How Indignant May Eddie Mair be on Commercial Radio?
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As Eddie Mair slides off his sticky BBC headphones for the last time and hands over his lanyard, what will he be thinking? With due respect to his many accomplished colleagues who have hosted PM frequently and excellently, it is Eddie who has defined the immaculate style of the programme in recent …

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Another BBC year - the 2017/2018 Report
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It’s not quite as exciting as the arrival of the bumper Christmas Radio Times, but the annual BBC report and accounts usually provide for some interesting titbits and a sense of the mood in the BBC's wood-panelled offices - in the shadows of portraits of dead DGs Whilst the salary details attra…

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How Much Should we Care about Commercial Radio Localness? - the latest Ofcom Consultation
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It seems so long since we got our teeth into a good broadcasting consultation. They used to happen so often in the good old days. Things ain’t what they used to be. Fuelled by some new ‘consumer research’, OFCOM today released proposals on amending the guidelines on commercial radio localness. They…

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