Radio Stuff
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Union City Blues (and Country)
NIGHT SEVEN – 26th MARCH 2011 MUSIC CITY It’s Saturday night and already things are hotting up in Nashville, apart from the temperatures that is. Today’s rain and cloud has been blown along by a chilly breeze, and as I walk down Broadway the crowds are gathering at the local ice arena for a…
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God’s Own Country (and Western)
DAY 5 – 24th MARCH A relatively early start today for the 400 mile drive to Memphis. After my earlier experiences with driving from the airport, I wasn’t especially looking forward to it. But Axel’s looked after the hire car well – and I drive it from the car park to the front of the hotel.…
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Exclusive : Jealousy Reigns
Andy Gray and Richard Keys – the saviours of talkSport? Commercial radio’s big business. Unlike the BBC, it relies entirely on advertising and private investment to keep going. So perhaps it’s no surprise that, from time to time, the green eyed monster takes over some of those running the sector. Scott Taunton, the boss of…
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Accountability – Right On Your Doorstep
BBC Radio Leicester : Original Journalism and And Accountability We all like to know how our taxes are spent. But getting the details isn’t always straightforwad. Thank goodness, then, for BBC Radio Leicester, which yesterday revealed the cost of policing a march by the English Defence League. The journalism behind this story wasn’t rocket science. The story came…
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How Local News Can Flourish
Plurality matters in the bigger picture The Culture Secretary is backing plans for a new Channel 6 for TV. It’s primary purpose would be to provide regional and local news in key locations across the UK. But is there a danger that this will allow other broadcasters to abandon their own local content? A couple…
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Hunt : A Beacon of Avoiding The Issue
Hunt by name… you can make the rest up A few weeks ago is was all smiles and jokes when the Today programme’s Jim Naughtie mispronounced the Culture Secretary’s surname. Countless commentators speculated whether the BBC presenter had deliberately called him a c**t in the run up to the eight o clock news. There were no…
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Democracy In Action
Without local radio, where’s local accountability? I’ve just finished a fairly busy shift in the newsroom. It started with getting an update on the partial closure of our local A&E Department because of a flood. Then there were a couple of noteworthy overnight fires. And after that I interviewed the leader of a new…
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What A Difference A Day Made
The Media Trust is backing Local Radio It’s been an interesting day. It started with the NUJ’s General Secretary, Jeremy Dear, speaking on BBC Radio Nottingham* about the plans to merge Local Radio with Five Live. By mid morning we’d had emails from the controllers of Local Radio and Five Live insisting it was “just an idea”…
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The Plot Thins…
So after a flurry of activity in this morning’s papers, it turns out we’re not expecting a briefing at all. In fact, the Controller of English Regions inists that the merger of Local Radio with Five Live has barely gestated, let alone been born. From the controller And, as I indicated a little earlier, it…
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Local Radio – Read All About It
Local Radio – Right Up Your Street Rarely has BBC Local Radio ever enjoyed as much coverage as it did in today’s papers. Unfortunately this was in response to the proposals to merge the network of 40, distinct, award winning stations with 5 Live. And it wasn’t even the usual suspects. The Sun’s coverage…
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