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• Skinner and Baddiel to cover football World Cup for Absolute Radio

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Frank Skinner and David Baddiel to reprise double act that began on Fantasy Football League for 2010 World Cup The former Fantasy Football League hosts Frank Skinner and David Baddiel will reunite for Absolute Radio to cover the football World Cup in South Africa . The long-time collaborators and former ...
  2 days ago

• Radio in the Digital Economy Bill: House of Lords Second Reading

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  Digital Economy Bill 2 Dec 2009 @ 1539 Second Reading, House of Lords [excerpts] The First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Lord President of the Council (Lord Mandelson): We have also set out our vision for the future of digital radio, which will see the ...
  2 days ago

• Commercial radio groups unite for Cumbria flooding appeal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Advert to air on stations including the Global and GMG groups Commmercial radio companies have joined forces to broadcast a cross-network appeal on behalf of people affected by the flooding in Cumbria. Rival radio groups have previously united for overseas campaigns on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee ...
  3 days ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  3 days ago

• DAB radio UK sales: 10m in 10 years is “an incredible achievement”?

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  The Digital Radio Development Bureau [DRDB] published a press release yesterday trumpeting the “incredible achievement” that 10 million DAB receivers had been sold to date in the UK which, it said, “proves that digital radio is here to stay”. The press release was notable not for what it said, but for what ...
  4 days ago

• Radio owners pay $7m to beef up digital stations

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 690
  Commercial radio operators, led by 2Day FM owner Austereo, have paid more than $7m to buy excess spectrum allowing them to launch more digital stations and improve their existing digital offerings.   Following an auction in Sydney, Austereo, Supernetwork and Australian Radio Network (ARN) were the successful ...
  6 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  6 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  1 week ago

• DAB radio: the customer is always wrong?

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  Politicians, government, civil servants, regulators. We pay their wages. They work for us, don’t they? So why does the voice of the consumer, the citizen, the customer so often seem to be ignored or become lost when the government makes new policies or passes new legislation. DAB radio seems to be a case in point. ...
  1 week ago

• FRANCE: digital radio “already dead”?

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  “Digital terrestrial radio: already dead?” enquired the headline of a French news web site early on Thursday morning 26 November 2009. It proved to be prophetic. Only hours later, a press release was published by the Bureau de la Radio (a radio trade group comprising the largest commercial radio owners) ...
  1 week ago

• Digital Economy Bill: radio industry reaction

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  The Digital Economy Bill was published by the government last Friday. Press headlines about the radio provisions in the Bill included: Media Week : “Radio Bill creates deep divisions among industry” Radio Today : “Digital Bill inflames industry” The Telegraph : “Digital Economy Bill: no date for ...
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• Upcoming Book Breaks Down the 50 Most Influential Metal Songs of the ’80s

  
  Braingell Radio — Authority: 152
  Full Metal Jackie Certified: The 50 Most Influential Heavy Metal Songs of the ’80s and the True Stories Behind Their Lyrics is an upcoming book that provides exclusive insight into the creative process behind the top metal songs of the 1980s.  Available for pre-order now and in stores early January via Course ...
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• Commercial radio and DAB: turkeys voting for Christmas

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  Significant players in the UK commercial radio industry, along with Digital Radio UK, the Digital Radio Development Bureau, DCMS and Ofcom are all lobbying for DAB receiver take-up to be accelerated and for consumers to migrate their radio listening to DAB as quickly as possible. However, the industry’s own data ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ennals confirmed at Digital Radio UK

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Former chief executive of digital TV switchover body to lead radio equivalent Ford Ennals has been confirmed as the first chief executive of Digital Radio UK, the company charged with overseeing digital radio switchover in the UK. Ennals, former chief executive of digital TV switchover body Digital UK, will lead ...
  2 weeks ago

• “It is only in recent months … that digital radio has been a real focus and priority for the [UK radio] industry”

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  Campaign magazine, 6 November 2009 [excerpts]: KS: Karen Stacey, director of broadcast sales and brand solutions, Bauer Radio MG: Mike Gordon, group commercial director, Global Radio Why has the take-up of digital radio been so slow? KS: I dont think take-up necessarily has been slow given that it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tim Shaw to leave Absolute Radio

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Tim Shaw, the third DJ to join and then leave the rebranded Absolute Radio, is headed for the biggest challenge of his life Tim Shaw is to leave Absolute Radio, becoming the third DJ to join and then leave the rock music station since it rebranded from Virgin Radio just over a year ago. Shaw, who presented the late ...
  2 weeks ago

• O2 Joggler Gets Internet Radio

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 146
  O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) has today announced the addition of Internet Radio to the O2 Joggler, bringing over 100 radio stations to the device for free. The service, which is delivered by PURE, has now been switched on over-the-air. O2 has also reduced the price of the O2 Joggler to £99.99. PURE, working in associated with ...
  2 weeks ago

• O2 Joggler Gets Internet Radio

  
  PhoneArea.net — Authority: 159
  O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) has today announced the addition of Internet Radio to the O2 Joggler, bringing over 100 radio stations to the device for free. The service, which is delivered…
  2 weeks ago

• SWITZERLAND: five of eight DAB+ radio licences expire unused

  
  Grant Goddard : radio blog — Authority: 122
  Yesterday, five out of eight broadcast licences issued in Switzerland for DAB+ radio expired without their owners having launched the promised digital stations. According to the Klein Report , only three DAB+ stations – Open Broadcast, Radio Eviva and Swiss Mountain Holiday Radio – are now on-air, the latter ...
  2 weeks ago

• DAB radio faces threat from satellite rival

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  DAB radio the digital radio format in which the commercial radio sector and BBC has pinned its hopes and invested heavily is facing its biggest threat yet as USstyle subscription satellite radio is set to launch throughout Europe.
  2 weeks ago

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