Category Archives: Guest posts

Music on repeat on repeat on repeat – by Llia Apostolou

If I’ve learned anything during my (short) time in radio, it’s that listeners love to feel part of the station – for example, hearing the excitement in someone’s voice when doing a phone-in. I recently saw a post on a (private) forum where someone was hugely overjoyed to hear their name mentioned on-air by Geoff [...]

Who are Joyce and Kate? – It really is a small world after all. By Joyce Lorigan

My first day working for Disney was on a plane to Walt Disney World (horrible delta airline flight through Atlanta so please don’t be impressed..). The first person I bumped into at the hotel reception was Clive who was on a Radio OB. I can honestly say that fourteen years ago, he was just as [...]

Why don’t jocks ever get to go to the good trips? by Christian O’Connell

Music research…big thing I always get asked about by listeners and non-listeners, that and what time do I get up and why aren’t I as funny as Chris Moyles! Radio 2 told me about some research they did. Played a very new unknown song, one group heard it with a dj saying how much he [...]

Radio on the iPhone? by Andy Grumbridge

CBS and AOL have this week announced that they will stream their radio services on the iPhone – Andy Grumbridge looks a benefit of this from a UK / Golden Square perspective With Apple opening up the iPhone for 3rd party developers there will be a surge of radio-listening apps for consumers to download – [...]