All Radio articles – Page 25
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NewsAdrian Chiles to return to the BBC
Adrian Chiles is to return to the BBC to take on presenting duties for Radio 5 Live’s Friday night 5 Live Drive.
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NewsUTV’s pre-tax profits dive to £6m
TalkSport owner UTV suffered a “slow” first half of 2013 as its pre-tax profits sunk nearly 43%.
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NewsDG: Half of BBC breakfast show hosts must be female
Director General Tony Hall is aiming to boost the representation of women on the airwaves by requesting that half of all local BBC radio breakfast shows have a female voice by 2015.
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NewsTalkSport expands EPL coverage to Europe
TalkSport has extended its international Premier League commentary rights to allow it to broadcast coverage in any language across Europe.
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NewsDigital radio listening breaks 50% barrier
Rajar: The last three months have seen more than half of the UK’s adult population listen to radio via digital platforms for the first time, as 28m tuned in.
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NewsNick Grimshaw halts R1 breakfast show slide
Rajar: Nick Grimshaw halted his BBC Radio 1 breakfast show slide as Radio 4 pulled in a record 11m weekly listeners.
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NewsO'Connell adds 1.5m to Absolute ahead of sale
Rajar: Every national commercial radio breakfast show made gains over the past three months, with Absolute’s Christian O’Connell Show breaking 1.5m listeners for the first time.
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NewsBauer Media buys Absolute Radio
Bauer Media has bought Absolute Radio in a deal understood to be worth more than £20m.
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NewsBig dog Tim Westwood bows out of Radio 1
Hip hop DJ Tim Westwood is leaving Radio 1 after 20 years as part of a schedule shake-up.
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NewsBBC presenter Mishal Husain to join Radio 4's Today
BBC News at Ten presenter Mishal Husain is to join Radio 4’s Today programme as the BBC continues to attempt to address the gender imbalance across the corporation.
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CommentMiranda Sawyer: women on-air stats “shocking”
More proof of the lack of female voices on-air is revealed today with a study showing just one in five solo voices on radio is female.
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NewsColin Murray to join TalkSport
BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Colin Murray is to become TalkSport’s first major summer signing.
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NewsGrayson Perry to give BBC Reith Lectures
Artist Grayson Perry is to deliver the BBC Reith Lectures on Radio 4.
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CommentCommercial radio: 40 years of big personalities
Paul Robinson casts an eye over Arqiva’s commerical radio power list
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CommentTaking on 12,000 sketches
There’s nothing else like this on radio, says Jane Berthoud on The Show What You Wrote
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NewsUK indies score at NY radio awards
UK radio indies including TBI Media, Somethin’ Else and Wise Buddah, were among the winners at this year’s New York Festival International Radio Awards.
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CommentCommercial radio: show me the money
Global’s appeal against the decision to block its GMG takeover must be supported.
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NewsToday programme censured over ‘retard’ remarks
A Radio 4 Today programme interview with Prime Suspect scribe Lynda La Plante has been rapped by Ofcom over the writer’s use of the word “retard”.
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NewsJonathan Wall completes Radio 5 Live team
BBC Radio 5 live has hired Bauer Media executive Richard Maddock to lead commissioning as new controller Jonathan Wall completes his senior management team.
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NewsKeys and Gray ditch weekday TalkSport show
Richard Keys and Andy Gray are to end their mid-morning TalkSport show to return to television more than two years after the sexism scandal that forced them out of Sky.