Category: Media

Politically, I hate Ken Livingstone. When the lovely Boris ousted him from control of London, I was a happy man. Be gone, creep, I thought. Then

I’ve been listening online to this station for a little while now ( http://www.kcrfm.co.uk ), after finding out it’s no longer called The Rocket – D’oh! –

It seems that the idea of inviting a bunch of folk into your home in order to maintain a version of Radio Caroline was not necessarily a

Despite my moaning about aspects of them, look at this written by the Brand Director of Absolute Radio.  Look mum, I’m famous! http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/09/absolute-beginners-no-longer-by-chris-lawson/ On that

This new Absolute Radio, right. It promises you ain’t gonna hear the same thing between 10am and 5pm, all part of the ‘no repeat workday’, right.

Is it me or is the all new Absolute Radio (“used to be known as Virgin Radio”) going the way of Jack FM? Jack FM in Oxford (owned by Absolute) boringly has

‘Absolute Radio’, that was the name they settled on after months of debate about what should succeed ‘Virgin Radio’.  They looked at their letterheads or

I dipped in to about 20 minutes of ‘Virgin-Radio-soon-to-be-known-as-Absolute-Radio’ and to my amazement found that, apart from the obligatory and annoying constant bigging-up of the

I don’t watch much TV overall, although there’s some pretty hot and interesting stuff on Channel 4 now and again, but I did watch Britain’s

Ok, so there’s this ‘showbiz’ show on the talking station LBC in London, presented by ‘Cristo’ in the weekend early evenings. Despite his constant menuing

I don’t suppose anybody here is still following the Man in the Morning’s blog http://breakfastdj.blogspot.com/ are they? Now, this surely must be building up to

I’m old school. Today, radio is in the hands of a new generation, although my generation reject and hate them. It appears to be the

Nearly 2 in the morning here in Liverpool (the capital of culture), and I’ve just spent 10 minutes scanning through an FM radio. I’m shocked

It would be interesting to get to the bottom of what’s actually going on with all this Isle of Man malarkey. It’s very difficult to

Well, it launched with George Benson’s “Never Give Up on a Good Thing”.Sigh. Stop me if I’ve not heard this format before a million times:

Ok, so I keep funny hours. I don’t do the drink and drugs thing, it’s just that my lifestyle means my hours are different to

You know how you get bored and so start flicking. I don’t mean flicking bogies. Flicking around the TV channels. I had a flicking session

Around and about radio enthusiast sites and mass debating pits I notice there continues this horror and fear of mono. Why are (radio anorak type)

I never really liked Chris Evans on the radio other than when he was first on GLR. I thought he was good on the Big

I’ve mentioned before my obsession with radio. That’s how radio programmes work and so on.

Someone somewhere (probably in America) started a really really stupid trend. Now they are all copying it. Have you noticed it? It is very very

So, here we are in a Britain with kids wandering aimlessly around in packs. These bored, restless and feral latchkey kids are going out and