http://www.mediauk.com/ Radio news feed en-gb This compilation copyright 1994-2009 Media UK; individual stories with contributors Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:43:04 +0100 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:43:04 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/article/4733 Media UK wizardry admin@mediauk.com (Not At All Bad Ltd) 10 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75557?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:40:06 +0100 Former GCap Media chief executive Fru Hazlitt in the running for top ITV job. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75557 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75555?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:01 +0100 What with Katherine Jenkins' warbling, David Lloyd's twittering and the Aussies' chirruping, all the Ashes needs now is Dickie Bird. Before the First Test (Sky Sports 1), the Welsh singer had set the tone for a long, hard summer of suffering by belting out the anthems of every country in the world except Spain, whose anthem has no words. But you have to wonder how long "Bumble" can keep it up: "18 minutes ago: Australia 610 for 5. I've stolen one of Sir Ian's pork pies." "Nine minutes ago: Australia 730 for 5. Sir Ian has discovered one of his pies is missing." "Three minutes ago: Australia 1,236 for 5. Sir Ian has me pinned to the sightscreen. He reckons I'm telling pork pies about his pork pies." http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75555 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75548?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:06:33 +0100 Jim Bowen is returning to BBC Radio Lancashire, the station he resigned from in 2002. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75548 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75542?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:24:16 +0100 JACK fm and FM107.9 have launched their own player on the iPhone and iPod Touch platform. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75542 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75518?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:54:00 +0100 Venezuela is taking dozens of radio stations off the air and putting stricter rules on cable and satellite television, a minister said yesterday, as part of President Hugo Chávez’s battle with private media firms. Disodado Cabello, the public works minister who also oversees Venezuela’s broadcasting watchdog, said 154 FM radio stations will be taken off the air [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75518 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75505?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:44:12 +0100 Yorkshire Radio and Minster FM are to renew their partnership to air Leeds United’s games. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75505 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75496?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:14:58 +0100 BBC Norwich has become the latest BBC building to open its doors to the public. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75496 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75504?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:51:51 +0100 Corporation made mistake by failing to launch digital radio station aimed at children, according to its chief operating officerThe BBC made a mistake by failing to launch a radio station aimed at children when it unveiled its lineup of digital services, according to its chief operating officer, Caroline Thomson.Since its push into digital radio seven years ago, the BBC has struggled to find a home for children's programming. Earlier this year, the children's magazine show Go4It was axed from Radio 4. Although the broadcaster still has some children's output on BBC 7, ditching the show ended a 50-year tradition of children's programming on analogue radio."We tried with children's radio. But it did not work as a sort of patch on Radio 4 with one programme," Thomson told the Westminster e-Forum in London earlier this week."I used to listen to Go4It quite a lot as it followed The Archers on a Sunday evening and you just thought 'what children are listening to the radio after The Archers?' and they weren't. That did not work."You could argue that we should have launched a children's channel as part of our DAB [offering]... I think that would be a legitimate thing to argue. As it is, we did a partial service and that has not quite worked."She added that the broadcaster is exploring other options for children's programming on radio.Much of the debate at the meeting – which was a follow-up to the publication of Lord Carter's Digital Britain report last month – surrounded the communications minister's plans to take cash from the TV licence fee and use it to support the roll-out of a 2Mb per second broadband service for everyone in the UK by 2012.After that date, Lord Carter hopes to be able to use the so-called "digital switchover" licence fee cash to support regional news programming and perhaps even children's programming from rival providers. He wants the switchover cash put into a "contained contestable fund", which any potential programme provider can bid to use.The cash is currently being used by the BBC to help the most vulnerable consumers through the move from analogue to digital television, due to be completed in 2012. But the government's own spending watchdog the National Audit Office reckons more cash has been set aside than will be needed.Thomson said the BBC thinks the so-called switchover surplus will be £200m to £300m but stressed that with only 1.5% of homes having gone through switchover so far, there can be no apportioning of a potential surplus until "well into next year" at the earliest.But she also added her voice to the howls of objection that have already been heard from the BBC, about the idea of taking some of the licence fee and giving it to other programme makers.Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, has already attacked the plan as the equivalent of turning the licence fee into a "slush fund", while director general Mark Thompson believes the plan is part of a plot to undermine the corporation's funding."The concept of a contained contestable fund is a bit of an oxymoron," said Thomson. "If there is one thing we have learned at the BBC over the course of this whole debate on the future of public service broadcasting starting with Ofcom's second PSB (public service broadcasting) review, it is that claims to the licence fee are unlikely to be contained. The list of potential claimants seems to grow longer by the day or indeed change."She added that the idea that the fund will be "contained" – in other words remain at a set level – is also unrealistic as the experience in other countries such as New Zealand, where the licence fee was eventually abolished, shows that "containment at some fixed percentage works only until someone thinks of a higher number".Thomson said: "If further funds are called for, and obviously the state of the newspaper industry and of the other media players means that at the moment the problem does look quite severe, can they really not be found in other ways than breaking the direct link between the BBC and licence fee payers?"The chair of the event, media commentator and MediaGuardian columnist Steve Hewlett, pointed out that supporting plurality in the supply of news is one of the BBC's public purposes, so why was it so bad for a very small amount of the licence fee to be used for that purpose."Plurality of regional news is really important," Thomson responded. "(But) I think the sadness about the Digital Britain report is that it has rather ducked the longer term structural issues about trying to get a really viable industry working alongside the BBC."Other commentators have pointed out that accepting the switchover cash in the first place has already broken the direct link between the licence fee and BBC programming and services – as it was never intended to be used for the corporation's output."I think doing the targeted help scheme is a totally different principle from having the licence fee funding a range of content from other providers," Thomson responded.• To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000.• If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".BBCRadioChildren's TVChildrenguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75504 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75491?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:25:18 +0100 As previewed at The Radio Festival in Nottingham last week, Absolute Radio has launched its Live Amp application. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75491 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75479?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:41 +0100 A music producer at BBC Scotland is diversifying: to provide visitors to Edinburgh a personalised audio tour of the capital’s key attractions. Richard Melvin produces Jim Gellatly’s Music Bed on BBC Radio Scotland every week and wrote and released the two novelty hit... http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75479 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75486?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:05:05 +0100 "Be part of it with your Radio Wales," the jingles urge. Some cricket, you may have noticed, has come to Cardiff, and the station is making the most of it. Yesterday, Good Morning Wales, presented by the likable duo of Rhun ap Iorwerth and Sarah Dickins, used cheery cricket coverage to punctuate harder stories. The travel, weather and sports news, too, chimed in with their own jaunty references to the Ashes contest down the road.There was relief all round that things had gone well. "Not everyone was on our side," the Chairman of Glamorgan Cricket Club told Iorwerth. "But we deserve this; it was not an aberration." He had instructed his staff, he added, to cosset visitors: "I told them to treat every request as if it was the most important thing they'd ever been asked."The only critical notes concerned the ground itself. "This is not a pretty ground," said Jonathan Agnew, "it never will be." Mike Gatting, having praised the event, was less keen on the playing surface. "The pitch is a typical Cardiff pitch," he observed, "Slow, a bit on the low side, and it's turned a bit already." Ordinarily, these might be taken as slights; but yesterday, in the grip of Ashes fever, everyone was just pleased it hadn't rained.RadioRadioguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75486 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75434?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Thu, 9 Jul 2009 18:00:15 +0100 Stage Screen and Radio, the members' journal has been recognised in the TUC's 2009 Trade Union Communications Awards. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75434 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75439?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:45:49 +0100 Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja, who wants to stay in power after his mandate expires, has strengthened the hand of the body that watches over the media, state radio reported today. “When a media outlet publishes an article or broadcasts information that endangers state security or public order, the president of the High Council of Communication [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75439 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75396?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:50:25 +0100 —ITN/Mail: Yet another online video contract for ITN’s prolific On multimedia division - it’s supplying showbiz, lifestyle, general and business news videos to Mail Online. Via Guardian.co.uk. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75396 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/75404?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:45:16 +0100 Online broadcasters welcomed news this week that a new royalty deal had been struck. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75404