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Speaking at the Edinburgh Radio Festival, Dee Ford, managing director of media giant, Emap Performance, emphasised the importance of building relationships with radio listeners.Unveiling research conducted by Emap, the radio boss explained that audiences wanted personalities and locality from their radio stations, both of which involves more in-depth identification with audiences and a “constant building… Continue reading Emap Takes A Closer Look At Audience Relationships

The Children’s Food Bill campaign has published a major new report detailing the repeated failure of voluntary controls to curb junk food advertising to children. coinciding with the Department of Health’s “Food and Drink Advertising Promotion Forum”, meeting for the first time this morning.The report, Children’s Food Bill – Why we need a new law,… Continue reading Government Fails To Curb Junk Food Advertising to Kids

The importance of radio as a means of communication was raised yesterday by musician and organiser of Live 8, Midge Ure, with the rock and roll legend urging broadcasters to use their platforms to spread the message surrounding Africa and the G8 summit, held in Gleneagles this week.Amidst a week of charity marches and protests,… Continue reading Live8 Organiser Praises Power Of Radio

Daily Newspaper MarketDeclining readership continued to affect the majority of Britain’s daily national newspapers throughout April, with just a handful avoiding negative growth year on year. As a whole the daily newspaper market lost 2.9% of readers year on year.Quality Daily TitlesThe Times put in a good performance, as did the Guardian, increasing readers by… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: April 2005

The Radio Independents Group (RIG) will own all copyrights to the programmes they produce, according to new terms of trade unveiled yesterday at the Edinburgh Radio Festival.After 6 months of negotiations, the RIG and BBC have agreed that Independents will control all distribution rights to their output, while the BBC will take a licence to… Continue reading New Deal Gives Independent Producers Rights To BBC Content

Ulster TV (UTV) has announced the appointment of Scott Taunton as chief executive officer of The Wireless Group (TWG), taking up his new post with immediate effect following UTV’s acquisition of the company last month.UTV acquired TWG in a deal worth around £98 million. Taunton’s appointment sees him replace former chief executive, Kelvin MacKenzie who… Continue reading UTV Appoints Taunton As New Wireless Chief

The recent decline of young audiences is causing concern for the radio industry, with the important 16-24 year old age group dropping by 5% across all radio over the last two years.Speaking at the Edinburgh Radio Festival Gail Gallie, head of youth marketing at the BBC and John Robson, partner at research company Sparkler, unveiled… Continue reading BBC Urges Focus On Young Radio Audiences

Chris Evans has signed up to present a Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio 2, inking his contract on stage at the Edinburgh Radio Festival, in a move which will see him return to radio after a six year absence.Evans’ new contract spans seven-months, signed during an interview with broadcaster and journalist, Matthew Bannister. Commenting… Continue reading Evans Signs With Radio 2 For Return To Radio

The increasing penetration of digital radio is making the industry a ‘complicated business’, with new research from the BBC identifying the difference in levels of knowledge and awareness in the digital market. Speaking at the Edinburgh Radio Festival, Simon Nelson, controller for BBC radio and music interactive, and Jo Hamilton, the Corporation’s head of audience… Continue reading BBC To Drive Future Uptake Of DAB Radio

Despite its increasing uptake in the US, satellite radio has not yet penetrated in the UK, with Stephen Carter, chief executive for Ofcom, saying that the medium is interesting, but “not really being looked into” by the media regulator. Speaking at the Edinburgh Radio Festival, Carter claimed that a subscriber radio model would not have… Continue reading Ofcom Shows Lack Of Interest In UK Satellite Radio Uptake