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Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer champions commercial radio on its 50th anniversary in a special article for RadioToday. “When LBC’s original breakfast presenter, David Jessel, took to the air at 5am on Monday 8 October 1973 at a studio on Gough Square off Fleet Street in London, he could never have foreseen the success that commercial […] […]

David Burns, who left BBC Radio Humberside due to the BBC changes, is joining Hull and East Yorkshire’s 107FM. […]

North Derbyshire Radio is one of the new services joining the High Peak small-scale DAB multiplex. […]

Fife’s KingdomFM celebrated its 25th anniversary this week by delivering hundreds of doughnuts to workplaces across its region. […]

Late Show presenters on BBC local radio stations in England have said goodbye to listeners ahead of a networked show starting on Monday. Late Night Becky, with Becky Want, will air across the local network each weekday replacing regional output as previously revealed by RadioToday. Weekends will be hosted by Jo Good. In the north […] […]

Ofcom has announced which areas will be advertised in the next round of small-scale DAB licensing. There are 27 locations on the list, ranging from the Isle of Wight to Carlisle, and Lanarkshire to Carrickfergus. Round Six will be advertised next year. The areas are: Ayr, Troon and Irvine Barrow-in-Furness Bournemouth and Boscombe Bridgend Carlisle […] […]