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THE Magazine for Today's Radio Industry Now Radio OC TOB ER 6. 198 7 ISS U E # 37 -.4 .04' 441 • ea• C c, .it .it NORMAN MLEOD SAYS "WA -CH YOUR LEVELS!' IBA TO READVERTISE RADIO TELETEXT FRANCHISE EDWARD COLE RECALLS RADIO 390 HI-TECH AND IN)EPENDENT RADIO NEVS....PAUL EASTON Of LBC'S NEW PROGRAMMES PLUS LATEST REVS & ALL YOUR REGULARS!! THE Magazine for EDITORIAL Today's Radio Industry COMMENT ISS U E # 37 Now Radio OC T O BE R 6, 1987 Editor: Howard G. L. Rose ** * ** Contributors: Chris Andrew A week ago the first issue of our new publication, NOW John Lewis — Paul Easton RADIC REPORTS was mailed out Gavin Cooper — Barrie Johnston to its subscribers. Steve Hamley — Rob Chapman The idea of NOW RADIO REPORTS is to provide a Clive Glover complete and even more up- to-date service of news, United States: Graham Kennedy information, background and Job vacancy listings than is possible with this ISS 0951-7901 publ!cation which fortLightly. 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The new FM transmitter will provide In the past the chart has been a relay for OCEAN SOUND for the announced on Tuesdays, when BRUNO Winchester and surrounding area BROOKS ran down the new survey from later this year. between 5 - 7pm. The signal has been reported over The BBC say that the move to much of North Hampshire and West Sunday's 5 - 7pm will make it the Berkshire by NOW RADIO readers. most up-to -date chart "in the world". T C R They say that calculations of chart S P E C I A L E V E N T positions will take into account B R O A D C A S T G R A D E D record sales right up until the A B I G S U C C E S S close of trading on Saturday afternoon. So the new chart will be TCR, TURKISH COMMUNITY RADIO, say announced less than 20-hours after that their recent Special Event the last record has been sold. broadcasts at the Enfield Show in GALLUP, who produce the BBC chart North London were a major success. for the BRITISH PHONOGRAPHIC E X ALI, of TCR, told NOV RADIO, INDUSTRY have installed computers "The success of our broadcast must in 500 record stores around the help pave the way for Communty United Kingdom, representing every Radio. If our broadcast had been a kind of outlet from the smallest failure, it could perhaps have been independent to the largst a step backwards for the movement." superstore. The station, operated by an After the stores close on Saturday, applicant group, carried a wide GALLUP's central computer spends range of programming, including an the night automatically telephoning interview with the Mayor, and the 500 shops, collecting data from public reaction was "very good". ench of the computers and Some people travelled to the show calculating the entire TOP 100. The Just to hear the station, as did a print-out will then be delivered to group from the CRA. RADIO ONE at about 3pm on Sunday E X ALI told NOW RADIO that a full afternoon. That will leave the TOP account of the Special Event 40 show producer Just two hours to broadcast was to be sent to the prepare the broadcast. HOME OFFIC, including a request 'Saturday is a big record-buying day,' that next year they be allowed to said BRUNO BROOKS, 'so it's important that use 1 Watt transmitter power, we will be able to reflect Saturday sales, instead of 50 milliWatts. Still, I think the new chart may cause a The broadcast by TCR was the first few headaches until we get used to it, You by any ethnic group in the United see, to make the show finish on the dot of Kingdom, but the station received 7pm, we have to calculate the length of support from more than Just the all the records we want to play before we Turkish community. can put the programme together.. maybe we "There was a considerable amount of should get the computer to do that for us goodwill from all sections of the as well!' community for what we were doing and what we plan in future." G O V E R N M E N T T O of any nation. However, T O U G H E N M A R I N E after the arrest of the O F F E N C E S A C T RADIO PARADISE ship MAGDA MARIA, off Holland, the UK The British Government wants authorities are very to strengthen the Act of cautious of taking such Parliament which outlaws action in case registration Briton's working for, does actually apply to a advertising on, supplying or radio ship. In the Dutch promoting the activities of case the ship was registered Radio stations operating in Panama and the owners from ships and structures took the Dutch authorites to outside United Kingdom court for wrongful arrest of territorial waters - The their ship. The owners won Marine (etc) Broadcasting the case. Offences Act 1967. DTI officials appear The news, released in NOW concerned that offshore RADIO several months ago broadcasters have bases used exclusively, will come as as offices inside the United another worry for the Kingdom, yet the law, operators of offshore radio designed to close any loop- stations. holes to allow their activities, actually gives NOW RADIO understands that them a fair degree of the DTI is to push the protection. Government to introduce new sections into the Act which This is especially the case would allow Search warrants where the station is managed to be issued to officials by non-UK nationals, and investigating offshore where a station is not broadcasting activities. At registered as a business in present no search warrants the United Kingdom, and can be issued under the Act. where the primary function of the office is not the Government will also be management of an offshore asked to legislate to allow radio service. for the arrest of people thought to be involved in Lawyers would have to offshore radio activities. carefully draw up new legislation for the The Government will also Government, but it could look into the subject of pass into law without any arresting vessels used for opposition, as did the offshore radio stations on Territorial Sea Act, the High Seas when it is extending UK Territorial known that such ships are Waters from 3 to 12-miles, and which came into force un-registered. last Thursday, October let. In International Law, a vessel which is stateless, Stronger International Co- is not bound to be protected operation is also being sought by by any country and could be Britsh authorities for dealing arrested by the authorities with the situation. C H R I S T I A N S G E T taken on ROB McCAFFREY as its B I G G E R V O I C E permanent representative in South Shropshire. TRANS WORLD RADIO, the American- owned operation which leases Y O R K S H I R E B B C airtime via RADIO MONTE CARLO, is S T A T I O N S L I N K — U P paying £2,000,0000 for a new transmitter which it hopes will BBC local stations LEEDS, improve its reception in Eastern HUMBERSIDE AND YORK are linking Bloc countries, as well as in six evenings a week for specialist Western Europe. music programming featuring rock, classical music, brass bands, jazz, H I G H P O W E R M O U T H country and folk. F O R B R I T A I N I N BBC RADIO SHEFFIELD also Joins the H O N G K O N G network for three evenings per week at present. Bb EXTERNAL SERVICES has opened its new £9,000,000 transmitter N O A I R P L A Y F O R operation in Hong Kong.