[cma-l] eRADIO - 28 January

[James Cridland]

What it doesn't say is that Roy is also the co-founder of Ribble FM, a
community radio station for Clitheroe. That's pretty important disclosure,
I feel.

Not that it makes his views any less correct; but it can't fail to colour
them a little.

(Disclosure: I run media.info which competes with Radio Today in certain
markets, particularly jobs).

//j

On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 10:40:38 AM Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Can I recommend that you read  "Roy's Radio Ramble?
> This is a professional view on the CR situation from Roy Martin -
> essentially a child of the true ILR format - and I feel firmly backs up the
> concerns of our small Industry sector.
>
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> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 04:39:16 -0500
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> To: ian at transplan.uk.com
> Subject: eRADIO... with Broadcast Bionics 28 Jan
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>  #eRADIO with Broadcast Bionics - 28 Jan Looking for the latest radio
> news in your inbox each morning? Click here. * BBC Local Radio - how can it
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> * BBC Local Radio - how can it bring back sexy? * One year since the
> launch of KIIS 106.5 Sydney * Radio events, birthdays and anniversaries *
> The Quiet Death of the late-night DJ * Snaps - Photos from around the
> radio industry
> [image: Roy s Radio Ramble]
> Community Radio - the missed opportunity?
>
> This time last week I was a little excited for the announcement
> <https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1422437599-d31f8a19682847b0b3c4e32a893aa34b-a883667?pa=27912884475>
> of the new Community Radio Order. But sadly it was about as appropriate as
> sharing a creme egg.
>
> The opportunity to change the way community radio lives and survives could
> have been changed, but instead we get a buffer zone of just over £1,000 per
> month which can be raised before the age-old 50% rule kicks in.
>
> But the real shocker was RadioCentre's reaction
> <https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1422437599-65911ed03777513cf10f4fa20dd08cca-a883667?pa=27912884475>
> to it. They said it "is a concern for commercial stations."
>
> They issued a statement as soon as the news was announced, suggesting they
> just might have had access to the announcement before the rest of us. It
> said:
>
> "The changes proposed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
> risk blurring the lines between community and commercial stations and puts
> them in direct competition for limited local advertising, alongside local
> press, local television and online."
>
> This seems a little over the top. If RadioCentre thinks commercial radio
> stations are really going to suffer because a low-power community radio
> station serving a small part of its TSA can now fight for a thousand pounds
> worth of advertising, then we are really in a bad way. Local community
> websites are bringing in more, and potentially offering a bigger threat.
>
> In reality, everything will continue as it was and even more community
> radio stations will close thanks to the decreasing amount of sources
> offering grants and community funding.
> *Roy* *Roy Martin
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> is Managing Editor of RadioToday.*
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> [image: Featured Article]
> Local Radio - how can it bring back sexy? An #eRADIO article by Justin
> Kings
> [image: images 1]
>
> BBC Local Radio and sexy. I accept this may be the first time ever you
> have read a sentence with these words in it but my question is serious and
> it is a very personal one for me, so please keep reading.
>
> You see my love affair with radio started more than 30 years ago with my
> then local station, BBC Radio Northampton. Apparently in the mid-Eighties
> it was a rebellious star in the network, nicknamed "commercial radio
> without the adverts".
>
> Young, enthusiastic but hugely warm broadcasters such as Howard
> Stableford, who went onto BBC's Tomorrow's World, and Martin Stanford, now
> Sky News star, ruled the local airwaves. They talked everyday about where
> we lived and, even as a kid, we connected. They became heroes to me. As a
> 13 year old I struggled to believe that this big, shiny, sexy radio station
> broadcast down the road from me.
>
> Ok, it was a different time (let's face it a different century) but there
> are learnings. BBC Radio Northampton of 1984 was bold, fresh sounding and
> continually upbeat. (Can you think of a certain RAJAR busting national
> station from the BBC that currently exudes these characteristics?) BBC
> Northampton was what I would call a sexy listen. So, the question for me is
> how can the network bring sexy back?
>
> In his much debated blog post, John Myers asks where is the vision? I
> would reframe this slightly and ask, after monumental changes in our
> industry, what is BBC Local Radio? I was Assistant Editor at BBC London
> from 2007-2008, probably the best job I have ever had by the way, and in a
> market well served by clearly defined radio stations, I often wondered
> where it left us. I would say this has been one of the smartest moves of
> LBC over the years, clearly and confidently positioning itself as a
> news/talk station, "Leading Britain's Conversation".
>
> I do not think it is an easy question for BBC Local Radio management to
> answer but for me it is fundamental - for listeners and staff. It is not
> enough to think that in a market of increasingly networked content, BBC
> Local stations are genuinely local because the likes of Capital, Heart,
> Smooth and increasingly Bauer's City stations are so smart at localising
> the audience doesn't know the difference.
>
> So, is it the speech? If it IS, then isn't BBC Radio York, for example,
> "Talk Radio For North Yorkshire"? Admittedly it doesn't tell the whole
> story but it focuses on what makes BBC Local Radio unique and unique
> locally. It's a starting thought at least.
>
> What of that speech? I want to focus on news which John Myers feels there
> is presently too much emphasis on. Perhaps he would be happier if the
> definition of news was broadened out and teams were encouraged to be more
> creative. For me, local journalism is very important but so is creating
> unmissable radio.
>
> Let me unpack this. Typically with BBC Local Radio I find engaged
> journalists (reporters and producers) who work really hard and care an
> awful lot. Fantastic! But often I feel they are trying to cover too many
> local stories. Resources then get stretched and it can result in frankly
> average packages or radio car hits.
>
> So, let me make a few suggestions: What if News and Programme Editors took
> bolder decisions? Focused on 3 or 4 local stories a day to cover? Used this
> time to think of fresh new ways to tell stories? Experimented with
> treatments? Got listeners talking?
> [image: images]
>
> I was honoured to be a judge of the network's Gillard Awards this year and
> I can tell you the quality of news content was extremely high. Again,
> fantastic! BBC Local Radio is still breaking big stories, such as BBC WM's
> Trojan Horse scoop last year. This was a local story it invested time into,
> stuck with, owned and it made a big impact. I think the network needs to
> make more of these impacts and it shouldn't be shy about claiming them
> either. LBC does it almost weekly through the A List politicians it
> attracts to its super branded, You Tube streaming radio station.
>
> It aims high, it is bold and it reaps the results.
>
> I worked for many years in commercial radio with the Managing Editor now
> charged with developing the BBC Local network and I would say his
> appointment is a very positive one. He's served his time in news and
> programming roles and I have always found him to be ambitious, bold,
> creative and committed to talent. He's a good guy. Most importantly he's a
> radio guy.
> And let's not lose sight of the many positives within BBC Local Radio.
> Brilliant formats such as Robert Elms' wonderful championing of local
> culture on BBC London every lunchtime.
>
> An example of non-news but local compelling speech I would want other
> stations to learn from. Also, I would mine the rich experiences and lessons
> from the genius story tellers on air everyday across England to support
> training and development, the likes of Sheffield's Toby Foster and Rony
> Robinson.
>
> I am a glass half full kind of bloke and I believe there is so much
> potential and, as uncomfortable as the debate may have been for Local Radio
> managers over the past week, it does show as an industry we care about BBC
> Local Radio. Without its inspiration 30 years ago I probably wouldn't be
> writing this now.
>
> *By Justin Kings who enjoyed 25 years in local radio before becoming a
> consultant and trainer, working worldwide specialising in news/talk radio
> and social media. Find him on Twitter @newsleader
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> The Quiet Death of the late-night DJ An article by Andrew Gray
> <https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1422437599-0e66469b028a662b5006f77cf65c2f82-a883667?pa=27912884475>,
> Freelance Journalist
>
> The nocturnal radio host is a familiar figure from movies and TV dramas --
> but the BBC has decided it can't afford a real one.
>
> To explain his love of radio, John Peel, the late and much lauded BBC
> Radio 1 DJ, often recalled a night in the 1960s when he lived in the United
> States:
>
> *I was driving back once from New Orleans and it was about 3 o'clock in
> the morning, and I was in the car on my own and I'd left my two friends
> down in New Orleans, because in those days before we knew about sexism, we
> used to follow the fortunes of a young woman who was called 'Chris Colt,
> the girl with the 45s', and we used to follow her around from strip joint
> to strip joint.*
>
> *And I was driving back, as I say at 3 o'clock in the morning -- moonlit
> night, driving through the piney woods of East Texas, and dead straight
> road, just rising and falling through the woods -- and every once in a while
> you came across a little wide place in the road, which would be a small
> town, or village really, but they don't call them villages.*
>
> *And as I came up over the top of one hill -- and the moon was right at the
> other end of the road so you've got this kind of silver ribbon of concrete
> in front of you -- and Elmore James' 'Stranger Blues' came on, which starts
> off "I'm a stranger here / I just drove in your town". And as I came down,
> I was whizzing through this little town -- and it was just the perfect
> record in the perfect context, and I've never forgotten the setting. And I
> love the idea of perhaps just once in every programme, once in every month,
> being able to imprint something that firmly on somebody else's memory, you
> know?*
>
> That powerful, personal connection between broadcaster and listener is one
> of radio's enduring strengths. The relationship between the lone,
> late-night DJ and the listener, often also on their own, can feel
> especially close. The broadcaster's words and music tell the solitary
> driver, the insomniac, the invalid, the shift worker: You are not alone.
>
> Now, suppose you are driving along a moonlit road in Britain in 2015, just
> after 3 a.m. Or you find yourself awake at that time. You tune to the
> nation's most popular radio station for some company.
>
> It turns out you are alone.
>
> There will be some chat and music but the programme will be a repeat or a
> pre-recorded show. That's because BBC Radio 2 decided a few months ago that
> it would no longer employ a human to talk and play records through the
> night.
>
> The late-night radio host is a recognisable figure in popular culture,
> portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the film Play Misty for Me and Gary Cole in
> the TV show Midnight Caller. But the threat to overnight Radio 2 came not
> from a knife-wielding listener declaring undying love as in Play Misty, but
> an axe-wielding manager complaining about budgets.
>
> Radio 2 has £46 million to spend this year but controller Bob Shennan said
> budget cuts meant the station had to make "the tough decision to reduce the
> number of hours of live programming overnight".
>
> Shennan's message seemed to be: we need all our cash just to do things
> that are popular and public-service. Having someone talking and playing
> records through the night may not be hugely popular but it is a public
> service, just as much as a documentary or a specialist music show.
>
> By definition, the audience at that time is marginalised. These are people
> who do not work or sleep at the same time as most of us. Often they are
> low-paid shift workers or people who can't sleep due to illness or stress.
>
> It also seems strange to end live overnight radio in an increasingly
> 24-hour society, with more people working at night.
>
> *Continue reading..*
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> with Broadcast Bionics, Trevor Dann finds out RadioDays Europe 2015. Will
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> thousand delegates?
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> Can it replace the Radio Festival for UK delegates? Who will be the star
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> One year ago, on 19th January 2014, KIIS 1065 launched in Sydney. A blog
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>
> In its very first ratings survey the new radio station sky-rocketed to
> become the Number One FM commercial radio station in Sydney with the Number
> One FM Morning Show.
>
> It was a spectacular launch that attracted the attention of the radio
> world. The previous commercial radio market-leader, 2DAY FM, collapsed.
>
> 12 months on and the Morning Shows of KIIS FM and stable-mate WSFM
> continue to battle for first and second place on FM and 2DAY FM continues
> to struggle.
>
> Duncan Campbell is the National Content Director of ARN (The Australian
> Radio Network). He was the mastermind and driving force behind the launch
> of KIIS 1065 with the Kyle & Jackie O Morning Show.
>
> In this exclusive half-hour interview with Francis Currie, recorded six
> months after the launch and available publicly for the first time, Duncan
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> dramatic success.
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> Steve Collins at Jazz FM London! Recorded Jun 26th 1992
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> Pete Wagstaff at Chiltern Radio Dunstable! Recorded Nov 22nd 1982
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>
> *IRN Awards* - nominations announced - today at 11:15 am (Online)
>
> *RAJAR Q4, 2014* delivered to radio stations - February 4, 2015 at 10:30
> am (Online)
>
> *Drive to Digital: NOW* - February 6, 2015 at 9:00 am (London)
>
> *Salon de la Radio* - February 8, 2015 at 9:00 am (Paris, France)
>
> *EBU Digital Radio Summit* - February 11, 2015 at 9:00 am (Geneva,
> Switzerland)
>
> *RadioHack 2015* - February 12, 2015 at 2:00 pm (Geneva, Switzerland)
>
> *Beds and Beats re-launch party* - February 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm (London)
>
> *Radiodays Europe* - March 15, 2015 at 7:30 pm (Congressi, Milano)
>
> *IRN Awards* - March 19, 2015 at 3:00 pm (London)
>
> *Arqiva Awards - Entries close* - March 20, 2015 at 5:00 pm (Online)
> Anniversaries and birthdays this week:
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> *Heart North Wales*'s Oli Kemp on January 28 (presenter)
>
> Rick Houghton on January 28 (presenter)
>
> *City Talk 105.9* on January 28
>
> *UTV*'s Terry Underhill on January 30 (group programme director)
>
> *Heart North East*'s Tom Campbell on January 31 (presenter)
>
> *The Breeze* on January 31
>
> *BBC Radio Nottingham* on January 31
>
> *Smooth North West*'s Crissy Cohen on February 1
>
> *Brett Orchard* on February 1
>
> *Premier Gospel* on February 1
>
> *Subcity Radio* on February 1
>
> *Mountain FM* on February 1
>
> *Mansfield 103.2* on February 1
>
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