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When a dear radio colleague lost his life, I was invited to speak at a fitting post-funeral celebration. His wonderful brother suggested I might present a tribute of the individual’s radio career, spiced with vintage audio, video and poignant pics. The presentation was lovingly assembled in good ti…

Dale was always going to be a star. He told me as much, as we sat in the Radio Trent offices in the early ‘80s.  His dream was specific. He told that a tacky game show would be his big break and he talked about the people he wanted to call his friends. In time, his dream was to become a colourful r…

Today, it’s ‘hat-gate'.  Auntie stands accused of doctoring a pic of Jeremy Corbyn and laying it against a Kremlin background. Across all social media, dreary threads are often to be found where angry people insist there is bias – and trot out examples to suit their case. The BBC, it is suggest…

The two largest US radio station owners have filed for bankruptcy - iHeartMedia (owner of iHeartRadio, formerly Clear Channel) which owns 850 stations and its rival Cumulus, with 445 stations. Does that send out a worrying signal for the radio industry generally - and a harbinger of things to come …

Rarely has radio been quite so authentic. In previous generations, it was enough to have a ‘voice on a stick’ as one of my colleagues used to call it. That smiling deep disc jockey voice, broadcasting seemingly from a parallel mid-Atlantic world. Now – you tune in and you hear real life. Presenters…

Isn't it great being on air when it snows.  You feel as though you are running the World.  You are in control of the information - and telling listeners where they can and cannot go, and what they can and cannot do. This is a moment when radio really comes into its own. No other media is quite …