Comments on: Listen are you gonna listen? by Glyn Britton from Albion

By: guitar bodies

guitar bodies — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:10:36 +0000

hello! Can I ask what theme are you using in your blog? thanks!

By: Jonny Cockles

Jonny Cockles — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:47:10 +0000

Is that Tom Whatsisface formerly of CanWest in the 2nd photo? Ye Gods!

By: David Wilding

David Wilding — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:21:52 +0000

Just wanted to wish you the best of luck with this project. In many ways a dream brief and one I’m sure you’ll have a lot of fun cracking.

By: Niko

Niko — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:12:47 +0000

And, just to mention it, perhaps not just a wider playlist but a quicker refresh of the playlist? Some songs back there are so old, or at least have been played to death already, so regardless of whether it’s good, it just isn’t the one you’re expecting to hear.

Again, did this make sense? It’s weird typing this at night…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:48:21 +0000

In response to The Thinkers comment. What ads would you like to see on the site? We are always looking for new ways to integrate relevant brands on to the site so any ideas will be gratefully received!!

By: Ashley Brown

Ashley Brown — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:05:04 +0000

Single most entertaining feature on Virgin Radio – Geoff’s podcast party with Jonathan Coulton. And it all started when Geoff went off-playlist and played one of his songs. Yes, the playlist needs expanding (the music seems to have had more variety in the past week or so – co-incidence?) but going off-playlist is also a good thing.

More please.

By: Marty from new yawk

Marty from new yawk — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:20:10 +0000

As a listener, these are my concerns:

1. Leave the presenters alone. I don’t want to see anyone get sacked. For that matter, leave all the personnel alone. If you must sack someone, do it now and don’t give people false hopes. You might find this hard to believe, but I’ve been sacked a few times myself.

2. As someone who listens considerably more than the average listener (and possibly VR employee), the play list must be expanded. If it is not expanded, let the presenters play tracks that interest them. I can’t tell you how much it means to me when a presenter plays something different. As an aside, that Noah & the Whale song is really pissing me off.

3. Why can’t a list of presenter birthdates be published on the website? You can leave out the year of birth as I think there is one that might have a year with a suffix BCE. Howabout a presenter lookalike contest of some sort, perhaps for Halloween? In this way, the presenters can connect more with the listeners.

4. Take one day in the programme schedule, put the names of the presenters for a 24 hour period in a hat. Pull out names at random and reassign them starting with breakfast. Mix it up.

5. Sort out the MW location on the dial. Yes, it’s 1215. Down the road it’s 1245. Somewhere else it’s 1265. This is a huge problem. You need one place on the dial. If you can’t readily fix it, then have people bring their radios to Virgin Radio in exchange for DABs generously provided by a sponsor. Then donate those radios to a charity.

6. The Apple iphone is sold worldwide. How can you show the Apple people that there are people outside the UK listening? They s/pay a higher rate for a worldwide audience.

7. I don’t care what u call the station. Nobody listens to a station because of it’s name. In the States there is Jack FM. How many thousands of dollars was spent for that? Maybe call it CAD radio (Clive, Adrian, Donnach, computer assisted design, cad- “triple entendre”). Spend your money on other things.

Bottom line, more thinking outside the box is necessary. More pushing of the envelope is required. Take the shackles off the presenters. Who knows, perhaps the UK equivalent of Howard Stern will emerge?

By: The thinker

The thinker — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:10:32 +0000

I’m interested – so far not of your commercial people have posted on this blog.

Clearly for the purchase to make sense they need to be on board. The audience and programmers seem keen – but what are the sales people saying?

Maybe they can give us better ads?