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LATE NEWS: The opening ceremony for RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL will now take place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday May 4th, and not 8 p.m. as prviously ennounced by the station. Attendance is by invitation only. EDITORIAL COMMENT

It might be considered unfair to attempt to sway opinion, at the IBA, as to who should receive the new ILR contract for Eastbourne/Hastings: However, we are not alone in hoping that the people of this area will receive a radio station which broadcasts from within, and not outside, the community. If Eastbourne/Hastings receives a station operating from outside the area, surely we can expect to hear some angry voices in the near future. One consolation is the fact that, by the end of the decade, Eastbourne/Hastings will be able to have their very own radio station(s) courtesy of The Radio Authority and stations that are local...

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A major eff ort ot research RED ROSE RADIO have hired is starting aimed at DAVE LINCOLN as Programme locating every possible Controller. He was with RED former member of the RADIO ROSE from launch until two CAROLINE staff. years ago when he Joined Every DJ, news reader, RADIO CITY to host the programme producer, crew breakfast programme. member, sales team person, LINCOLN is also Manager- secretary and assistant who designate of the proposed has worked for RADIO second service which RED ROSE CAROLINE since 1964 needs to plans to open in Blackpool. be located by a team working He told NOW RADIO that he on a special project aiming would be carefully at marking the offshore researching what the station stations 25th anniversary should programme on its which happens next Easter. second service, taking into Former staff should contact account the recent increases NOW RADIO, and any readers in FM listening to ILR with knowledge of the services. whereabouts of any ex- The second service would be CAROLINE staffer should do waiting for agreement between the same. AIRC and PPL over needleti me allowances. N A T W E S T S P O N S O R M c K E N Z I E H I R E D B Y C O N C E R T S E R I E S R A D I O C I T Y

The NATIONAL WESTMINSTER TONY McKENZIE has Joined BANK are sponsoring a new RADIO CITY in Liverpool to I3-week concert series which host the afternoon 1300 - is being syndicated by PPM, 1600 airshift. the PICCADILLY RADIO He Joins after being with production arm. RADIO NOVA/ENERGY in Dublin. The programme is made at His first full-time CAPITAL RADIO. broadcasting Job was with The series is on offer to 22 RADIO CAROLINE. stations, 11 are believed to McKENZIE presented his first have accepted the deal show for RADIO CITY on whereby £500,000 is being Saturday (April 24th). spent on sponsorship, spot commercials and also a R A D I O N O V A telephone direct response U P — D A T E campaign. Amongst the stations taking The opening ceremony for the NAT WEST series are RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL will CAPITAL RADIO (London), now take place at 4 p.m. on PICCADILLY RADIO Wednesday May 4th, and not 8 (Manchester), BRMB p.m. as prviously announced (Birmingham) and Liverpool's by the station. Attendance is RADIO CITY. by invitation only.

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[)E E L O S E L; ()C E A N !_;()I, N D 2 0, 0 0 0 D I.S U N E WL; C OLLEC TI ON PETER SOLOMONS takes over as SIMON DEE, who has been Head of News with OCEAN SOUND working hard on his comeback on May 16. He Joins from with a weekly Saturday being deputy head of news at morning programme SOUNDS OF SWANSEA SOUND. He replaces THE SIXTIES on BBC RADIO 2 CHRIS RIDER, who Joins TVS at has had his massive 20,000 the end of April. strong record collection In the period between RIDER stolen or destroyed by leaving and SOLOMONS taking thieves. over the Acting Head of News SIMON said he returned to at OCEAN SOUND will be OCEAN his London flat to find the SOUND WEST mid morning thieves had wrecked his presenter MARK FLANNAGAN. home, stolen many of the discs and badly damaged M c F A R L A N E M O V E S those they didn't make off T O A M D R I V E with. PETER McFARLANE, the former C H A N G E F O R deputy Programme Director of R ADI O— RADI O? CAROLINE 558, (KEVIN TURNER), is moving to host the As the launch of RADIO NOVA breakfast programme on OCEAN INTERNATIONAL on May 1st SOUND NORTH from Monday May draws closer there has been 2. He'll be broadcasting speculation that VIRGIN's weekdays 0600 - 1000. He RADIO-RADIO may turn from replaces DAVID BRADFORD who plans to offer itself as an has moved to SOUTHERN SOUND overnight sustaining service in Brighton. for Independent Local Radio The evening show which had stations to a satellite- been presented by PETER delivered full-ti me radio McFARLANE will now be hosted service. This would put it by former WEST SOUND (Ayr) in direct competition with Jock KENNY McALISTER. He will CHRIS CARY's RADIO NOVA broadcast 1700 - 2100 Monday INTERNATIONAL and also leave to Thursday and 1700 - 1830 the ILR's to manage their Fridays. own programming overnight. ROB JONES of RADIO-RADIO E U R O P E' S M O S T this week said that details P O W E R F U L F M' e r of which sales houes would represent RADIO-RADIO, and KISS-FM, the Monaghan-based the final schedule, would be super-pirate beaming into announced shortly. There Northern Ireland, is now were no indications that any operating on full power and changes were being made to around the clock. the original intention of As well as being on 1008kHz being an ILR-programme AM, KISS-FM is transmitting provider. with 500kW e.r.p. making it A list of stations taking the most powerful European FM the service will also be station now broadcasting. released shortly. Station Manager is TOM HARDY.

NO W RADIO April 27, 1988 C A 12(.JI. I N E P D E X 1 T S January/February 198/, to $53.3 million, according to figures just P H I LI P S J O I N S released by the RADIO NETWORK K E N T M M E RC 1 Al- ASSOCIATION. S T A T I O N January was up 11. 17. over the same period last year, but income for PETER PHILIPS has resigned as February stayed level on last Programme Director of RADIO year's same period at $25.3 CAROLINE after three years with millions. the station. He is Joining Kent GK commercial operation INVICTA RADIO, which is programmed by U S R A D I O' S another former CAROLINE DJ ROGER B I G S P E N D E R S DAY. Reports that PETER PHILIPS was SEARS ROEBUCK was the biggest quitting the station first spender on commercial radio in the appeared in NOW RADIO several USA in 1987. months ago, but up until this week SEARS spent $73.9 million. The he had remained silent on the second biggest spender was issue. ANHEUSER-BUSCH at $67 million, However his last stint aboard the GENERAL MOTORS ($53.7 million), radio ship was very short and PHILIP MORRIS (S38.4 million) and indicated a Job was on offer. FORD MOTORS ($34.6 million). Before Joining CAROLINE, PETER PHILIPS worked with THE VOICE OF P O W E R H I K E F O R PEACE followed by South West M E RC I A London station RADIO JACKIE. At INVICTA, PETER PHILIPS will be MERCIA SOUND is about to have a presenting the 2200 - 0200 major power increase for its FM airshift and the Sunday request transmitter. programme which airs 1200 - 1500 IBA Engineers have started work on hours. the transmitter at Shilton, "It's a real scoop!" said ROGER Warwickshire, and the station hopes DAY. DAY explained when he first that, by the end of May, the heard PETER PHILIPS on CAROLINE he station's signal on 97.0 MHz will was determined to have him on his be up in power from the present 500 team. Watts to 2 kW. "It's good to know that The Lady The IBA have charged the station can still produce talent these £24.000 for the power hike. days..." he added. "I reckon there "Using the IBA's official forecast will be quite a few stations who of how it affects our reception will be envious of us at INVICTA. area, we will now take Royal We really do have a great line up Leamington Spa into our FM primary now." said DAY. service area for the first time." CAROLINE should be naming its new said STUART LINNELL, Managing Programme Director in the coming Director and Programme Controller few days, according to sources. of the station. 'We should also have a significantly U S R A D I O improved signal throughout Coventry, a R E V E N U E U P significant chunk of Warwickshire and in A O A I N South Leicestershire, well beyond Hinckley.' Network radio revenues through MERCIA SOUND's AM transmissions on 1359 kHz February were up 5.5% over will remain at the present power output.

April 27, 1988 NO W RADIO R A D I O N O V A will broadcast via INTELSAT I N TERNA TI ONAL VA F11. Programmes will be A I M S F O R beamed from transponder 63 on 3 0, 000, 000 sub-carrier frequencies 7.38 L I S T E N E R S and 7.56 MHz. The station will make RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL, extensive use of computerised Britain's first-ever music programming - an entire commercial radio station to software package has been broadcast via satellite, especially commissioned to launches Sunday May 1st. format the station. RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL Amongst the DJs signed up for will broadcast from hi- RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL will technology studios in be TONY BLACKBURN. He will Camberley, Surrey. The continue his work for BBC studios incorporate the RADIO LONDON and SKY CHANNEL, latest state-of-the-art whilst being heard on NOVA equipment. 1800 - 2100 every Tuesday RNI will be a more-music evening. He will also present service and keep talk to an NOVA's prestigious EUROPEAN absolute minimum. It will TOP 40 between 1200 - 1600 programme the hottest hits, each Saturday. 24 hours per day. PAUL BURNETT, who began his The signal will be stereo radio career with Yorkshire and available to audiences offshore station RADIO 270 throughout Europe. The then went on to MANX RADIO potential audience on cable and RADIO LUXEMBOURG has systems will be around 30 recently been broadcasting million. RADIO NOVA with ILR after a long stint INTERNATIONAL also hopes to with RADIO 1. His ILR service be re-broadcast in major includes VIKING RADIO and of markets of Europe via late CAPITAL RADIO in London. terrestrial radio stations. Paul will host the weekday Its target age group will be 1000 - 1300 airshift on NOVA. 15 - 39 years. TIMMY MALLETT of TV-AM WIDE The operation is the AWAKE CLUB will bring his brainchild of CHRIS CARY - a show to NOVA each Sunday name synonymous with morning from 1000 - 1300 innovations in the broadcast hours. field. His career to date TONY PRINCE, who since leaving includes being a DJ with RADIO LUXEMBOURG, has established RADIO CAROLINE and the late the DISCO MIX CLUB, is to host RADIO NORDSEE INTERNATIONAL, NOVA's disco night on Wednesday's Station Manager at RADIO from 1800 - 2100 hours. LUXEMBOURG and as founder MARK WESLEY, who after leaving and manager of the hugely RADIO LUXEMBOURG, moved to ILR as successful RADIO NOVA in both a presenter and producer of Dublin, Ireland. The past jingles, will present weekend shows two years have been occupied for NOVA at 1600 - 2000 Saturday establishing a major and 1900 - 2200 on Sundays. TIMOTHY satellite design, RENTON, MP, Minister of State for manufacture and sales Broadcasting will officially open company in Surrey. RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL at 8pm on RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL Wednesday May 4th.

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H(1)(; F P E A M E1; As well as the B1g Band, D E P A R T1 NLi ROGER EAMES also presented R A D I O L E I C E S T E R the RADIO LEICESTER weekly A F T E R 1 9 Y E A R S Jaz programme. His future plans include Big Band ROGER EAMES, Programme concerts and promotion of a Organiser at BBC RADIO 3-piece Jazz group - THE LEICESTER, is leaving the MANFRED TRIO. He will also be station at the end of May undertaking freelance after a massive 19-year engagements as a musician, stint with the station. broadcaster, teacher and ROGER is 48 this year and lecturer. has decided to take early retirement in order to take A T L A N T I C R E C O R D S up opportunities in S T O R Y F O R R A D I O 1 freelance broadcasting and music. RADIO 1 is running THE Whilst at RADIO LEICESTER he ATLANTIC RECORDS story each has served as deputy manager Saturday at 1400 from April to no less than six station 30th, with a repeat broadcast managers. on AM only, each Thursday at His BBC career started in 2100 hours. 1962 as a Studio Manager, ANDY PEEBLES will introduce working with the NORTHERN the programme which marks the DANCE ORCHESTRA in 40th anniversary of the Manchester. A year later he label. The programme took 6 became a Producer in London. months to produce. After briefly transferring The series includes a one- to RADIO NOTTINGHAM as music hour programme on ARETHA producer, he became RADIO FRANKLIN. LEICESTER's Programme Organiser in 1969. He was C D S T A TI O N given the brief, after the R E T U R N S T O station, the first of the L O N D O N BBC local radio network, to A I R W A V E S consolidate and professionalise the London's first unlicensed programme output while Compact Disc station CD 10/24 building up a new has resumed broadcasting as a broadcasting team. stand-alone facility and His expertise in 'live' identifying as CD93 on 93.2 music, which started with FM. the BBC in London when he The station currently aims to was a producer, became provide a service each evident from his interest in Saturday from 0600-1400 local brass bands, chirs and hours. Jazz. CD93 has brought former JFM He and his wife, CHRISTINE, Jock BRIAN ANTHONY out of formed the RADIO LEICESTER 'retirement' to be amongst BIG BAND in 1976. They won its line up of presenters. the RADIO 2 Top Senior Band The format is of contemporary Trophy twice, in 1981 and pop and rock - and all music 1985. They also won a is broadcast from Compact variety of other awards. Discs.

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April 27, 1988 N O W RADIO 3 A P P L I C A TI O N S invited to send written F O R E A S T B O U R N E comments on any aspect of the I L R F R A N C H I S E proposals to the IBA's Director of Radio. The IBA has received three Interviews with the applicant applications for the groups will take place at the Eastbourne ILR franchise. IBA towards the end of May, COAST-FM, owned by RADIO and the Authority hopes to MERCURY, the Crawley ILR announce who will run the contractor had made a bid service during June. for the franchise along with The contract will SOUTHERN SOUND, the Brighton provisionally be offered for contractor and SOUTHDOWN the period up to December RADIO. Almost at the last 1994, when the last of the minute it became known that IBA's existing ILR contracts COUNTY SOUND, the Guildford expires. It is expected that ILR contractor had Joined new legislation affecting ILR the SOUTHDOWN RADIO bid. will be brought into effect Thus no total newcomers to before that date, and the commercial radio were to be contractual arrangements for the new ILR contractors, as in the running for the franchise. for existing contractors, may The EASTBOURNE franchise need to be adapted as a also offers a relay at result. Hastings. It is an FM only service, for which the IBA SOUTHDOWN RADIO will be charging as much as £160,000 'forward-funding' SOUTHDOWN RADIO's authorised for the transmitters. The share capital at present is 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares of annual rental payment from the successful contractor to £1 each. The issued share capital will be £780,000 the IBA will amount to £21,000. Ordinary shares of £1 fully paid, with COUNTY SOUND PLC The franchise was advertised by the IBA in December last holding 49% of all issued year; the closing date was share capital. As well as COUNTY SOUND's last Wednesday April 20. A Public Meeting will be 390,000 £1 shares, RICHARD held in the Elizabeth Room, YEOWART, managing director of de la Warr Pavillion, SOUTHERN VIDEO Ltd, will have Bexhill-on-Sea at 2C00 on 10,000 £1 shares as a Tuesday May 3rd. This is founder. Other Founders with designed to give local 10,000 shares will be GARETH people an opportunity to ROGERS, a former BBC RADIO comment on the published SUSSEX Producer, and applications, question the currently promoter of applicants about their EASTBOURNE EAGLES SPEEDWAY proposals, and give their team. Local private investors will views about the local radio requirements of the area. be Rt Hon JULIAN FANE (3,000 Admission is free and no shares), D JONES (2,000), Dr. R WATSON (35,100) and S tickets will be required to TINDELL (39,000). gain admission. Individuals and organisations are also Local businesses YEOWART

•••'. % • • • • • •• e • ••••• ••• • • ••• •••••••••• • • . . . •••••••••• ••••••••• .° • ••••• . ••••• . . •• ••••••••••••• ••••••• NO W RADIO April 27, 1986 STEEL will have 25,000 broadcaster. J NORMAN CUNNINGHAM, Chairman shares and SUSSEX NEWSPAPERS will hold 39,000 shares. of COUNTY SOUND of Guildford. Other investors will include MIKE POWELL, Managing HAYMARKET PUBLISHING with Director of COUNTY SOUND. around 20% stake (156,000 SIMON TINDALL, managing shares) and LAING director of HAYMARKET CRUIKSHANK with 93,600 PUBLISHING. DR RAYMOND WATSON, chairman shares. This firm will advertise these shares of NATURAL VITALITY Ltd., and locally and underwrite them. MURIEL MARGETSON, Vice- Presidnt of the BUSINESS & SOUTHDOWN RADIO forcasts a profit of £126,000 before PROFESSIONAL WOMEN's CLUB of Hastings. taxation in the 20 months to September 30, 1990. COAST-FM SOUTHDOWN says it will use some of the most sophisticated computerised COAST - FM, which plans to have studios in both Eastbourne music programming technology and with a wide range of and Hastings says all peak time programmes will be music styles hopes to appeal produced and presented to all ages. "The accent locally. It says, because of will be on melody and the population profile, it familiarity... " says its will aim its programming at application to the IBA. older listeners (55-plus) who SOUTHDOWN RADIO plans to broadcast between 0500 - represent a third of the population, whilst at the 2200 hours on weekdays, and same time attempting to 0600 - 2200 at weekends. appeal to the 'younger It promises at least one Outside Broadcast per week. groups' as well. It also promises an extended Music would range from one lunchti me news and a 60- extreme to the other; the current top forty through pop minute current affairs oldies (they name Beatles, programme each weekday Eagles, Queen, Buddy Holly, evening. etc) and including middle - of - The company says it hopes it the-road music (Andy could be ready to commence Williams, Frank Sinatra and broadcasting no later that Barbara Streisand). 1st February, 1989. COAST-FM, mainly owned by The proposed Directors will be IAIN SUTHERLAND RADIO MERCURY, will provide hourly news bulletins (local) (Chairman). He is conductor from 0600 - 1800. They also of the WREN ORCHESTRA, which propose a headline service on is sponsored by CAPITAL the half - hour at 0630, 0730, RADIO. DERRICK STANSBY, financial 0830, 1230, 1630 and 1730. They plan a half-hour news director and Company programme each weekday Secretary of SHAPE ADVERTISING in Essex. evening. At weekends COAST-FM would RICHARD YEOWART, managing only offer two news bulletins director of SOUTHERN VIDEO locally produced: at 0900 and Ltd. 1300. It proposes a weekly GARETH ROGERS, the

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April 27, 1988 NO W RADIO round-up or local news on Intends to ott er unissued Sunday at 0830. ordinary voting shares. Chairman of COAST-FM will be SOUTHERN SOUND would appoint W A (Bill) HONEY, a a Manager to be based at chartered accountant who Eastbourne who would be lives in Eastbourne. responsible for day-to-day Managing director will be operations and managing ten JOHN AUMONIER, who is people who would be hired to managing director of RADIO work there. MERCURY. SOUTHERN SOUND claims it Other directors are DAN would have the Eastbourne BARRATT director of a large operation in a profit firm of builders in situation in its second full Eastbourne, REGINALD year of broadcasting. HARRIS, JP, MRS FRANCES The station says "a FERGUSON (prop of four significant amount" of hostels for the mentally programming would be produced handicapped). KENNETH JONES locally, whilst 'off-peak' (a Solicitor and Chairman of hours would come from the RADIO MERCURY), DAVID Brighton studio base. LAMBIRD (managing director A nightly, one-hour news of DEAN MOTORING CENTRE), programme is proposed. ERIC EPSON (a Dentist and "Studios and a back-up Director of RADIO MERCURY), studio, together with and ALAN CAFFYN (Chairman engineering maintenance and Chief Executive of support and administration, CAFFYNS PLC - a large motor already exist at SOUTHERN dealership. SOUND for the general Authorised share capital is presentation of the music £1,000,000 and the proposed programming for Eastbourne Issued share capital is and Hastings. Local news, £600,000. features and information COAST-FM believes it will would be presented from make a nett profit (before Eastbourne." says the taxation) of £150,318 in its application. first year. ADDRESSES SOUTHERN SOUND COAST-FM - RADIO MERCURY, Broadfield House, If SOUTHERN SOUND is awarded Brighton Road, Crawley, West Sussex. (0293) the franchise, it would not 519161, Contact: JOHN AUMONIER, or care of only see its service area HONEY BARRETT CO, 55, 611dredge Road, extended, but would take on Eastbourne, East Sussex, Contact: BILL board two new directors to HONEY (0323) 35951. represent the interests of the additional area. They SOUTHDOWN RADIO - Broadwater House, woulkd be PETER KENT, Chailey, East Sussex, BNB 4JE, (082 572) managing director of the 3000, Contact: RICHARD YEOVART or MIKE NOBO GROUP PLC and BILL POWELL at COUNTY SOUND (0483) 505566. UTTLEY-MOORE, managing director of COMPUTING SOUTHERN SOUND RADIO - PO Box DEVICES. 1323, Brighton, East Sussex, To cover capital expenditure BN4 255. Contact: RORY McLEOD of £400,000 SOUTHERN SOUND (0273) 422288.

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NO W RADIO April 27, 1988 A l R C D E M A N D 1 I:N 1 N S A T E L L 1 Alt: A MEND ME N TS. N E W S 6 1 D D E S P I T E 1 N V E S T I G A TI O N INDEPENDENT RADIO NEWS could be preparing to bid as the LORD YOUNG, Trade and provider of news services to Industry Secretary, has BSB's NOW channel. received a letter from the The contract could be worth ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT around £30,000,000 to the RADIO CONTRACTORS demanding successful bidder. that the Copyright Bill The bid would be made should still be amended - together with CROWN, which even though the MONOPOLIES & merges with CHALFORD MERGERS COMMISSION has COMMUNICATIONS in June. At launched an investgation present CHALFORD owns 58% of into the problems of LBC. LBC owns 40% of needleti me restrictions. INDEPENDENT RADIO NEWS. A AIRC is claiming in its third party would also be communication that there are involved in the news bid. other problems beside the monopoly held by the C R O W N G E T TI N G I N copyright bodies and the L I N E F O R R A D I O overall situation of A U T H O R I T Y 6 — PHONOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE S T A T I O N R U L E that need to be dealt with. The Government seemed to be As soon as the merger of thinking the whole issue of CHALFORD COMMUNICATIONS and needleti me, PPL and related CROWN TELEVISION is completd issued raised by AIRC could in June, the new company, effectively be put on the CROWN COMMUNICATIONS, under shelf until after the M&MC Chairman CHRISOPHER CHATAWAY had reported later in the will begin to bring its year, and after the interests in commercial radio Copyright Bill had passed into line with expected RADIO through all its AUTHORITY rules on ownership. Parliamentary stages. The RADIO AUTHORITY is to Having failed the get rule that no one company, amendments made to the Bill organisation or individual whilst it was at the Lords' may own more than six local stage, the ILR stations then commercial or community radio began approaches through the stations. Dti. At present there are 18 ILR As reported last week by NOW stations in which the group RADIO, AIRC has no plans for has interests. CROWN will any further meetings with whittle this down to six, PPL over the thorny which CHATAWAY is claiming needleti me issue. CROWN would become sole- Meanwhile a number of ILR owners of. stations are continuing to It would sell-off its plan new split-frequency interests in the non-wholly services, with COUNTY SOUND owned stations to bring leading the way with a June itself in line with the new 1, start-up date for its regulations which will be in GOLD AM and PREMIER FM. the new Radio Bill.

April 27, 1988 NO W RADIO A U S S I E R A D I O R A D I O 1 N N O E N C E, C O M P A N I E S P R E P A R E S E X A N D R A W N E S S T O B U Y O U T N E W A R E V I T A L Z E A L A N D S T A T I O N S E L E M E N T S T O P R O G R A M M E P L A N The Government of New Zealand is preparing to sell off some 30 MERCIA SOUND is planning a RADIO NEW ZEALAND owned local new style breakfast show as radio stations. part of changes brought about Indications in that country are by the departure of PAUL that foreign interests will not be ROBINSON to CHILTERN. barred from ownership and as a JEFF HARRIS has already moved result a number of major into the breakfast show, from Australian radio companies are afternoon's and he will be preparing to make bids for the Joined by an 18-year old stations. newcomer to radio, JENNIFER COSTELLO who has been N E W recruited from hospital W O R L D A T O N E radio. P R E S E N T E R Until now JENNY has been N A M E D restricted to overnight shifts. JAMES NAUGHTIE, 36, Chief "She's still at a very early political correspondent of THE part of the learning curve, GUARDIAN has been named as the new but it's that very rawness - presenter for RADIO 4's WORLD AT let's call it 'radio ONE. innocence' - that I hope we He will succeed SIR ROBIN DAY in can capture. By putting JENNY September. in harness with JEFF HARRIS I'm looking for the sexual N E W Z E A L A N D chemistry notion that TV-AM D T R E C O R D made so much fuss about with ANNE DIAMOND and NICK OWEN." "I' m very tired, but I have said STUART LINNELL, managing a day off to catch up with director and Programme sleep," said RADIO Controller of the Coventry SCENICLAND DJ JEOFF commercial station. BARRACLOUGH, as he extended "In fact, I think it will the New Zealand record for work better on radio than it continuous broadcasting to ever did on television 78 hours in Christchurch. because the relationship During his long spell at the between the two if left more mic he took quick showers to to the imagination of the help drive the sleep away. listener." he added. A sports goods shop lent him The team will air for the an exercycle which was first time next Tuesday, May parked against the broadcast 3rd, when the new style show desk. BARRACLOUGH used it is launched. between records and links. MERCIA SOUND broadcasts 24- He also raised more than hours per day on 1359kHz and $500 for the WORLD VISION 97.0 MHz FM. appeal by playing paid-for See also our report on an dedications. increase in FM transmitter power for MERCIA (Page 6).

NOW RADIO April 27, 1988 R A D l o S C O T L A N D In another move MACGREGONS D R O P S GATHERING with JIMMY MACGREGOR has W O R L D A T O N E reverted back to its old time slot of 1100 Tuesdays and Thursdays. BBC RADIO SCOTLAND has dropped the London-produced WORLD AT ONE from M A C K I N F E S TI V A L its schedules to broadcast its own S H I F T news sequence in the latest move by the Head of Radio, NEIL FRASER, JIMMY MACK has taken up residence to provide listeners with a better in a new studio at the GLASGOW service than before. GARDEN FESTIVAL and will present The new programme, THE ONE O'CLOCK his daily afternoon programme for NEWS, will be presented by MIKE 108 broadcasts starting tomorrow, RUSSELL and will run from 1300 - April 28. 1330. Programme Editor, JACK The 120-acre Festival site on the REGAN, says: "The programme will South Bank of the River Clyde will be more akin to tv's SIX O'CLOCK be the single biggest tourist NEWS, starting with the main attraction staged in Scotland for headlines and then dealing in- over fifty years. depth with the main story of the JIMMY MACK AT THE FESTIVAL will be day. It will provide world broadcast live on RADIO SCOTLAND at coverage of events from Scotland 1330 each weekday throughout the as well as dealing with events summer. The producer is MIKE from home. STANGER. The ONE O'CLOCK NEWS will also replace BBC RADIO SCOTLANDs R A D I O 2 LUNCHTIME REPORT news programme. A T F E S T I V A L It ran from 1230 - 1300 and concentrated on Scottish news. To To mark the opening of the GLASGOW fill the 1200 - 1300 slot each GARDEN FESTIVAL, gardening expert, weekday there will be a mix of ALAN TITCHMARSH, will be making feature, documentary and music contributions to BBC RADIO 2 programmes. On Monday a new series programmes throughout this Friday MEET YE MONDAY is presented by (April 29). ROBBIE SHEPPARD, with requests, In the morning he will tell DEREK dedications and music of a JAMIIIESON's listeners what the Scottish nature. This will be festival is all about and why its followed by TRAVEL TIME with the being staged in Glasgow. latest news on the travel front. Between 1100 - 1300 when ANNE Tuesdays programmes consist of ROBINSON is sitting in for JIMMY feature programmes and on YOUNG, ALAN will be interviewing Wednesday another new series: THE the chief executive of the McCALMANS & FRIENDS will precede a festival, GEORGE CHESWORTH. repeat of Sunday's PORTRAIT In the afternoon, GLORIA HUNNIFORD documentary programme. Another two will hand over to him to talk to new series runs Thursdays: NORTH some of the celebrities visiting EAST NOOK, with ROBBIE SHEPPARD, the festival, and, during JOHN featuring characters and music DUNN's show, he will look at some from the North East of Scotland of the more unusual stands and the and following that will be water festivities. MONEYLINE presented by former MP JOHN GURNETT will be the RADIO 2 GERRY MALONE who'll be giving producer looking after the days I advice on all aspects of personal output from the Garden Festival. finance.

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D I A R Y D A T E S May 17. INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY. Broadcaster of The section where NOW RADIO lists the year luncheon. Waldorf-Astoria, the important forward dates of New York . interest to radio broadacasters:

May 18-22. PUBLIC RADIO CONFERENCE. Annual meeting of NATIONAL PUBLIC April 28. COMMUNITY RADIO RADIO and AMERICAN PUBLIC RADIO. CONFERENCE for prospective new Adam's Mark Hotel, St. Louis. (202) entrants. Merseyside. Details 091 822 2000. 234 0761.

June 8 - 11. AMERICAN WOMEN IN May 1. Deadline for entries in RADIO and TV. 37th annual convention. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Westin William Penn, Pittsburgh. BROADCASTERS' Crystal Awards for excellence in local radio June 8 - 12. BROADCAST PROMOTION achievement. and MARKETING EXECUTIVES 32nd annual seminar. Bonaventure, Los Angeles. May 4. RADIO NOVA INTERNATIONAL (Satellite Link) Officially opened by June 14 - 16. INTERNATIONAL RADIO TIMOTHY RENTON, MP. 8pm. FESTIVAL OF NEW YORK. Honoring the best in radio programming. Sheraton May 4. RADIO - A SOUND Centre. INVESTMENT. Sponsored by THE RADIO ACADEMY. The Portman Hotel, London, June 18 - 21. AMERICAN ADVERTISING WI. FEDERATION, annual convention. Century Plaza, Los Angeles. May 7. RADIO IN THE '90's. Durham City. Details Mark Jones 091 234 June 20 - 24. RADIO ADVERTISING 0761. BUREAU. Sales Managers School. Wharton School of University of May 10 - 13. COMMUNICATIONS '88. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Sponsored by INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION (ITU) and July 2. NOW RADIO- RADIO. Local EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY. commercial and community radio National Exhibition Centre, exhibition and meet. Corn Hall Birmingham, England. Exchange, Kettering, Northants, England. Sponsored by NOW RADIO May 11. STARTING YOUR OWN SHOW. COMMUNICATIONS/NOW RADIO MAGAZINE. Owning and Operating a Broadcasting Tickets £10 NOW RADIO Station. Session sponsored by subscribers/f15 non -subscribers. AMERICAN WOMEN IN RADIO & TELEVISION, Washington Chapter. July 4 - 6. RADIO FESTIVAL '88. National Association of Broadcasters, Regents College, London. Sponsored by Washington, D.C. THE RADIO ACADEMY.

May 11. INTERNATIONAL MUSIC a Sept 14 - 17. RADIO '88. Sponsored MEDIA CONFERENCE. Montreaux, by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Switzerland. BROADCASTERS (NAB) Washington, D.C.

May 14. VOICE OF THE LISTENER. Sept 23 - 27. INTERNATIONAL Annual General Meeting. BROADCASTING CONVENTION. Metropole Centre, Brighton, England.

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CHRIS RAISTRICK situation, of course. It For MOM RADIO would never happen in real life - more's the pity. Imagine, if you will, a DJ Any radio buffs who saw BILL who uses the radio to rid the FORSYTH's COMFORT & JOY world of injustice, gets (Channel 4, 4/4/88) about a involved in the real world Glasgow radio DJ who becomes outside the studio, and involved in a local ice- ignores all codes of conduct, cream war between feuding written or otherwise. It Italian Scots must have had would make flippin' good a laugh at BILL PATTERSON's radio. SIMON BATES does it portrayal of the DJ with a sometimes of course, though social conscience. He walked his booming voice belies the into the office of the fact that he is stepping managing director (unless of ever-so-carefully, and local course it was the Programme radio phone-in hosts have Controller, but as he was strong opinions - or pretend wearing a white shirt and to while playing devils mid-70's knotted tie, I advocate - about what's going suspect not) and declared on in their area. But that he's reached a time in wouldn't it be good if DJs his life when he wanted to would grass instead of just do something more useful grouse. Name names instead of than just play records. He vaguely vouferating. Get was going to make a involved with the good, the documentary! "Can I borrow a bad and the ugly of the tape recorder from the world, as well as the "good" newsroom?" he enquired music. After all, in a radio innocently as the MD rolled station, of all places, you his eyes heavenwards. Our get to hear the gossip. Which hero had been dragged into 1st Division Manager has a the whole sorrid mess taste for Cocaine? I could because the McABES who ran tell you down the tele (but an ice cream business had not the micro-) phone. OK, their patch encroached upon one might degenerate into the and wanted to use him as a realms of tabloidism here, mediator. After all, he was though of course many a respected figure of broadcasters use the popular society wasn't he, being on press as a source of the radio and all that. 'information' anyway, but it (Don't snigger). And so it would be interesting if the came to be that the no-man's land between new and Glaswegian DJ was suspended music was breached. Perhaps from his show because he the reason why it s not is kept on passing messages because the world of pop from one side to the other music and the world of news via the airwaves. He just are at opposing ends of a wanted to get the rivals to spectrum which places

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NO W RADIO April 27, 1988 everyday life somewhere in for reasons of practicality between The Odd News item if nothing else, that a might directly affect your newsreader is present.:-.,7, - life, say about plans to story, fairly and squarely. build a swimming pool at the Anyway - which DJ wants to end of your street, and so taint his ideal world of might the odd record

Bringing journalism and To return to the programme music closer together has COMFORT & JOY, being a comedy already worked on TV. THE turned out fine in the end. TUBE dabbled in it, CHANNEL The DJs BMW got repaired, the 4's NETWORK 7 did it, and two sides got together, and WIRED, the TUBE's successor, it ended withour hero, having is going to try it. With the returned to the air, benefit of visuals, however, presenting his Christmas Day it is easier to mix the two show while drinking a bottle entities. PAUL HARDCASTLE's of whisky, and far away from "19" was entertaining, but the real world of radio where would hardly have been so presenters get carpeted for thought - provoking as well attacking Fergie's dress had it not been accompanied sense, everyone lived happily by a video showing the ever after. The DJ remained horrors of the Vietnam war. Just that: He never needed to In radio, things aren't so make that documentary expose easy. If a DJ does talk in the end. No news is good about the news he lays news - for the DJ anyway. himself open to criticisms of bias. We have to assume,

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April 27, 1988 NO W RADIO L. 0 0 S E E S S E X D O E S T H E S P L I T S E N D S From this Saturday (April 30), eti ESSEX RADIO is offering a split- MUST GO: It's not often the NOW frequency service between 1500 - RADIO 'phone rings and a Programme 1800 hours. Controller says: "I want to get FM will carry ESSEX RADIO's normal rid of one of my presenters....can GREATEST MEMORIES and LATEST HITS we send him to the VOICE OF format with BARRY JONES. On AM PEACE?!" Happened last week listeners will be able to hear SPORTS ACTION - a brand-new three MORNING, GIRLS!: ANDY ARCHER has hour sports programme presented by moved from breakfast to mid- the station's head of sport, ROGER morning airshift on RADIO BUXTON. ORWELL 6 N E W C A B L E MERIKE: NOW RADIO correspondent F R ANC HI SES and broadcaster STEVE MERIKE is currently on a fact-finding visit The CABLE AUTHORITY is inviting to Australia. He returns to the applications for six more cable United Kingdom in early May and franchises. These are in addition will then be filing a major to the 25 areas for which analysis of the Australian radio franchises have already been industry for NOW RADIO awarded or advertised. The six new areas are: THAMES POWER: CAROLINE are only ESTUARY NORTH (221,000 homes producing around 3kW transmitter around Southend, Canvey, Benfleet, output on 558kHz - but reception Basildon, Stanford le Hope, is being reported as very good Brentwood, Billericay, Wickford, from a wide area of the country. Rayleigh and Chelmsford. Deadline We've even heard from one person for applications 18th July, 1988.) who can hear it clearly in the THAMES ESTUARY SOUTH (145,000 Channel Isles homes around Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Maidstone and RED ROSE: Expect DAVE LINCOLN Sittingbourne. Deadline 20th July, (see report in news section) to 1988). join RED ROSE as Programme NORTH WEST LONDON (280,000 homes Controller by July In Hammersmith, Fulham, Brent and Barnet. Deadline 25th July, 1988.) APRS: The 1988 APRS (Association AVON (300,000 homes around of Professional Recording Studios) Bristol, Bath, Portishead, exhibition will be on 22-24 June Nailsea, Clevedon, Weston-Super- at Olympia in London. Further Mare, Thornbury, Chipping Sodbury, details from HAZEL SPIVEY on Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome and (0923) 772907 Warminster. Deadline 27th July, 1988.) CITY: With the departure soon GREATER LONDON EAST (229,000 homes from RADIO CITY of DAVE LINCOLN we in Redbridge, Barking, Dagenham should assume a vacancy will exist and Bexley. Deadline 8th August, 1 there for a new daytime presenter. 1988.) Out with those aircheck tapes. THAMES VALLEY (215,000 homes JICRAR figures and your up-to-date around Reading, Wokingham CV's Bracknell, High Wycombe, Marlow.

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NO W RADIO April 27, 1938 Henley, Newbury, Thatcham and N O W R A D I O Basingstoke. Deadline 10th August, B O A T T'R I 1988.) These franchises will bring to a Saturday May 14th, Is the total of 4.4 million the homes date set for the NOW RADIO covered by cable franchises. This trip by ship to visit RADIO is around 20% of the homes in the CAROLINE aboard the m. V. country. More areas for cable ROSS REVENGE in franchises are likely to be International Waters. announced by THE CABLE AUTHORITY There are still places in the next few months. aboard our vessel at £25 JON DAVEY, Director General of THE each from NOW RADIO, Boat CABLE AUTHORITY, said: "This is Trip, PO Box 45, Kettering, the first time that we have NN16 ONW. advertised six franchises at the The journey will start at It same time. It reflects the 0800 from St rood Pier, Kent, acceleration in our franchising which is on the mainline BR programme arising from from London and the trip strengthening interest in the should take around 12 hours future of cable. In all. "Already this year we have awared two new franchises (Kensington and Chelsea, and Andover), have one _other (East Lancashire) under consideration and have called for COMPLETE & RETURN THIS applications for one of the BOOKING FORM TO: largest cable franchises in Europe NOW RADIO, Boat Trip, PO Box (Birmingham and Solihull)." 45, Kettering, Northants, The number of homes receiving NN16 ONW. cable television (and radio) on Ii January 1st was 254,508, NAME' representing 18.7% of the homes to which cable could be made ADDRESS. available. The Authority is looking for applications which demonstrate the best prospect of exploiting the enourmous potential that broadband cable offers, not only for POSTCODE' multichannel choice of television and radio but for interactive TELEPHONE. services and the competitive provision of telecommunications I wish to fully book services. place(s) on the NOW RADIO Of the 23 franchises so far trip to see RADIO CAROLINE awarded, only 11 have switched on, on Saturday May 14, 1988. and none of those has completed the construction of the system Please find enclosed f Decisions on the franchises now being advertised are likely to be prices: Tickets £25 each. announced by the CABLE AUTHORITY during November and December this year. Details from CABLE AUTHORITY (01) 821 6161.

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O E M N O One area where you should be O N M H E A I R devoting considerable time to is that of programme The eighth in a series of research. With one ILR after on-going articles looking at another having a real issues involved in preparing headst art over you, and for applicati ons for pressing ahead with their licences for local split-frequency plans, you commercial and communit y may need to reassess some of radio services under the new your original plans. If you Radio Authority were planning to run golden oldies, and the near-by ILR is about to do that on AM, what will you do now? You "Should we not wait for the could still do an oldies new radio bill to go through format, but you should look Parliament, before we even carefully into what the ILR begin to plan our stati on?" is doing, and where the gaps That was a question asked are that you and your recently by one NOW RADIO station could fill, and win reader, and one question I an audience to sell to your wish to deal with this week. advertisers. It is possible to counter-programme with the You could certainly 'down same format, but with some tools' and wait for the slight alterations (known in radio bill to pass through the business as 'fine- Parliament. You could even tuning') which could result wait for the new Radio in (a) stealing all their Authority to be officially audience (b) winning some, or established and wait for it (c) both stati ons failing. to advertise for the first applications for licences You'll also have to beware of before you do anything formats that, whilst appeal whatsoever. to you, personally, will not work in your market. A Hot But, if you do, you'll Hits station might work in discover that everyone else the near-by city or large has used the period, town, but not in an area full probably a year or so, to do of retired people. That's a great deal of groundwork. where you should investigate They'll have much more than something like Easy a simple headstart over you Listening, or Middle of the and your organisation. Road, or even Beautiful They'll probably also have a Music. What about Religious few of your prospective Music, or Jazz, or Lush staff! Strings and things...

Whilst you don't No. Whatever you may think, particularly need to go to or feel, don't waste any of vast expense, there are many the time available between jobs that can, and should, now and this time next year. be done now. We have already Use it for careful planning, outlined a number of these and don't leave it until the In past issues of NOW RADIO. very last minute.

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NO W RADIO April 27, 1988 V A C A N C I E S their planned expansion. Send cv and demo tape to: SANDY WILKIE, Station RADIO FORTH has a vacancy for Manager, RADIO TAY, PO Box 123, JOURNALIST EJLR1] to join its busy Dundee, DD1 9UF news department. Applications should be sent to DAVID JOHNSTONE, RADIO INVICTA RADIO have an opening for a FORTH, Forth House, Forth Street, BREAKFAST PRESENTER. If you're witty Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 3LF and intellegent then send a recent aircheck cassette and your c.v. to TFM RADIO is seeking to hire a ROGER DAY, Programme Controller, PRESENTATION MANAGER to lead a INVICTA RADIO, 15 Station Road East, highly motivated team of jocks, and Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2RB to present programmes. Send your cv and aircheck by Monday April 18th RADIO BROADLAND is looking for a to: BRIAN LISTER, Programme PRESENTER for a daytime slot. Must Controller, TFM RADIO, Stockton on be someone currently working in IR. Tees, TS18 1HB Send aircheck and CV to: MIKE STEWART, Programme Controller, RADIO BBC RADIO SOLENT has a vacancy for BROADLAND, Colegate, Norwich, Norfolk, a NEWS PRODUCER. Based Southampton. NR3 1DB Salary up to £15,388 plus £1,066 p.a. allowance. Application form available SOUTHERN SOUND want a PROGRAMME from Recruitment Services, BBC, MANAGER to stengthen its Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, presentation department. You'll be Bristol, 858 2LR. Quote Ref: 9091 working with the Programme Controller to organise and shape the A NEWS PRODUCER is needed at BBC station's output. Write with c.v. to RADIO CLEVELAND in Midlesbrough. JEREMY SCOTT, Programme Controller, Salary f10,881 - £15,388 plus £1,066 SOUTHERN SOUND RADIO, PO box 1323, p.a. allowance. Contact JOHN WATSON Brighton, Sussex BN4 2S5 or 'phone or PETER DODSON at RADIO CLEVELAND him now on 0273-422288 on 0642 225211

SOUTHERN SOUND require a SENIOR NEWS PRODUCERS are also required by JOURNALIST with first-class skills RADIO LANCASHIRE. Salary f10,881 - and a great voice. CV and cassette £15,388 plus £1,066 p.a. allowance. to: TIM LOCKE, News Manager, Ref: 9109. Application forms from SOUTHERN SOUND RADIO, P.O. Box 1323, BBC North West Recruitment, New Brighton, Sussex, BN4 25S Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ RADIO AIRE is looking for an experienced REPORTER and also a RADIO CUMBRIA have openings for SPORTS EDITOR. Write with CV to JOHN REPORTERS. There is one permanent SHIRES, News Editor, RADIO AIRE, PO staff vacancy at Whitehaven, as well Box 362, Leeds, LS3 ILR. Or 'phone as contract opportunities of up to 6 (0532) 457822 months duration at Carlisle, Barrow or Whitehaven. Ref: 9112. Application PLACEMENT OF VACANCIES IN forms from BBC North West THIS SECTION IS FREE TO Recruitment, New Broadcasting House, SUBSCRIBERS. Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 151 SEND DETAILS TO: OPENINGS, NOW RADIO, PO BOX 45, RADIO TAY has an opening for a KETTERING, NORTHANTS, NN I b BREAKFAST PRESENTER. They are also ONW. seeking demo tapes from others for

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April 27, 1988 (DN Y P A L)] 10 Years After' (RADIO TRENT , • titi BEST LOCAL RADIO PROGRAMME: 'Oliver's The BBC were the runaway winners Story' BBC RADIO LEICESTER at this years SONY RADIO AWARDS held on Monday at London's BEST COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMME: Grosvenor House Hotel. 21 awards 'Roghe Sate (Good Health) (BBC went to the BBC, with RADIO 4 EXTERNAL SERVICES/PASHTO SERVICE) taking no less than 10 of those. ILR took home half-a-dozen awards. BEST CHILDRENS PROGRAMME: 'It's The awards went as follows: Russell Harris' (BBC RADIO HUMBERSIDE)

BEST DRAMA PRODUCTION: 'News of LOCAL RADIO PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR: the World' (BBC WORLD SERVICE) Barbara Sturgeon (BBC RADIO KENT)

• BEST ACTOR: Edward Petherbridge BEST OUTSIDE BROADCAST: 'Mainline - (BBC RADIO 4) The Operation' (BBC RADIO CLEVELAND)

BEST ACTRESS: Harriet Walter (BBC RADIO ACADEMY AWARD FOR THE MOST RADIO 4) CREATIVE USE OF RADIO: 'Mauthausen 1 Concentration Camp' (MORAY FIRTH BEST MAGAZINE PROGRAMME: Medicine RADIO) Now (BBC RADIO 4) BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT: 'Village Fete' BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMME: (BBC RADIO 4) Morning Merseyside (BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE) BEST DRAMATISATION: 4:heap in August' (BBC RADIO 4) RADIO REPORTER OF THE YEAR: Lindsay Taylor (LBC/IRN) FOR TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE ACHIEVEMENT IN BROADCASTING: 'Viva SPORTS BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR: Verdi, Part l' BBC RADIO 4 Terrence O'Donohue (BBC RADIO WALES) OUSTANDING SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY BY A LOCAL STATION: Campus Radio on BEST DOCUMENTARY/FEATURES Radio Tay (RADIO TAY) PROGRAMME: 'Waiting for Mrs Forbes' (BBC RADIO 4) SMASH HITS LOCAL DJ OF THE YEAR: James Whale (RADIO AIRE) BEST USE OF COMEDY: 'Crisp and even brightly' (BBC RADIO 4) SMASH HITS NATIONAL DJ OF THE YEAR: Mike Smith CBBC RADIO 1) BEST POPULAR MUSIC PROGRAMME: 'The Eric Clapton Story - Behind the RADIO PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR: Alan Mask' (BBC RADIO 1) Freeman (CAPITAL RADIO)

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC PROGRAMME: SONY GOLD AWARD FOR OUSTANDING Kaleidescope - Tomtiticketatom CONTRIBUTION TO RADIO OVER THE (Bolero) (BBC RADIO 4) YEARS: Gerard Mansell CBE

BEST SPECIALIST MUSIC PROGRAMME: SPECIAL AWARD FOR SERVICES TO RADIO: 'Before the blues' (BBC RADIO 3) Thena Heshel (BBC RADIO 4)

BEST POP MUSIC PROGRAMME: 'Elvis - (More on this subject next week)

April 27, 1988 NO W RADIO (DP E NI N G.S !EX T R A P U P P I R A T E O U13 T E D B Y PI C C A D I L L Y BBC RADIO NEWCASTLE - The Spirit of the North-East - require a SAM BROWN has been ousted by daytime AIR PERSONALITY. Have you Manchester's PICCADILLY RADIO, go what it takes to win today's where he was an overnight adult radio listener? If you have presenter, because he continued to the skills needed to anchor a broadcast over an unlicensed range of programmes from news and station in the Moss Side area. current affairs to entertainment and music, then send a CV and R 0 S ' 0 recent cassette aircheck (non- R A M B L I N G S returnable) to: TONY FISH, Station Manager, BBC RADIO NEWCASTLE, Not much space left this week, so a Newcastle, NE99 1LR few mumblings and that's that! First of all there is come concern C A P I T A L R A D I O & over what may happen on CAROLINE M A N S F I E L D now that PETER PHILIPS has departed :y. T E L E V I S I O N F O R M for the newly revamped (under the I M A C T V expert hands and ears of ROGER DAY) INVICTA RADIO. I can only say that CAPITAL RADIO plc and the departure of PETER PHILIPS, MANSFIELD TELEVISION even if only shortly after the exit HOLDINGS have formed a new of KEVIN TURNER, should not cause company, MAC TV Ltd, to too much concern. The station will develop opportunities in the continue to use the PHILIPS' format fetid of tv production. until somebody else is appointed. CAPITAL have a 50% stake in Whoever that person is, you can bet the new company. your bottom dollar (won on LOTTO 6/49) that the management will N A M E C H A N G E F O R instruct that person to maintain L E E D S P I R A T E the figures, or increase them. Not lose them It should be an HORIZON FM, a Leeds-based interesting time - but perhaps more unlicensed station, has about that next time. undergone a name-change and The BBC last year covered the SONY is know identifying as RADIO AWARDS on RADIO 4 and did an PEOPLES FM. excellent Job. It was thus more A spokesman for MCR told NOW than disappointing to hear the poor RADIO this week that the coverage given this year on the city's three regular pirate GLORIA HUNNIFORD show on RADIO 2. stations are organising a The intrusion of records at vital series of Joint promotions moments in the awards, and the in the summer. unnecessary interview with SARAH •••.. GREEN were Just two points against L O N D O N C O U N T next years' broadcast being made on this particular network. The number of regularly A sad point was the number of heard unlicensed radio winners not at the event "due to ". stations operating in the their commitments in television..." London region has not Finally, whoever took SIMON DEE's decreased. 20,000 records - please, please Recent count showed some 30 return them.... stations broadcasting. See you next week! HGRL K

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NO W RADIO April 27, 1988 1 1 I1'J( 1 /‘ 1 . THE REACTIVE NCI PLE " I' 12 I y . . . This works in quite the opposite way. Specifications may be issued, but NOTES BY NORMAN McLE00 they are in effect only guidelines, and absolutely nothing is done about Last week we looked at the broad anyone's conduct unless and until principles behind radio regulation. someone complains about it. Let's turn now to how standards can be set and maintained in practice. This approach is cheap, easy-going and flexible. But if it becomes too We'll look at two quite different lax and laissez faire, there's a risk approaches: the 'proactive' principle, that officials could be involved in and the 'reactive' system. as much work solving problems reactively as they would have been PROACTIVE PRINCIPLE preventing them proactive * And the fact that a problem has occurred This way of working specifies in means that someone, somewhere, has great detail every possible aspect of been upset. the station's performance, and sends out an official or two, armed with a No-one wants to be associated with spec. sheet and a Range Rover full of aggro: neither the Authority, nor the test equipment, to make sure that stations, to be sure. everything complies with the ipecification before it's allowed on The best answer may be neither the air. wholly proactive, nor wholly reactive, but exploits the most useful aspects This is the approach favoured by the of each approach. A wise attitude IBA, since it creates well-paid jobs would take into account the power, for their engineers to do. It has and therefore the interference risks, the advantage that poor quality is of the station's transmitter. ruthlessly removed from the system from the word go, so that - for It is more important that the high- example - no-one in the ILR system power transmitters be carefully would shock the world by putting out supervised, because their stereo crosstalk less than 45dB down interference potential is greater. at mid-band, for fear of arousing the So a more proactive approach is taken wrath of their masters. with high-power transmitters, and the lower the power, the less fuss is SO it leads to a lot of fuss about made, until stations like student or things which no-one outside the IBA hospital outfits enjoy a wholly cares tuppence about. reactive technical regime.

It also costs the earth. Enforceable specifications should cover only the vital 'safety' It also runs contrary to the whole parameters: POWER, FREQUINCY, ethos of a 'light touch', which the BANDWIDTH and n u m Everything Government is keen on applying to the else should be for guidance only, but Radio Authority's affairs. no less specific, and capable of test and demonstration. The alternative approach is called the 'reactive' principle, and it will --- MORE REIT WEEK --- be quite a novel experience for our technical regulators. C N I McL 1988 ---

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