Author Archives: TIML Radio HQ

Radio 1 ‘new music’ ad – by Adam Bowie

If you’ve been to the cinema you may have seen this advert for Radio 1′s post 7pm programming. It’s easily the best radio ad I’ve seen in a long time. OK – it’s four minutes long, but I suppose that’s more affordable in the cinema. But the clever opening makes use of the cinema by [...]

Midsummer Milestone: It’s official – only a week to go…

Dear All, Good Morning! Last Friday, SMG shareholders voted to back the sale of Virgin Radio by SMG to TIML Radio.   This means that in a little over a week’s time, from Monday June 30th, we will officially join the team at One Golden Square. So what does this mean? It means that we will [...]

To the bloggers amongst you

We know some of you write blogs – we enjoy reading them. Adam (with his newly increased fame, after a recent namecheck in the Media Guardian) wrote: “The problem is that you have to tread very carefully when blogging about your employer. So I’m not going to say a great deal more, but as ever, [...]

What some other people think

There’s been a fair bit of interest and comment on what we’re up to. Here are some of our favourite articles and blog posts. Feel free to comment on them, either here or there. Jon Plunkett’s ‘Farewell Virgin Radio, hello…. what exactly?‘ The Guardian’s ‘Virgin Radio: Clive Dickens looks to station’s 2001 heyday‘ James Cridland’s [...]

A few photos of last night from Clive’s cameraphone

Testing out our new ‘interim’ PowerPoint template: Donnach getting nervous: What a lovely audience: