Issue no. 11, dated 22 January 1993, of 'Radio News' weekly newsletter for the UK radio broadcasting industry, written and published by Grant Goddard in January 1993.

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'1'HE WEEKLY UPDATE ON THE UK RADIO INDUSTRY
R.ADIO TALKSHOPS
London is to be overwhelmed by radio
conferences in the coming months, all
timed to coincide with the continuing
debate about the BBC's future and the
re-advertisement of commercial radio
licences.
The Radio Academy organises a series
of three debates under the title
Focus On Radio to discuss specific
aspects of the industry. The first,
to be held on the evening of 16 Feb
at the RSA in London, examines the
renewal of tbe BBC Charter and
speakers include John Whitney (Trans
World Communications), Tim Blackmore
(Unique), Gillian Reynolds
(Telegraph) and Ha senior government
Minister". Admission costs £11.75.
The other debates in the series will
be held at London's BT Conference
Centre and focus on speech radio (18
Mar) and music radio (20 Apr).
The Academy also stages a one-off
conference entitled Licence To Fill
on 10 Feb at The Roof Gardens in
Kensington, tackling the issues
surrounding re-advertisement of Radio
Authority licences. Ex-Midlands Radio
MD Ron Coles is Conference Chairman,
and there are individual sessions on
application procedures (with The
Radio Authority's David Vick) , the
business plan (David Murrell of KPMG
Peat Marwick), audience research
(Rachel Steel of QuestionAir),
programming (The Radio Authority's
Paul Brown) and engineering (Quentin
Howard of Classic FM). Registration
costs £76.38 (members) or £88.13
(non-members) .
In other activities, the Academy
holds a dinner at the BBC's
Broadcasting House the evening of 15
Feb in the company of John Drummond,
with an introduction by Radio 5
presenter David MelIor. Tickets cost
£35.25/£47. And the 9th Music Radio
Conference, entitled The Common
Ground, takes place 3 Mar at The
Brewery in London, with keynote
speaker Maurice Oherstein (Polygram)
and addresses by Virgin Radio's new
Chief Executive David Campbell and
Joint PD Richard Skinner, costing
£116.32. Advance bookings for all
these events from The Radio Academy
on 071-323-3837.
The Voice Of The Listener &Viewer
[VLV] continues its series of What
Future For...•.••..? debates with the
focus on religious broadcasting in a
one-day conference on 27 Jan at
London's Abbey Centre chaired by
radio critic Russell Twisk. Regional
broadcasting is discussed in an
evening debate on 10 Feb at the House
Of Commons with speakers Ron Neil
(BBC Regional) and Melvyn Bragg
(Border TV). Education programmes are
the subject of a one-day seminar on
17 Feb at the Abbey Centre; live
music is the topic at an evening
Commons debate on 3 Mar; farming and
rural programmes are considered at an
afternoon seminar on 10 Mar at the
Abbey Centre; and there is a weekend
conference 2/3/4 Apr on public
service broadcasting entitled "A
Global Inquiry For Listeners &
Viewers" . More details and ticket
information from VLV on 0474-352835.
BUZZ NEEDS JOCKZ
Buzz FM/Birmingham, recently
purchased by Cary-Wood plc, is having
difficulty finding two new presenters
of sufficiently high standard.
''We I ve taken over and we're rocking,"
enthuses Chris Cary, the station's
combined MD/PD. "We've had hundreds
of tapes but trying to find two
voices is hard. I can't believe t hat
these people have actually got jobs
on other stations. They just sound
terrible. The tapes I'm getting are
worse than the people who left."
Cary asks prospective DJs to send
tapes and CVs to him at Buzz FM, The
Spencers, 20 Augusta Street,
Birmingham B18 6JA.
"The station's not big enough to have
five hundred different titles," Cary
says of his dual management role. "If
you have a Programme Director and a
Managing Director, the MD knows what
he wants. It's his business and he's
got to make it pay, so he's forever
overriding the PD because they don't
think the same way, to the point
where you're just paying out thirty
grand a year for nothing. So I'm not
going to do that."
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2. WATERMAN JOINS lFM DEBATE
Participating in a lively debate
about the future of the BBC, producer
Pete Waterman argued that Radio 1
should he left as it is since it is
already "very very different" from
CO!lIIlercial radio. "People think that
they play the same [records] ,11
Waterman told the audience at
London's Queen Elizabeth 11
Conference Centre. IIThey don't.
Without Radio 1, British talent
wouldn't get the space that it
deserves."
Radio 1 Controller Johnny Beerling
argued that the network was not a Top
40 station as some people perceived.
"Less than 25% of the station's
output is top 40," he said and went
on to argue the case for broadening
the station's output. "People who are
interested in popular music are
interested in fashion, the
environment and in film. We see that
epitomised in Steve Wright's
programme in the afternoon which is
hugely popular but has elements of
speech within it which appeal to that
audience."
Radio 1 DJ John Peel said his
children rarely listened to the radio
because they thought it already
broadcast too much talk. "On radio,
as on television, you always have to
run the risk of delighting and
surprising people," argued Peel. "The
option always seems to be to play
safe, take the easy way out, to do
things like the various gold radio
stations you hear which are
enormously popular. But you reach the
point at which you're no longer
creating new music to go out on those
gold stations. One of the things
Radio 1 has always done, which we're
supremely good at ...•is that we
always give access to new bands.
We've always given them radio time
and persisted with them.1I
From the commercial sector, Radio
Clyde MD James Gardon commented:
"Certain sections of the BBC have a
slight guilt complex about Radio 1
and feel that they must change it to
something that the commercial sector
couldn't do. The fact is that the
commercial sector could do Radio I,
and it could also do any variant on
Radio 1 that the BBC come up with."
The two-hour debate, chaired by
Micaael Buerk, was broadcast live on
Radio 4 as an independent commission
from Crux Productions.
FESTIVAL WINS AWARD
Restricted service licensee Festival
Radio/Brighton has won an award under
the Business Sponsorship Incentive
Scheme. Administered by the
Association for Business Sponsorship
Of The Arts, the scheme acts as an
incentive for businesses to sponsor
arts initiatives. Broadcasting during
NEW
The Radio Authority has advertised
the third of its five regional
licences, reaching 1.9 million adults
in Northeast England. Two FM
Brighton's annual International Arts
Festival, the station's morning arts
features were sponsored by Gasoline
Authentic Sportswear.
Accepting the award from Heritage
Secretary Peter Brooke, Festival
Radio Director Eugene Perera said "We
welcome the recognition this high
profile award brings and hope that it
will encourage more businesses to
sponsor arts radio in the future."
The station makes its annual return
to Brighton's airwaves in May.
REGIONAL LICENCE
transmitters will cover Tyne &Wear,
Teesside, Durham, Cleveland and parts
of south Northumberland and North
Yorkshire. Applications costing £1475
will close on 4 May, with an award
made within three months, though the
service cannot commence before
September 1994.
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3. TV-am's building in trendy Camden
resembles a ghost factory whose
inhabitants left in a hurry. The
famous pink sofa that launched a
thousand bleary-eyed mornings in
households across the country has
gone from the studio, soon destined
to be a historical exhibit in the
South Bank's Museum Of The Moving
Image. In the entrance lobby, a
circular reception desk now stands
alone and forlorn, covered with a
myriad of phones that never ring.
Around it, huge blow-up photos of the
station's larger-than-life presenters
stare down from the walls at empty
seats that wait for visitors who no
longer come. The only remaining signs
of life are a couple of security men
and a removal crew carrying out some
boxes.
Inside the heart of the building,
rows and rows of desks and computers,
silent and empty, are visible in the
unlit gloom. A huge, widescreen
television lies silent, staring
blankly at a hospitality suite where
the fridge no longer needs to be
refilled. From the staff noticeboard
hang memos about pension schemes and
Xmas parties for the eyes of staff
who left a fortnight ago when the
station finally handed over its
licence to GMTV. It's eerie to see a
TV station that always prided itself
on bright and cheery mornings now
gaping empty, unwanted and unloved,
gasping its last breathes in solitary
defeat.
Upstairs, in a small suite of
offices, are a few people packing
files, photos, letters and cassettes
into crates and boxes. It's Friday
afternoon and this is the corner of
the building that for the last few
months has been home to Virgin Radio.
But here too will be empty by Monday.
The UK's first national commercial
popular music station, launching 30
April, is moving shop to 1 Golden
Square in the heart of London's West
End over the weekend. In the midst of
all the removal preparations, the
station's Joint Programme Directors,
Richard Skinner and John Revell, are
remarkably relaxed and chatty about
their plans. They started work only
two weeks ago, appointed after a
VIRGIN RADIO
sudden management re-shuffle that
purged former Programme Controller
Andrew Marshall's plans to turn
Virgin Radio into a cross between
Radio One and an oldies station.
Skinner and Revell are employed to
bring to the station's programming
the distinctiveness that Virgin lends
to most of its business ventures.
WORKING AS JOINT PROGRAMME DIRECTORS
IS A NOVEL IDEA. HOW DOES IT WORK IN
PRACTICE?
Richard: We come from different
directions and meet in the middle.
I'm in the vaguely traditional role
of the bloke who is in charge of
formulating the playlist and the
music [data] base, and in charge of
the DJs. That's where I start out
from, and then John starts out of
promotions and image..... .
John: .......and also creating and
formulating programming ideas and
various strands through the
programming. We do cross over but the
roles will become more defined as
time progresses. It will be Richard
and me who decide on the playlist
each week, and it will be Richard and
me who decide on the presenters.
He's more image andRichard:
promotions.
wingeing at
gone wrong, I
And I'll have DJs
me because something's
suspect.
WHAT WILL BE VIRGIN RADIO'S MUSIC
POLICY?
Richard: We are not jest a rock
station, because that would imply
that it's AC/DC and Ben Jovi all day.
It's going to be album music, quality
album music, distinct album music
from about 1967 onwards. But it is
not a gold station. We're going to
have a weekly playlist that will
feature new tracks by established
stars. It will also feature tracks by
new artists and bands who sit
comfortably alongside, and who are
the natural successors to, the major
acts of the 70s and 80s. The only
thing we can say about not playing
things is that we will not play hard
rap music, urban dance music, the dub
end of reggae, commercial pop or
gilllllick songs. That leaves an
enormously large area of music still
available to play. We're not ruling
out any individual artists.
John: The industry were slightly
concerned that it was going to be an
MOR/AOR station - Steely Dan all day
or Dire Straits back-to-back - but
it's not. Though there will be a
degree of that and a lot of those
bands will form the core of the music
policy, there will be an edge as
you'd expect from Virgin.
Richard: It's not going to be
entirely predictable. If we said
there were five genres of music, for
example, all five would be
represented at all times within the
24-hour cycle, but the percentages of
each individual genre will vary. If,
at a certain part of the daytime, we
know there's an audience that prefers
it slightly softer, there will be a
softer mix but you will still hear
Nirvana. If there's another part of
the day where the research shows that
there's predominantly an audience who
want good aggressive contemporary
music, they'll get it but they will
also get an Eagles song. It's just
the percentages that will change
throughout the day. We're not a radio
station of individual shows. It's an
ebb and flow.
John: We look at each individual song
on its individual merit, and we say
this song is very very good and we
put it on [the playlist].
Richard: We're not going to be
singles led. One definite thing is
that we are going to be album led.
Obviously if a major star or a
newcomer puts out a first single and
there is no other material available,
we go with the single. But once the
album's there, I don't care what the
company puts out as a single. We're
going to play what we want to play
off the album. In the time they are
on our playlist, the album cuts will
be rotated as other stations rotate
singles.
SO THE PLAYLISTS OPERATE 24 HOuRS A
DAY, AND THERE ARE NO SPECIALIST
PROGRAMMES OF ANY SORT?
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4. John: You have to do that to identify
your station, so that when people dip
in they know they are listening to
our station and know exactly what
they are listening to. And you have
to do that to get your station
identity. That's very important.
Richard: The thing I'm concerned
about is that I want Virgin Radio to
have an edge. Equally, I'm aware that
a lot of people are scared of really
unfamiliar music. So we've got to
have that degree of familiarity, to
say "there there, its okay. Bear with
us for this one new song that you
might like anyway, because you know
in a minute there's going to be
something on that you will know and
like." It's that fine balance.
AND H~ WILL THE PLAYLIST SYSTEM
WORK?
Richard: There'll be, say, twenty
songs on the playlist, plus we've got
our core of established material,
recent recurrents and classic album
tracks. We're going to be using a
Selector computer, but that's only as
good as what you put in it. It's my
job to sit down there and put in a
core of music that is right. I want
the presenters to sit there with me
and say ''We've really got to have
Kashmir by Led Zeppelin on that
Selector." If we get the right [data]
base, the computer will simply throw
up the programming. And inside that
programming each individual presenter
will have a degree of input. I don't
want somebody coming in without
reference to me and slamming a CD on
the air because it could be very
wrong for what we want. I intend to
be very open-minded, and if a
presenter is dedicated to something
and can convince me that it's right,
then it's on.
AND WHAT WILL YOUR PREStR'l'ERs SOUND
LIKE?
John: We felt we needed a couple of
names to launch the station who have
a large degree of musical
credibility, but we can't reveal
those at the moment. But the main
criterion with all the presenters is
their dedication and their passion
for the music that they're playing.
The reason they're here is not
because they're personality-led.
Richard: They're not announcers.
We're not employiag good voices.
John: They're passionate about the
music. They still go and buy records,
go to gigs, read the magazines.
Richard: I have this dream that we
come into the radio station and,
within the communal area near the
studios, there are DJs sitting around
talking about records. I've never met
that at any radio station I've ever
been to, but [here] we're talking to
people who are committed to music.
John: I think that's B>re realistic
on this station because we are so
targeted with our music. So they
[DJs] will be saying "Hey look,
here's a great new record, have a
listen to this." And I know we can do
that. It will be very different from
any other radio station for the
presenters to work here.
Richard: We're looking at presenters
not all of whom are major established
names. We're talking to people who
are 21 or 22 years old who seem to
have the right attitude.
John: We do think it's important to
bring some new blood through..... .
Richard: And they can work with some
. established people who can teach them
an awful lot about radio.
WILL TIIERE BE MUCH CHAT?
Richard: This is a music station
first and foremost and we could,
within the terms of our remit, just
play back-ta-back records without
anything else all day and all night.
And, as we can, we will play an awful
lot of music, a hell of a lot of
music. It will be 90% music, with
three- or four-hour DJ shifts.
WHAT WILL liE TIlE STATION'S SLOGAN?
Richard: The key slogan is "Much More
Music". It's not the newest thing in
the world. They said it in 1966 on
KHJ/Los Angeles. You will hear more
solid music on this radio station
than anywhere else.
WHEN WIIJ.. TIlE PUBLIC GET TO HEAR TIlE
SOUND OF VIRGIN RADIO?
Richard: We're on the air for at
least six weeks [before 30 Apr
launch) doing test transmissions.
We'll probably use them to experiment
a bit. You may find some days when it
sounds very soft and some days when
it sounds very hard. It will be
interesting to hear what reactions we
get to those.
John: We might formulate a
competition to stimulate audience
input for launch. So during the test
transmissions we will be asking
people to write in.
[VIRGIN RADIO LAUNCHES 30 APRIL ON
1215 AM TO A POTENTIAL NATIONAL
AUDIENCE OF 41 MILLION]
[to be continued•..• ]
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5. John Birt says the BBC's Programme
Strategy Review "will consider (with
their controllers) the ideal
programme mix of each of the radio
channels" and will specifically
examine youth, youth music, music and
arts programming between April and
June this year. Before April, new MD
Network Radio Liz Forgan will make
recOlllllendations "for rationalising
the programme departments within
radio.....in a way which maximizes
the opportunity for bi-media
co-operation and collaboration."
Radio staff numbers reporting to
Forgan could be reduced from 2100 to
1200. Birt says of Forgan's
predecessor David Hatch: "He has been
a splendid, inspirational leader in
radio, and a most effective manager.
He leaves his successor a rich
legacy." ***** Dame Shirley Porter's
son John Porter and businessman
Matthew Cartisser sign a provisional
agreement for their company
Chelverton Investments to take
majority control of LBC/London from
Crown Call1nmications ***** BBC
Radio JIorthampton' s programme Over
The Garden Fence wins the National
Garden Writers' Guild award for best
gardening programme. BBC Radio
Cambridge wins best gardening
phone-in ***** Swinton Insurance is
sponsoring four daily traffic
bulletins on Atlantic 252 in a
one-year £~ deal. There is also a
one-month co-promotion with The Daily
& Sunday Express of their
Millionaires' Club. The station has
joined the Radio Advertising Bureau
***** A deal between BBC World
Service and Radio Nepal brings the
former's Urdu and Hindi programmes to
Nepal and North India on medium wave
***** Classic FM was sbortlisted,
but failed to win, Campaign
magazine's Medium Of The Year *****
Crown Caamunications retains 20% of
French network &FM in its proposed
sale to a consortium led by magazine
publisher Alain Ayache and including
HRJ ***** Spectrum RadiO/London's
Gay London show is upped from two to
five nights a week 1-3am ***** A
Daily Telegraph survey asked readers
whiCH BBC service should be axed. 15%
~R.ADIc) WAVES
said Radio 5, 13% Radio 4, 11%
Radio 3, 10% Radio 1, 9% Radio
2, 5% BBC local radio, and 36%
didn't know ***** New Advertising
Association figures show radio ad
expenditure in 1992 up 8%
year-on-year ***** Virgin Radio
estimated to be spending £l.Srn on a
launch campaign through Bartle BogIe
Hegarty. Head of Marketing Mike
Bernard says: "We won't be launching
and running ourselves like other
radio stations" ***** Bursaries from
the Commonwealth Relations Trust
enabled Bridget Osborne, producer on
BBC Radio magazine shows, to spend
three months in the Caribbean
studying language; and Jim Beaman,
Programme Organiser at BBC Radio
Sussex, to visit rural areas in
northwest India ***** Did BBC
GMR/Manchester really insist on
script amendments to a mid-afternnon
broadcast of the play Shakers,
changing "silly cow" to "silly girl",
"dirty bitch" to "dirty devil", and
"nipples" to ''boobs''? ***** John
MacPherson presents BBC Radio
Sheffield's new gospel show Sunday
9-lOpm ***** Has Southern Radio
really sold Mellow 1557/Tendring to
ex-Mid Anglia Sales Director David
Cocks only months before its licence
is re-advertised? No comment from
both parties ***** Classic FM's
Xmas broadcast of Handel's Messiah
raised £31,500 from listeners towards
homeless charity Crisis ***** Bidding
for a licence? America's NAB
publishes a new book Predicting Radio
Station & Market Revenue by George
Nadel Rivin costing $30 members/$60
non-members (0101-202-775-4972) *****
Island FM/Guernsey appoints Maureen
Street as Traffic Manager ***** Move
this man· to daytime! Choice
FM/Brixton weekend overnight DJ
Jerry Bascombe, replacing unwell
Jenny Francis on weekday evenings
last week, presented one of the best
music shows heard in ages, combining
classic soul and two-step faves with
minimal chat and excellent phone-in
technique ***** Ex-Radio Luxembourg
PO Jeff Grabam takes the same
position at Red Rose/Preston *****
National radio or internal BBC
bulletin board? Does Radio 1
newsreader Rod McKenzie being off
work ill for one day really warrant
Simon Bates talking to him live
on-air at home? And do we care that
Bates' secretary has a new job? *****
Rewind Productions is offering its
studio to IARP members for £25/hour +
VAT, including engineer and assistant
(071-485-4810) ***** Asked about his
radio listening, Big Breakfast TV
presenter Chris Evans replies that
"any station whose title ends in FM
can FO. " Does that include 1FM who
gave Evans a job last year? *****
TV-AM sells its 17% share in Metro
Radio to eight institutional
investors ***** And you thought the
technology was years away? Wey
Valley 102/Alton uses the on-air
slogan "in digital quality FM
stereo". It also has a sickly
American chorus singing "the best
variety in the Wey Valley". Ooly in a
Dallas studio could "variety" rhyme
with "valley", and anyway isn't it
the only station in the Wey Valley?
***** Scottish commercial radio is
rebroadcast in London on 100.5 FM
until 14 Feb as an RSL organised by
Scottish & Irish Radio Sales *****
BBC Radio Scotland needs an
Aberdeen-based Executive Producer
(041-330-2345 x2331) ***** Red
Dragon Radio/Cardiff needs a
COIIIIIercials Copywriter/Producer
(0222-384041) ***** Tim Humphrey is
the BBC Radio Sussex presenter
mentioned last week moving to BBC
Radio Surrey ***** BBC Essex needs
a Chelmsford-based Sports Producer
(0245-262393) ***** BBC World
Service needs a Production Assistant
in its Albanian section (071-240-3456
x2872) ***** WSEW-FM/New York
releases a four-CD compilation The
Classic Rock Box whose 49 tracks
chronicle the history of rock radio
to mark the station's 25th birthday
***** London seems to have more
pirate radio than ever, including
newcomer Buzz ~ programming
excellent swingbeat and rap *****
Inmates at Durham Prison are setting
up a radio station with a £3000 grant
from Northern Arts *****
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6. RADIO DIARY
25/26/27 JAR MIDEM RADIO at Palais Des Festivals, Cannes, France. Info: International Exhibition Organisation, Metropolis
House, 22 Percy Street, London WlP 9FF tel:071-528-0086
27 JAM WHAT FUTURE FOR RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING? debate at Abbey Centre, London SWl 10.30am-4.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
28 JAM RAJAR first audience research figures from joint BBC/ILR system released publicly
9 FEB LEEDS closing date for licence re-applications for AM &FM licences serving 1.23m &770,000 adults respectively,
starting 1 Sep 1994. Info: Radio Authority
9 FEB SOUTHEND/CHELMSFORD closing date for licence re-applications for AM &FM licences serving 1.53m and 770,000 adults
respectively, starting 12 Sep 1994. Info: Radio Authority
10 FEB LICENCE TO FILL conference on applying for Radio Authority licences at The Roof Gardens, 99 Kensington High Street,
London W8 5ED. £76.38 members/£88.I3 non-members. Info: The Radio Academy, PO Box 4SZ, London W1A 4SZ Tel: 071-323-3837
10 FEB WHAT FUTURE FOR REGIONAL BROADCASTING? debate at Committee Room, House of Commons 6-7.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
15 fEB RADIO ACADEMY DINNER in the company of John Drummond with introduction by David MelIor at The Council Chambers,
Broadcasting House, London W1. 6.3Opm. £35.25 members/£47 non-members. lnfo: The Radio Academy, PO Box 4SZ, London W1A
4SZ Tel: 071-323-3837
16 fEB FOCUS ON RADIO (1) debate on BBC Green Paper at RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ. £11.75. Toro: The Radio
Academy, PO Box 4SZ, London WIA 4SZ Tel: 071-323-3837
17 FEB WHAT FUTURE FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES? debate at Abbey Centre, London SW1 10.30am-4.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
2 MAR LUTON/BEDFORD closing date for licence re-applications for AM & FM services serving 1.03m and 0.68m adults
respectively. Info: Radio Authority
2 MAR NORTHAMPTON closing date for licence re-applications for AM & FM services serving 540,000 and 320,000 adults
respectively. Info: Radio Authority
2 MAR AYR closing date for licence re-applications for AM &FM services serving 510,000 and 220,000 adults respectively.
Into: Radio Authority
3 MAR RADIO ACADEMY MUSIC CONFERENCE at The Brewery, London Eel. £116.32. Info: The Radio Academy, PO Box 4SZ, London W1A
4SZ. tel: 071-323-3837
3 MAR WHAT FUTURE FOR LIVE MUSIC? debate at Committee Room, House of Commons 6-7.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &Viewer, 101
Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
9 MAR SCARBOROUGH closing date for new licence serving 65,000 adults on AM or FM. Info: Radio Authority
10 MAR WHAT FUTURE FOR FARMING &RURAL PROGRAMMES? debate at Abbey Centre, London SW1 2-4.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
16 MAR NORTHWEST ENGLAND closing date for new regional FM licence serving 4.3 million adults. Info: Radio Authority
18 MAR FOCUS ON RADIO (2) debate on Speech Radio at BT Conference Centre, Newgate Street, London EC1. Info: The Radio
Academy, PO Box 4SZ, London W1A 4SZ Tel: 071-323-3837
2/3/4 APR WHAT FUTURE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING? - AGLOBAL ENQUIRY FOR LISTENERS &VIEWERS conference in London.
Voice Of The Listener &Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
6 APR COVENTRY closing date for licence re-applications for AM & FM services serving 620,000 and 530,000 adults
respectively. Info: Radio Authority
6 APR DUNDEE/PERTH closing date for licence re-applications for AM &FM services serving 280,000 and 240,000 adults
respectively. Info: Radio Authority
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