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Love Sport Radio owner Kelvin MacKenzie is calling for changes to the way Arqiva does business, saying the monopoly business needs to be broken up or regulated. He writes: “I am grateful to the commercial stations serving the Asian…
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Chris Burns, Head of BBC Local Radio, writes about the recent wins for BBC Local Radio at the Audio and Radio Industry Awards. “When a BBC local radio reporter decided to tell the story of a homeless man who died on a freezing…
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Following the announcement regarding the scope of the Digital Radio and Audio Review, Media Minister John Whittingdale writes for RadioToday urging the industry to work together going forward. “Radio is still vital for so many of us…
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Audio Content Fund independent funding panel member David Lloyd writes about public service broadcasting and the Audio Content Fund. “Just as on the BBC, not all public service content has to be devoted to a cause – it’s…
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Radiocentre’s Chief Executive Siobhan Kenny looks back on the industry body’s overarching strategy, See Radio Differently. “When I joined the radio industry almost 6 years ago now, one of the first things I wanted to…
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Kelvin Mackenzie is calling for analogue national licences to be put up for auction. The DCMS has asked for responses by February 22nd to a consultation, and there is a Radiocentre roundtable on Tuesday with DCMS in attendance. “Boris…
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Former chief adviser to Ofcom Martin Campbell has a view on the upcoming changes at the BBC. “Today, the BBC, and radio in particular, must brace itself for changes. Big changes. It will end in tears, as it always does. And the BBC…
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Radio Jackie staffers young and old met to celebrate fifty years serving South West London recently. ‘The Sound of South West London’ started broadcasting in March 1969 and the radio station’s founders and many leading…
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Opinion: Michael Walbach, CEO, Central Media Group, writes about radio broadcasting into the new decade. “The media landscape may be in near-constant flux, but radio remains one of the most effective ways to reach an audience. In a…
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Opinion: Alistair Clarke, awarded an MBE for services to Social Enterprise in Lancashire this week, writes about the importance of radio in the community. “US Marine Toby Studabaker flew from America to Manchester and absconded with a…
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