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Tesco Mobile to be headline sponsor of Global podcast The Sports Agents

Tesco Mobile has signed up as headline sponsor of Global’s new podcast The Sports Agents with Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman. The podcast, which has had over a million downloads, will amplify Tesco Mobile’s new brand platform, ‘It Pays to be Connected’. Rachel Swift, Chief Customer Officer at Tesco Mobile said: “We’re delighted to launch […] […]

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BBC Radio 2 listeners vote for their favourite ABBA song

BBC Radio 2 listeners have crowned Dancing Queen their favourite ABBA song as the station marks 50 years since the band won the Eurovision Song Contest. Tens of thousands of votes were cast by music fans, which also put The Winner Takes It All at number two, and Thank You For The Music at number […] […]

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Capital announces date for its Summertime Ball for 2024

Capital is returning to Wembley Stadium this June for its Summertime Ball 2024. The event will be held on Sunday 16th June and was announced on Capital’s new breakfast show with Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby this morning. The line-up will be revealed next week during the show on Monday and Tuesday. Jordan, […] […]

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Wave 105’s Selina Ross returns with daily show on DevonAir Radio

Former Wave 105 Presenter Selina Ross is to join DevonAir’s weekday schedule. From Monday, April 29th, listeners can hear Selina each weekday from 2pm to 4pm on the community radio station from Exmouth. Selina was most recently co-host and travel reader on Drive at Wave 105 before it became Greatest Hits Radio last month. She […] […]

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Kam Kelly and Danni Griffiths to front new BFBS national breakfast

BFBS has a new schedule with Kam Kelly and Danni Griffiths lined-up to host the breakfast show across the UK. The new show will be available on the national BFBS station, whilst the current eight local breakfast shows continue as normal. George Ryland will move from the breakfast slot to present an all-new BFBS UK […] […]

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Unilever and Amazon more than doubled radio investment in 2023

Radio revenues are back in growth with the first quarter of 2024 rising by 5.2% compared to the same period last year. There was a strong performance for local advertising, up 13.8%, while national advertising increased by 3.9%, and branded content by 8.5%. Several advertisers significantly boosted their investment in the medium over the past […] […]