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Commercial radio stations will not be allowed to cut local programming, after Ofcom rejected pressure from the industry to be able to do so.The watchdog has also announced new rules to preserve sound quality on DAB radio, with new guidelines published today as part of the media regulator’s long-running Future of Radio review.As expected, FM… Continue reading Ofcom Rejects Call For Cut In Local Radio Content

4Radio has not yet appointed an advertising director or sales team prior to the July launch date of the platform, according to reports.It had been expected that a final decision on applicants for the commercial director position would be made before Christmas by the operator of the UK’s second national digital multiplex, 4Digital Group.According to… Continue reading 4Radio Still Looking For Ad Director

GaydarRadio is celebrating its sixth birthday with a brand new line-up and five brand new network shows.Joining the daily line-up are the former CBBC and Diggit (GMTV) presenter Liam Dolan who presents Gaydar Anthems live from Profile three evenings a week and Phil Marriott with a brand new weekday drivetime show.Also making their GaydarRadio debuts… Continue reading GaydarRadio Unveils New Line-Up

Veteran DJ Tony Blackburn is to join London’s Smooth Radio as the presenter of its weekend breakfast show.Blackburn, who left GCap Media’s Classic Gold before its merger with sister network Capital Gold last year (see New Gold Network Releases Schedule), will present his first show on Smooth on February 16.“Smooth Radio is a wonderful station… Continue reading Blackburn Joins Smooth Radio London For Weekend Breakfast

Danny Wallace will be livening up the Xfm London and Manchester schedules when he begins his weekly Saturday show from 10am to 2pm on February 9.Some of Wallace’s most famous credits include his books Join Me and Yes Man, TV show How to Start Your Own Country for BBC Two, and his presenting work on… Continue reading Danny Wallace Gets Xfm Saturday Show

95.8 Capital Radio reached the top spot with its breakfast show in London in Q4 2007, with the latest RAJAR figures seeing the station reporting a year on year rise in reach of over 4%.The station’s weekly reach now stands at 937,000, which was however down from over one million in Q3 2007, but still… Continue reading Capital Radio Scoops Breakfast Top Spot In London

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q4 2007, show that 16.6% of all radio listening Is now done via a digital platform, up from 15% in the previous quarter.The figures show that 9.9% of all radio listening is via DAB ( v 8.6% in Q3 2007), 3.1% via DTV (vs. 3.0% in Q3, 2007) and 1.9%… Continue reading Over 16% Of All Radio Listening Now Via Digital

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q4 2007, show that BBC Radio 2 remained the national station with the highest weekly reach, of more than 12.8 million listeners. However, it was down both period on period and year on year, by 1.5% and 3.4% respectively.BBC Radio 1 was up period on period by 1.1% to around… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 Sees Weekly Reach Decline

The weekly reach of All Commercial stations declined by around 2% year on year for all demographic groups in Q4 2007, as well as falling over 1.6% period on period.Meanwhile, All BBC’s weekly reach across all demographics was up both year on year and period on period, by 1% and over 0.7% respectively.All BBC now… Continue reading Reach Declines Across All Demographics For Commercial Radio Whilst BBC Reports Upturn

All BBC radio saw a year on year and period on period upturn in its weekly reach and share of listening for the final quarter of 2007, according to the latest RAJAR listening figures.Reach for All BBC rose to over 33.1 million, a 1% year on year increase, whilst share for Q4 2007 now stands… Continue reading All BBC Records Upturn In Reach And Share Whilst All Commercial Falls