Tag: commercial radio
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A Brief History of Virgin Radio
[Republished from 2008 after first appearing on the One Golden Square blog] So as the lights come down on 15 and a bit years of Virgin Radio, I thought it might be worth giving everyone a whistlestop history of Virgin Radio – how it came about and some of the things that have happened here…
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#radiodetritus
This week is my final week in One Golden Square. More about that anon. However, one of those things you have to do when you leave, is have a bit of a clear out. One way or another, I’ve accumulated quite a pile of “stuff” over the years. My already cluttered flat has a pile…
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RAJAR Q4 2013
If it’s early February, it means it’s time for another RAJAR release. So what are the big stories? Well I reckon they Radio 2, Radio 1 and commercial radio in general in London are the main themes. But let’s go through things in a bit more detail. National The first thing to note is that…
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LBC at Forty – Memories
Happy Birthday to LBC which is forty years old, and was the first – legal – commercial radio station in the UK, launching on 8th October 1973 just a few days ahead of Capital Radio and Radio Clyde. I’m not going to write a history about it here, because others will do that, and they’ll…