK community radio has reached the 100-station landmark with the launch of 7 Waves Community Radio in the Wirral and Calon FM, serving Wrexham.
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Lyttelton leaves jazz show
Veteran jazzman Humphrey Lyttelton has called time on his role as presenter of BBC Radio 2's The Best of Jazz after 40 years.
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NewsGlobal ‘must spend millions' on Gcap
Global Radio will have to invest millions more in the GCap Media portfolio if its proposed£371m takeover is to be successful, industry figures have claimed.
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NewsFiona Phillips joins Smooth
London's Smooth Radio has signed-up breakfast TV star Fiona Phillips to present its Sunday afternoon show from Easter weekend.
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NewsAdam and Joe to produce BBCW paid-for podcasts
Comedy duo Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish are to produce a series of paid-for podcasts that will be sold by BBC Worldwide over iTunes.
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NewsGlobal granted extension on GCap bid
Global Radio's extension to make a formal offer for GCap Media has been extended to 5pm on 26 March 2008 by the Takeover Panel.
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Jazz FM returns to capital
GMG Radio will relaunch Jazz FM in London and the north-west as a DAB-only digital station.
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NewsFags & Mags returns to R4
BBC Radio 4 has recommissioned The Comedy Unit to make a second series of its Glasgow-based cornershop sitcom Fags, Mags & Bags.
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Unique wins variety of R4 commissions
Radio indie Unique has won a raft of orders for BBC Radio 4, including a series to mark the bicentenary of the Peninsula War.
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NewsAd flight from radio to web 'has settled'
The first full year of growth in commercial radio revenues since 2004 is proof that the shift of advertising to the internet has finally settled, senior industry figures have claimed.
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NewsGlobal makes 11th hour GCap bid
Global Radio has tabled a last minute bid for GCap Media valuing the company at£371 million.
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NewsBBC London 94.9 unveils new look
BBC London 94.9 has signed up ‘king of the jungle' Christopher Biggins and ex-Birds of a Feather star Lesley Joseph as part of its new-look weekend line-up.
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NewsGCap knocks back second Global offer
GCap Media has rejected an improved 202p per share offer from Global Radio, saying it is still too low.
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BBC rapped over Kennedy
The BBC has admitted it should have issued an on-air apology after Radio 2 DJ Sarah Kennedy told listeners she almost ran over a black man in the dark because she could not see him.