Hello One Golden Square,
It seems weeks ago since we all celebrated our win at this years Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, picking up gold for our fantastic Virgin Mobile V Festival coverage.
What makes it even more special is that this award isn’t for just one specific person or presenter, this is completely a team effort. Every [...]

What with the annual leave I had booked for August, Friday was my last day in the office as a member of staff.
I imagine everyone here is sick & tired of being told how wonderful they are, but I’d like to add my voice to that chorus and thank you all for your part in [...]

One of the many things that we’ve been doing in the first 30 days as the new owners of One Golden Square, has been for Nick Hewat and I to meet as many commercial clients and agencies as we can in order to introduce ourselves and give them some background about who we are.
I have [...]

At 5.30pm last night, radio stations across the country were feverish with anticipation as they awaited their RAJAR audience results.
RAJAR is the industry system for measuring radio listening in the UK, and it provides us with results on a quarterly basis. 135,000 paper diaries are handed out each year for a random sample of respondents [...]

Our web site is brilliant and commercial radio’s most popular with 15-44 year olds. Indeed, the new owners have cited it (along with other progressive activities in digital) as one of the reasons for acquiring Virgin Radio.
And its the busiest time of the year for us as we roll out the ’80s Mega Quiz, our [...]

So, the Olympics is just about doped-up dudes like Dwayne Chambers flexing their guns in front of a world audience in order to secure more cereal commercials to fuel their creatine craving? It’s therefore not worth covering, right?
Well, maybe at its most cynical, at its lowest moments, that’s what the gaudy athletic amphitheatre has become. [...]

So.  The ever-helpful runners descended today with puzzled looks on their faces, clutching a white trolley.  Their mission - to clear the way for a desk for Clive on the first floor -  the home of those who make the programming. Clive is their new boss - and he wants to be close to them.  [...]

Do you remember the year the Craig David got loads of Brit nominations but actually failed to win ANY awards at all. I do, and I know how the little bearded freak must have felt. For years I have watched the nominations and dreamt of winning. I’ve had an acceptance speech ready since 2001. Never [...]

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 be in the building [...]

We’ve just held an EGM with our shareholders who have approved the disposal of Virgin Radio. We will be sorry to see Virgin Radio leave the SMG family but I do believe that you will have a great future with TIML.
The new owners TIML have told me many times that one of the key reasons [...]

In July 2006 I was fortunate enough to spend some time in Mumbai, speaking about S&P at the first ever India Radio Forum. My companions for this 4-day trip were James Cridland and GCap’s Nick Piggott, both of whom are famously excellent speakers on all things digital… I recall sharing a Mumbai mini-cab with them [...]

Testing out our new ‘interim’ PowerPoint template:

Donnach getting nervous:

What a lovely audience:

A couple of people asked me what was playing on my IPOD yesterday afternoon at Skype.
In fact it was my ‘Today’ playlist, some of my faves of the moment.

(Click on the image to see the detail)
Looking at it again it makes me realize how eclectic and varied my taste has become over the years.
A bit [...]

Here’s the presentation we talked through last night at Skype’s HQ. Thanks for a great turnout, and some useful discussions afterwards.

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