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The intrepid organisers of  this year's Student Radio Conference  invited me to speak about 50 yrs of Radio One. That was k ind. Much as I would have thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing fondly in front of the bored faces of bright young things, I thought it might be more useful to use the Radio One …

Scarborough - pic by Mark G7RJV The BBC has announced it is to shut down the AM frequencies of its local radio services. It will close 13 medium wave transmitters in January 2018, with BBC Sussex, Surrey, Humberside, Wiltshire, Nottingham, Kent and Lincolnshire no longer available, and reduced cov…

Uniquely-gifted voice artist Peter Dickson and I ended up chatting about  changing vocal styles when we met to record his edition of the Conversations series .  As soon as he mentioned BBC Home Service stentorian newsreaders like Brian Perkins or Peter Donaldson , I could hear those influences in…

Having overheard a few bright young things in BBC local radio call their awards the ‘Gilliards’, it might be worth a quick canter through the life of the man who was Frank Gillard who lent his name to your annual budget knees up awards ceremony.  He is the reason you are here.    The BBC was not aw…

The diligent folk at Rajar are unassuming. They don't shout about all the canny analysis they do.  They are pretty good at acronyms too.  MIDAS is their excellent  ' Measurement of Internet Delivered Audio Services ' survey , designed to provid e context and insight into how audio cont…

I’m not saying that the BBC sought to bury the contents of its  Annual Report and Accounts for 2016/17 by publishing its stars’ salaries on the same day, but the necessary timing had that effect. Actually, it was probably more tempting to try  to bury the salary stats instead. Onto the report itsel…