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Radio 4's Just A Minute to celebrate 45th anniversary in India
BBC Radio 4 controller hails success of panel show, but casts doubt on the future of Archers spin-off Ambridge ExtraBBC Radio 4 panel show Just A Minute is to go to India for its 45th anniversary next...
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Put more women on radio, Woman's Hour's Jane Garvey tells BBC
Presenter hits out at preconception that listeners don't want female voices on music stations, describing it as 'utter rubbish'Woman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey has challenged the BBC to put more...
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Jarvis Cocker: the BBC is just divine | Media Monkey
Never let it be said that Jarvis Cocker isn't devoted to the BBC. Oh no. "The BBC is the nearest I have got to any form of religious faith," said the occasional Pulp frontman, who hosts a Sony...
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BBC 'could outsource local radio stations to commercial sector'
RadioCentre chief tells Radio festival corporation could cut costs by handing over entire stations to outside producersA senior commercial radio executive has offered to help the BBC cut costs from...
View ArticleMedia Talk podcast: Robbie Williams is the new Status Quo
Unlike Radio 1, we play Robbie Williams' number one single Candy on this week's Media Talk and ask whether the station was right to exclude the former Take That man from its playlist.Also this week, we...
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Billy Bragg: 'education reforms risk stifling creativity'
The singer and left-wing activist used a lecture in memory of John Peel to criticise Michael Gove's plans to scrap GCSEsSinger Billy Bragg has warned that the government's education reforms risk...
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Global Radio chief, Stephen Miron, says BBC is aping station's output
Miron labels Radio 1 'Radio One Direction' and says Radio 3's overhauled schedule mimics that of Classic FMGlobal Radio chief executive Stephen Miron has criticised "Radio One Direction" and claimed...
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Universal Music boss calls on commercial radio to do more for artists
Universal Music UK and Ireland's David Joseph says number of breakthrough British acts remains in single figures in 2012Universal Music boss David Joseph has warned that the number of breakthrough...
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ITV senior executive warns against forcing digital radio on public
ITV's managing director of commercial and online Fru Hazlitt brands the word digital 'complete bollocks'Senior ITV executive Fru Hazlitt has warned the radio industry not to force digital radio on an...
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Danny Baker inducted into Radio Academy's hall of fame
Presenter honoured at Radio Festival in eagerly anticipated appearance following on-air rant about axing of his showThere was no shortage of anticipation around Danny Baker's Radio Festival appearance...
View ArticleMedia Talk podcast: the BBC's worst week, a Radio Festival special
John Plunkett reports from the Radio Festival 2012 in Salford, where morale among BBC delegates is at an all-time low.John is joined by Paul Robinson, Moz Dee and Miranda Sawyer to discuss the...
View ArticleMedia Talk podcast: Children's BBC review, Radio Festival preview
This week John Plunkett is joined by former TV executive and director of broadcasting at City University Lis Howell and the new chief executive of the Radio Academy, Paul Robinson.Together, they...
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Radios don't just have to sound good – they need to look like cool toys too
The industry is failing to attract the next generation of listeners, while spooking its most satisfied customers, the over-50sIn his presentation on the future of the BBC, Tony Hall referred to a clip...
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Jacqui Smith: positive discrimination needed for women in radio and TV
Former home secretary says 'warm words and good intentions' are not enough to create change in broadcastingFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has called for positive discrimination to be considered to...
View ArticleMedia Talk podcast: Radio Festival special
This week on the Media Talk podcast, Mark Sweney travels to the Lowry in Salford Quays for the Radio Academy's Radio Festival. One of this year's Radio Festival hosts, Woman's Hour presenter Jane...
View ArticlePete Townshend's John Peel lecture - full text
Full text of the Who star's speech at the Radio Festival on Apple's iTunes and music piracyFirstly I'm honoured to have been asked to do this first lecture in the name of John Peel. John and I were...
View ArticleMark Thompson: BBC local radio wasn't victimised in cuts
Director general defends protection of BBC1 and Radio 4 budgets, saying they are 'unique cultural exercises'The BBC director general, Mark Thompson, has been challenged by one of his presenters over...
View ArticleMark Thompson's 2011 Radio Festival speech full text
The BBC director general on changes to the corporation and his hopes for the radio industryTomorrow marks the 75th anniversary of the launch by the BBC of the world's first continuous television...
View ArticleBBC dragging its feet on digital radio, says Global founder
Ashley Tabor tells Radio Festival that DAB coverage lags far behind FM and BBC is failing to fund regional rolloutAshley Tabor, founder of the UK's biggest commercial radio company, Global Radio, has...
View ArticlePrank call DJ: I got far more abuse than my male co-presenter
Mel Greig told the Radio Festival that the media fixated on her, while Michael Christian was excused as exuberantOne of the Australian radio DJs involved in the prank royal phone call that led a London...
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