Category Archives: What others are saying

Team One – by Mark Bingham

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 [...]

Childhood Dreams – by Christian O’Connell

As we get older we tend to dream less and less. I was forever being told off at school for either talking too much or daydreaming. Now I am paid to do both. So f**k you Mr Barnes the chemistry teacher!
Anyway. Mr Parigi last week spoke of the intellectual fatigue in commercial radio, I think [...]

Listening by Clive Dickens

Here is an interesting tool that analyses Websites and Blogs and automatically aggregates Word Count and creates a graphic image to boot
It was sent to me by Matt Deegan at Folder Media. Clever chap.
He ran the tool on our very own blog One Golden Square, with interesting results:

The Golden Goose – Radio and the Music Industry

I don’t think many would question the value of Radio Airplay when trying to sell music and influence consumers about new artists. In fact I think some of the more cynical people may wrongly believe that the Radio Industry is paid to pay certain songs at certain times again and again. Of course the opposite [...]

Team Golden Square only station to be nominated three times

The team at Golden Square should very proud this morning as they are the only radio station to achieve three Arqiva nominations.

V Festival for Programme or Feature of the year
Virgin Radio News team for News award
Virgin Sales team for National Sales team of the year.

We at TIML believe awards can genuinely help bring a positive [...]